Many conservative-leaning U.S. states and communities are nowhere near reaching the level of COVID-19 vaccination that could keep them safe from future outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant.
, more than three-quarters of Democrats say they’ve already been vaccinated, while less than half of Republicans say the same. A full 28 percent of Republicans say they will “never” get vaccinated.
Clarendon School District staff get vaccinated at Manning High School in Manning, S.C., on March 12. There are two reasons for this. The first is that despite several huge nationwide surges — including a horrific holiday wave that saw COVID deaths exceed 4,000 on some days — the share of the population in undervaccinated states who were actually infected is still relatively small.
And Mississippi is hardly an outlier. In fact, the most recent NIH antibody numbers are similar — or lower — across the other nine least vaccinated states: Alabama , Arkansas , Louisiana , Tennessee , Wyoming , Idaho , Utah , Georgia and Oklahoma .
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