It's been another 3 months, so I figured it's a good time to again break out COVID county-level, 2-dose, total population vaccination rates for all 50 states.
Again, I use CDC data for most states, w/state health dept. data for a few. 1/
ALABAMA: Fairly weak partisan correlation, mainly because the vaccination rate sucks pretty much EVERYWHERE. It does form an odd snake shape, though.
The graph on the right (w/out background graphics/etc) includes children 5-11 only.
ALASKA: AK has always been all over the place on COVID vaccination rates. Bristol Bay has supposedly vaxxed *over* 100% of its population which is impossible; this is caused by a variety of factors including error margin etc. I've set a max cap of 98% for any county's vaxx rate.
ARIZONA: A pretty strong correlation..but this is a case where the CDC's data is completely at odds w/@AZDHS data, which claims that both Apache & Najavo Counties (which CDC puts at nearly 100% vaxxed) are only around ~48% vaxxed apiece. Possible data overlap w/Navajo Nation??
ARKANSAS: Again, very little slope or correlation; again, this is because nearly *every* county is doing terribly at this point (Over a year in, any w/less than 60% of their total population 2-dose vaxxed is doing pretty poorly IMHO).
CALIFORNIA: The Big One, in more ways than one. A rather stunning slope & correlation...the R^2 is nearly 0.73.
This is also the only state I've completed the 5-11 yr old version for...and it shows nearly the same pattern. Sad.
COLORADO: Stunning. An even *stronger* R^2 correlation, over .076.
CT, DE, DC, HI, RI: None of them have more than a handful of counties, making a scatter plot kind of pointless, so I lump them together just for completeness. I've made a "no county is 100% vaxxed" exception for Kalawao County, HI which has only 82 residents, all of whom are 50+.
FLORIDA: Decent correlation, & the 5-11 yr old graph is just sad. Big outliers: Sumter County (makes sense since it's home of The Villages, the huge MAGA retirement community)...and Miami-Dade County, which I still believe is MASSIVELY overstating their vaxx rate.
GEORGIA. Like other Southern/Deep South states, Georgia has a fairly mild slope...again, mostly because the vaxx rate is poor in nearly *every* county.
IDAHO. I've heard conflicting feedback from different statisticians: Some say an R^2 isn't significant unless it's over 0.6 or so. Others say that when *both* the X *and* Y axes are based on *individual human decisions*, it's significant at a far lower level.
Idaho is 0.61 FWIW.
ILLINOIS. Looking at the 2nd graph, all I can think is that Illinois Republicans must really hate their children.
OK, I'm taking a breather for a bit; I'll continue the thread soon.
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Update: Unfortunately I’m having some technical issues which will delay the rest of this series. Stay tuned…
OK, here's part 2...for technical reasons I'm only posting the "full population" graphs for now. Hope to get the 5-11 yr old versions ready soon.
IOWA:
KANSAS:
KENTUCKY:
LOUISIANA. I still have no idea what the deal is with West Feliciana Parish, other than the LA State Penitentiary being located there.
MAINE. Yes, you're reading the R^2 correctly: Nearly 0.8.
MARYLAND:
MASSACHUSETTS. Both Dukes & Nantucket are supposedly *over* 100% 2-dose vaxxed; obviously that can't be the case. They're capped at 98%.
MICHIGAN, my home state.
MINNESOTA.
MISSISSIPPI.
COVID-19 has killed 1 out of every 259 Mississippians to date.
MISSOURI.
MONTANA.
NEBRASKA.
NEVADA.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
NEW JERSEY.
NEW MEXICO. Yes, the R^2 is 0.77.
NEW YORK.
NORTH CAROLINA.
NORTH DAKOTA.
OHIO.
OKLAHOMA.
OREGON. R^2: 0.772
PENNSYLVANIA.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
TENNESSEE.
TEXAS.
UTAH.
VERMONT.
VIRGINIA (warning: The CDC's vaxx data for Virginia is kind of strange, but the state health dept. dashboard doesn't allow for easy county-level export, so be forewarned).
WASHINGTON STATE:
WEST VIRGINIA:
WISCONSIN.
AND FINALLY...WYOMING.
And yes, the R-squared below is 0.8673.
Whew! There you have it: All 50 states, plus DC.
I hope to break out 5-11 yr olds soon (as well as only counting those < 65, since seniors tended to get vaxxed across the board last year).
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@RachelBitecofer Well, I haven't looked at 5-11 specifically, but it's pretty clear here. Notice how *both* the R^2 (correlation) *and* slope stopped climbing/leveled off around September, stayed flat for 2 months, and then started climbing again right after Thanksgiving?
If you estimated how many Trump/Biden voters have died of COVID since the 2020 election based on the national popular vote, you'd assume that the Biden toll was ~4.4 points higher since he won the popular vote by 4.4 points nationally.
HOWEVER, that's clearly not the case. 2/
If you adjust this by the 2020 election results at the *state or county* level, it comes out ranging between ~6K more Biden voters to ~17K more Trump voters having died since then.
📣 A *LOT* of people are ripping this new @NYTimes piece by @benjmueller and Eleanor Lutz for not mentioning, even in passing, the partisan gap in vaccinations & COVID deaths or the coordinated anti-vaxx campaign by the GOP/FOX News behind the headline. 1/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Now, maybe they were told not to mention that, or perhaps an overzealous editor removed it. I don't know what the policy is at the Times these days.
.@benjmueller follows me on Twitter, but he hasn't actually tweeted anything since mid-November, so in case he sees this... 2/
...here's the 2-dose vaxx rate of all 3,144 counties in the 50 U.S. states +DC, broken out by 2020 Trump vote.
For stats folks: The R^2 & slope have *both* climbed steadily since the day COVID vaccines were made available to all adults. 3/ acasignups.net/22/02/02/weekl…
In the post, I noted that in June 2021, the COVID death rate in the reddest decile of the U.S. was "only" 43% higher than in the bluest decile, but by August it was running an astonishing 7.3x higher in the reddest 10th of the country than the bluest 10th: 2/
For the full 6-month period (June - December), the death rate in the reddest decile averaged around 5.8x higher than in the bluest decile.
More recently I noted that the #OmicronVariant is a whole new chapter, with case rates running higher in *blue* counties than red ones... 3/