> Half the country is just stuck, focused on short-term and no attention paid to anything else and it's freakin disastrous.
Which half?
Which half?
Democrats: 88%
Republicans: 55%
Republicans who support party more than Trump: 62%
Republicans who support Trump more than party: 46%
Biden voters in 2020 general election: 91%
Trump voters in 2020 general election: 50%
Let's not "both sides" this issue. It should be obvious who is to blame for the US's less than stellar vaccination rates and it isn't well-intentioned but manipulative messaging coming from health officials.
[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-pol...
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...
>These demographic data represent the geographic areas that contributed data and might differ by populations prioritized within each jurisdiction’s vaccination phase. Therefore, these data may not be generalizable to the entire US population.
That page also shows the overall percentage of the population with at least one shot is 75.7% and yet no demographic group reaches that number except those over 50 years old. It seems clear that the CDC data is incomplete enough to not be fully trusted, but even if we do trust it, it doesn't do anything to disprove that the highest contributor to a person's vaccination status (besides potentially age) is their personal politics.
Regardless, if we're nitpicking data quality surely a random nbc news poll doesn't exactly pass muster either.
And like I said, even if we take the CDC numbers as the objective truth, they do not contradict my original point.
Idk if it's supposed to mislead or confuse, or if they're just idiots at the CDC that don't understand statistics.
They shouldn't be comparing percentages of the 3 populations, which is misleading based on different subset sizes.
They should be saying what percentage of each demographic has been vaccinated, which is what they insinuate.
They give 9.9% total and 14.6% last 14 days representative proportions for Black, who are 12.4 % of the US population.
And 61.6% total and 47.9% 14-day for White, who are 61.2% of the US.
These seem fairly even, but really 9.9/12.4 gives only 80% of black proportional makeup.
While White is 61.6/61.2= 101%
And it makes no sense to compare the 14 day subset percentage against either other number.
...and yet Trump himself is vaccinated. American politics is weird.
If you use actual vaccination data, there are other patterns[0]:
White: 52%
Black: 43%
Hispanic: 48%
Asian: 68%
When you view all things through a political lens, you'll miss important details.
[0] - https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-... - as of 07 September
"Percent of Total Population that has Received a COVID-19 Vaccine Dose by Race/Ethnicity, Selected States, September 7, 2021"
This doesn't disprove my initial point. Remember that Black people and Hispanics only make up roughly 30% of the population. They can be vaccinated at much lower rates than whites and still by only a minority of the overall unvaccinated population. Looking at all these numbers together, who someone voted for in the last presidential election is a much stronger indicator of their vaccination status than their race.