Colorado rural healthcare worries about vaccine mandate
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As The Delta Variant Continues To Spread Among Colorado s Unvaccinated, Some Wonder If Vaccine Mandates Could Ever Happen — And If They d Work
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As in many parts of the country, the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Colorado has slowed considerably in recent weeks a particularly worrisome trend given current data showing that the state is a national hot spot second only to Michigan when measured by per capita hospitalizations.
Recent reports have suggested that vaccine hesitancy is particularly acute in politically conservative rural areas. But the situation in Colorado is more complicated than that. The latest numbers show that the low vaccination rates are generally in counties with right-wing voting records and small populations. But the differences in rural-versus-urban vaccinations are relatively modest, in part because of disappointing inoculation stats in larger GOP-loving spots, too.