Vermont sees the biggest surge in COVID cases despite having the country’s highest vaccination rate – By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez (Fortune) / Aug 12 2021
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Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country and is outpacing the national vaccination rate, even as COVID-19 cases have spiked in the state in recent weeks.
Cases in the state rose 245% in the past two weeks, according to a Fortune analysis of New York Times data, the highest increase in the country over that period, as the Delta variant spreads. Despite the increase in cases, many residents of the New England state have been protected by vaccines. Vermont has the highest vaccination rate of any state, with 68% of its population fully vaccinated, almost 20 percentage points higher than the 50% of Americans that have been fully vaccinated in total, according to New York Times data.
Because of this, COVID cases in Vermont have been relatively low, and the surge is coming from a lower starting point than many other areas of the country. The state still is among those with the lowest cases per capita (13 per 100,000 people, compared with 120 in Louisiana and 93 in Florida, two of the states with the highest rates of infection).
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