This Is The State Where People May Refuse Vaccine

Health and Healthcare

Published: March 27, 2021 8:21 am

Shortly after the outbreak of COVID-19, the Census Bureau launched a vast initiative to measure the effects of the disease on Americans. It is called the Household Pulse Survey. So far, the results have been released in three phases, which began with the first study that was in the field starting April 23, 2020. The data is released by week

Each weekly report actually covers about two weeks of information gathered by the Census Bureau and other federal agencies. Among the questions asked each week is whether adults who have not received vaccine definitely will be vaccinated when shots are available. Nationally, only 51.4% say they will. That leaves a large number of people who have not made the decision or have decided they will not. The issue is a major healthcare problem. In a recent NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist, 49% of Republican men said they do not plan to be vaccinated.

Current data also covers Week 25 and includes the results of questions about income loss, the percentage of Americans who work from home, food scarcity, food insecurity, chances of eviction or foreclosure, difficulty in paying household expenses.

The work is done in partnership with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Center for Education Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Social Security Administration and USDA Economic Research Service.

In the section of the Household Pulse Survey called “Likelihood of Receiving a COVID-19 Vaccine”, the state that ranks lowest in terms of saying they will is Mississippi at 24.3%. The state that ranks highest is Vermont at 68.9%. The metro which ranks lowest is Riverside, CA. The metro that ranks highest is Seattle at 73.5%.

This Is The State Where People May Refuse Vaccine

State	Adult Population	Not Yet Vaccinated
Mississippi	2,189,670	24.3%
Wyoming	433,400	26.8%
North Dakota	561,016	28.1%
Montana	822,204	35.7%
Louisiana	3,431,432	35.8%
Oklahoma	2,916,436	36.9%
Tennessee	5,221,475	37.5%
Idaho	1,343,198	38.3%
Alaska	524,925	39.5%
Georgia	7,955,983	42.0%
West Virginia	1,379,576	43.2%
Nevada	2,399,457	44.0%
Indiana	5,015,550	44.4%
South Dakota	642,658	44.5%
Arizona	5,597,268	45.5%
Iowa	2,342,905	45.5%
Arkansas	2,246,527	45.6%
Alabama	3,717,378	45.9%
Kentucky	3,344,102	45.9%
Florida	17,085,385	46.4%
Ohio	8,822,539	46.4%
Utah	2,281,207	46.6%
Kansas	2,140,957	46.8%
South Carolina	3,969,123	47.9%
North Carolina	8,017,566	48.9%
Texas	21,356,906	49.0%
Michigan	7,644,458	49.6%
Missouri	4,617,880	50.1%
Wisconsin	4,438,719	50.4%
Virginia	6,472,737	52.6%
Illinois	9,546,424	52.7%
Delaware	754,637	54.0%
Colorado	4,454,718	54.2%
Nebraska	1,418,191	55.6%
New Mexico	1,589,574	55.7%
Oregon	3,302,727	56.9%
Pennsylvania	9,776,154	57.2%
New Hampshire	1,073,014	57.5%
Maryland	4,586,920	57.8%
New York	14,847,080	57.9%
California	29,939,021	58.1%
Hawaii	1,073,229	58.3%
Rhode Island	817,559	59.2%
New Jersey	6,776,822	59.7%
Connecticut	2,732,423	62.4%
Maine	1,065,620	64.1%
Minnesota	4,241,624	64.2%
Massachusetts	5,324,065	65.1%
Washington	5,890,357	66.5%
Vermont	485,485	68.9%

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