Hot Spots Have Lower Vaccination Rates Compared With Similar Counties

Notes:

— Georgia, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia were excluded from this analysis because of insufficient data at the county level.
— Average county vaccination rates are weighted by population.

Source: Hot spot designations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (as of July 1-7). COVID-19 case data: Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Vaccination data: CDC (as of July 7), Texas Department of State Health Services. Rural-urban designations: National Center for Health Statistics

Credit: Data analysis by Austin Fast/NPR and Emily Pond/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Graphic by Duy Nguyen/NPR.