They are adding together the vaccinated populations of the blue counties and divide by the total population of the blue counties to get a percent. They then do the same for the red counties.
It is a mistake to market and direct vaccine reluctance to only rural poor.
“There’s definitely a lot of hesitancy,” she said. “I actually worked a couple vaccine clinics, and we don’t get the numbers that we want. It’s not that we’re not having vaccine clinics. It’s that people are not going to the vaccine clinics.”
At the center is a trust issue, Ms. Jones said, and people don’t understand or are intimidated by the science around the virus and the vaccine. One of the biggest hurdles will be convincing young people to get the vaccine, she said.
“I think the problem is that feeling of] invincibility, and the solution is to have one-on-ones,” she said. “And not as just government officials. Just as a concerned resident from person to person. And it has to be genuine, and it has to come from someone that the person respects.”