Rural coronavirus vaccination rate has barely budged for a month, still about 12 points below the urban rate

Vaccination rates as of Dec. 9, 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 click here for the interactive version.

As of Dec. 9, the rural coronavirus vaccination was at 46.4 percent, up 1.6 percentage points from mid-November. With the metro rate at 58.8%, up 1.8 points from mid-November, "the gap between the rural and metropolitan vaccination rates has remained a little over 12 points throughout the last month," Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder.

The Yonder's analysis encompasses several weeks because "data anomalies from the Thanksgiving holiday and adjustments in vaccination totals in Pennsylvania, Hawaii, and West Virginia make week-to-week comparisons difficult," Murphy and Marema report. "The rural vaccination rate jumped 1.4 percentage points last week, for example, but adjustments in West Virginia and Hawaii accounted for half of that gain."

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