The states with the lowest vaccine rates are Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Wyoming and other reliably red states, according to the CDC.
The states with the highest rates – Vermont at 82.9%, Hawaii at 81.2% and Massachusetts at 79.8% – also gave him some of his most lopsided margins in November.
The cohort of states just shy of the 70% target are also Biden states: New York, Illinois, Virginia and Minnesota among them. By contrast, the states lagging the most in vaccinations – Mississippi at 44.2%, Alabama at 46% and Louisiana at 47.7% – all voted for former President Donald Trump by wide margins.from early in the vaccine process that showed Republicans and Trump supporters were among the most likely groups to resist taking the vaccine.Senate Republicans have set out to boost lagging vaccination rates in their states.
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