One-third of rural America now fully vaccinated against coronavirus, but rural-urban gap expanded last week

Rural/urban vaccination rates as of June 14, compared to national average and adjusted to account for vaccinations not assigned to specific counties. Map by The Daily Yonder; click the image to enlarge it or here for the interactive version.

About 425,000 rural Americans completed their coronavirus vaccinations last week, increasing the fully-vaccinated rate in nonmetropolitan counties by about 1 percentage point over the week before and bringing the rural vaccination rate to 32.6 percent as of June 14, Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder.

However, "the metropolitan rate of completed vaccinations grew by 1.6 percentage points during the same period and now stands at 41.7%," Murphy and Marema report. "That means the gap between the rural and metropolitan vaccinations rates expanded last week and now stands at an 9.1-percentage-point difference."

Click here for charts, regional analysis, and an interactive county-level map from the Yonder.