Reprinted with permission from WalletHub
With 93% of unvaccinated adults saying they don’t ever plan to get the COID-19 vaccine, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2021’s States that Vaccinate the Most, as well as accompanying videos and expert commentary.
In order to find out which states vaccinate most, WalletHub analyzed the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 17 key metrics, ranging from share of vaccinated children to share of people without health insurance to flu vaccination rate among adults.
Vaccination in Texas (1=Best; 25=Avg.):
| Overall Rank* |
State | Total Score | Children & Teenagers Immunization Rates | Adult & Elderly Vaccination Rates | Immunization Uptake Disparities & Influencing Factors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts | 85.59 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 2 | Vermont | 78.57 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | 76.57 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | New Hampshire | 74.16 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | North Dakota | 70.30 | 2 | 10 | 27 |
| 6 | Maryland | 69.08 | 6 | 18 | 3 |
| 7 | Nebraska | 68.33 | 9 | 7 | 11 |
| 8 | Connecticut | 66.88 | 4 | 23 | 8 |
| 9 | Washington | 65.76 | 25 | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | Virginia | 65.63 | 11 | 13 | 13 |
| 11 | Maine | 65.32 | 15 | 12 | 6 |
| 12 | South Dakota | 64.27 | 14 | 11 | 18 |
| 13 | Pennsylvania | 63.75 | 13 | 14 | 12 |
| 14 | Iowa | 63.27 | 16 | 8 | 23 |
| 15 | Delaware | 62.24 | 7 | 25 | 17 |
| 16 | Wisconsin | 61.26 | 30 | 2 | 25 |
| 17 | Oregon | 60.41 | 22 | 15 | 14 |
| 18 | Colorado | 60.40 | 18 | 17 | 16 |
| 19 | District of Columbia | 59.84 | 8 | 26 | 20 |
| 20 | Minnesota | 59.05 | 40 | 9 | 5 |
| 21 | West Virginia | 54.28 | 21 | 24 | 28 |
| 22 | Kansas | 53.93 | 29 | 19 | 30 |
| 23 | North Carolina | 52.06 | 26 | 21 | 40 |
| 24 | New Mexico | 51.66 | 24 | 30 | 21 |
| 25 | Illinois | 51.63 | 17 | 33 | 19 |
| 26 | California | 48.77 | 36 | 27 | 22 |
| 27 | Tennessee | 48.40 | 10 | 40 | 37 |
| 28 | Kentucky | 47.69 | 32 | 29 | 34 |
| 29 | New York | 47.08 | 28 | 39 | 10 |
| 30 | Montana | 46.78 | 49 | 16 | 41 |
| 31 | Arkansas | 45.94 | 19 | 34 | 42 |
| 32 | Utah | 45.87 | 46 | 22 | 38 |
| 33 | Ohio | 45.83 | 41 | 28 | 33 |
| 34 | Michigan | 45.73 | 38 | 31 | 31 |
| 35 | Oklahoma | 43.66 | 50 | 20 | 43 |
| 36 | Missouri | 42.88 | 42 | 32 | 36 |
| 37 | Hawaii | 42.01 | 33 | 36 | 35 |
| 38 | Indiana | 40.58 | 43 | 35 | 29 |
| 39 | Alaska | 39.58 | 44 | 37 | 26 |
| 40 | Florida | 39.22 | 20 | 48 | 24 |
| 41 | Louisiana | 37.85 | 23 | 47 | 47 |
| 42 | South Carolina | 37.64 | 35 | 38 | 48 |
| 43 | Wyoming | 36.76 | 39 | 41 | 46 |
| 44 | New Jersey | 34.85 | 27 | 50 | 15 |
| 45 | Idaho | 34.71 | 37 | 45 | 45 |
| 46 | Alabama | 34.59 | 31 | 43 | 50 |
| 47 | Nevada | 33.40 | 34 | 49 | 32 |
| 48 | Arizona | 33.13 | 48 | 44 | 39 |
| 49 | Texas | 32.60 | 45 | 42 | 44 |
| 50 | Georgia | 29.95 | 47 | 46 | 49 |
| 51 | Mississippi | 13.11 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
Note: *No. 1 = Vaccinates the Most
With the exception of “Total Score,” all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that state, where a rank of 1 represents the best conditions for that metric category.
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