Having said that, it's worth noting that both the R2 and the Slope appear to have plateaued, and have even dropped slightly.
This was bound to start happening eventually as the most-vaxxed counties start bumping up against their thresholds (until 5-11 yr olds are eligible):
Here's the same data in bar graph format. As of today, the vaccination rate in the bluest tenth of the country by population is running 60% higher than in the reddest tenth.
Items of Interest:
--Kalawao County, HI is still the only county with a 100% vaxxed rate (only 82 people live there.)
--Dukes & Nantucket, MA are both supposedly >90% fully vaxxed.
--Hudspeth County, TX is as well via official data. I seriously doubt this, though.
--Counties with >80% of their total populations vaccinated only have a combined population of 132,129 people.
--Slope County, ND has finally broken the 10% vaxxed threshold (71 out of 706 residents). Mazel Tov?
--Of counties >100K pop., the top-vaxxed are Marin County, CA; Sumter County, FL and Montgomery County, MD, all at 75%+ vaccinated.
--Montgomery is also the top-vaxxed of counties with more than 1 million people.
--Wayne County, MI remains the least-vaxxed >1M people at 46.7%.
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UPDATE: Re the racial factor: Here's the county-level COVID death rate since 6/30 for MS based on what % of the pop. is Black, according to the 2020 Census.
Note that this is based on what % of the *total* population is Black, not what % of deaths are among the Black population.
Could I also once again point out that Superman is literally a member of an alien species, which presumably means that human concepts of gender wouldn’t really apply anyway?
“Superman can’t be Black! That makes no sense!”
“Superman can’t be bisexual! That makes no sense!”
“Superman can’t cause time to reverse itself by flying around the Earth really fast and reversing its rotation! That makes no…oh, wait…”
Oh yeah: Superman can’t use a phone booth to change into his costume anymore either, since there’s no longer any phone booths. Thing change. You have to roll with it.
I really hope folks will actually read the full piece (there's over a dozen graphs & tables), but here's a couple of key ones.
First, here's the most recent breakout of COVID death rates since 6/30/21 by partisan lean. This is the graph which caused such a fuss in the 1st place:
8 days ago the death rate since June in the reddest 10th of the country was 5.5x higher than in the bluest 10th.
The author notes that Utah's COVID death rate ranks 45th nationally. That's true....since the beginning of the pandemic. However, my data specifically covers the period of the Delta variant, starting on July 1st, 2021...and Utah's death rate ranks 27th since then. 1/
Re. the author's final claim--that if I had focused on UTAH at the county level, the NY Times wouldn't have been interested--he might want to rethink that.
(I had to modify the bar groupings because there's no way of breaking Utah into even 10ths at the county level)
📣 NEW: @DLeonhardt of the NY Times cited my work which concluded that the death rate in the highest Trump-voting counties is several times higher than in the lowest Trump counties.