{"id":1615,"date":"2021-09-30T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2021-09-30T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:41:50","slug":"is-it-true-that-tennessee-has-the-highest-total-cases-per-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Is it true that Tennessee has the highest total cases per population?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I read somewhere that Tennessee has the highest total number of COVID cases per capita in the country.\u00a0 Is that true?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Sadly for Tennesseans, it is true.\u00a0 In total and to date, Tennessee has had\u00a017,518 cases per 100,000 population.\u00a0 This is more than 3x the cases\/population in Vermont.\u00a0 For further comparison, the US as a whole has had\u00a013,062 cases per 100,000 population.\u00a0 For more state-level data, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\"><em>NYTimes<\/em>\u00a0tracker<\/a>.\u00a0 For my own interest, I plotted total cases\/population by % of pop fully vaccinated for all 50 states.\u00a0 As\u00a0<strong>Figure 1<\/strong>\u00a0shows, there&#8217;s a strong association between cases and vaccinations; states with higher cases\/pop have lower vaccination coverage while states with lower cases\/pop have higher vaccination coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 1. States with higher vaccination coverage have lower cases\/population\u00a0<\/strong>(rendered by me using data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\"><em>NYTimes<\/em>\u00a0tracker<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=723%2C730&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=1014%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1014w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=768%2C775&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=1522%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1522w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?w=1705&amp;ssl=1 1705w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-7.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0I read somewhere that Tennessee has the highest total number of COVID cases per capita in the country.\u00a0 Is that true?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0Sadly for Tennesseans, it is true.\u00a0 In total and to date, Tennessee has had\u00a017,518 cases per 100,000 population.\u00a0 This is more than 3x the cases\/population in Vermont.\u00a0 For further comparison, the US as a [&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":[17,47,46,64],"tags":[54,232],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-reduction","category-states","category-trends","category-vaccines","tag-tennessee","tag-vermont","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\/1615","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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}