Michael McGough and Hannah Wiley
The Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO â COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural adults trailed urban rates by several percentage points nationwide and in California during the first four months of the rollout, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The gap may be growing even wider in California in recent weeks as the shots become more widely available, state data show.
About 44% of California adults living in rural counties had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by April 10, compared with 50% of the stateâs adults in urban counties, according to a CDC report released Tuesday. The U.S. rates were 46% for urban adults and 39% for rural adults.
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