rate of people aged 12 or over, compared to vermont, admittedly a smaller. state up in new england, a very liberal state, - which has a vaccination rate of 77%. that tells you the us overall as such a big | country is a mixed picture. right now you have the delta variant surging, we have - more than 70,000 cases being registered a day, l and a third of those this last| week were in just two states alone, florida and texas, - where the republican governors have decided not to take more active measures to try - to suppress that spread. they re very populous states, but my own state, california, | the most populous state of all, has taken more . drastic measures. they re just about having masks on indoors again in places - like the bay area up north and in los angeles, - that has now helped i tamp down the spread. it s a mixed bag in the us,| but one thing to remember
vaccination, like so much else in american politics, has become politicised and there is still, apparently, i think if you add the figures together of those who say they won t take it and those who are resistant to taking it, 37% of republican voters probably not going to vaccinate at the moment and probably not going to vaccinate. it does cleave along. partisan lines like that, as you say, and we see - the states that have the lowest vaccination rates are ones we would call red states, i republican states. for example, the least - vaccinated state is alabama, which voted heavily for donald trump. i it has about a 40% vaccinationj rate of people aged 12 or over, compared to vermont, - admittedly a smaller state up in new england, a very liberal state, which has a vaccinationj rate of 77%. that tells you the us overall as such a big country- is a mixed picture. right now you have the delta variant surging, we have -
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