{"id":1521,"date":"2021-08-02T09:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:27:53","slug":"has-the-pace-of-vaccination-picked-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Has the pace of vaccination picked back up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> In states with high numbers of new COVID cases (I&#8217;m thinking Florida), has the pace of vaccination begun to pick back up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0Let&#8217;s take a look!\u00a0 Currently, the top five\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\">states with the highest new cases per population<\/a> are: Louisiana (89 cases per 100,000 pop), Florida (74 cases per 100,00 pop), Arkansas (62 cases per 100,000 pop), Mississippi (50 cases per 100,000 pop), and Alabama (49 cases per 100,000 pop).\u00a0 For comparison, Maryland has 7 cases per 100,000 pop and the US average is 24 cases per 100,000 pop.\u00a0 In good news, after having reached a nadir in early July, daily vaccinations have picked up across the country, including in these five states.\u00a0 <strong>Figure 1 <\/strong>shows the daily count of people receiving their first dose across these five states and in comparison to the overall country.\u00a0 As you can see, since hitting a nadir in early July, the number of daily first doses\u00a0received has been increasing, especially in places like Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas.\u00a0 These states have a long way to go to reach substantial proportions of population vaccinated, but the recent trend is positive.\u00a0 Vaccinations have indeed begun to pick back up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 1. Trends in daily number of first doses in the US and 5 states<\/strong>\u00a0(from <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccination-trends\">CDC<\/a>) red line= 7-day average<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?resize=723%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?resize=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?resize=768%2C416&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?resize=1536%2C832&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?resize=2048%2C1110&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0 In states with high numbers of new COVID cases (I&#8217;m thinking Florida), has the pace of vaccination begun to pick back up? Answer:\u00a0Let&#8217;s take a look!\u00a0 Currently, the top five\u00a0states with the highest new cases per population are: Louisiana (89 cases per 100,000 pop), Florida (74 cases per 100,00 pop), Arkansas (62 cases per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,46,64],"tags":[223,222,135,221,213],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-states","category-trends","category-vaccines","tag-alabama","tag-arkansas","tag-florida","tag-louisiana","tag-mississippi","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}