By Al Cross
Kentucky Health News
Getting vaccinated for Covid-19 is less popular in Kentucky, and in rural America, than in the rest of the country. But rural Kentuckians do a better job of keeping up with their counterparts in other states than urban Kentuckians do.
That's one way to look at a study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of first-dose coronavirus vaccinations through Jan. 31.
It found that 73.1 percent of Americans had received one of the vaccines, but only 58.5% of rural Americans had. The rate among urban Americans was 75.4%.
In Kentucky, 63.7 percent of residents were vaccinated, but the difference in urban and rural counties was less than in the rest of the nation. The urban rate was 68.7% and the rural rate was 56.5.%
Kentucky's rural rate was much closer to its national counterpart, just 2 percentage points less, than the urban rates: 68.7% of urban Kentuckians were vaccinated, while 75.4% of all urban Americans were.
So, while rural residents have been blamed for low vaccination rates, urban Kentuckians play an important role in that, too. Here's a breakdown of the national and state figures by type of area (click on a table to enlarge it):
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