You can do a quick check between NY and FL....similar in population but radically different in all approaches to Covid...From quarantine to vaccine.....
Florida is a success story and New York is a disaster...
I changed my search and came up with this:
Due to the MLK Holiday, the numbers are a bit behind, but, I doubt the rankings have changed a lot. Obviously there will always be SOME lag between ANY entity receiving shots and getting them administered, so, I consider anything above 60% as very darn good. However, my tolerance for anything under 45% or so goes downhill in a hurry.
This list gives us FL with an administered vaccines rate of 39.30%, and similar population NY with an administered rate of 36.77% — advantage to FL, but not by a degree large enough to say FL is a success and NY is a failure. (I’d give both a D-.)
However, West Virginia IS a success, with an administered rate of 73.71%. CA is dismal at 27.55%. West V. is a mostly rural, “poor” state, which blows up the narrative about “limited resources”, “only the Feds can do it”, etc.
Of big population states, TX is best, coming in at 49.56%.
Overall, it is hard to spot a trend by demographics or per capita wealth. There may be a slight lean toward red states doing better, but, there are certainly exceptions both ways, good and bad. What is Connecticut doing right (or at least fairly well), or even KY? What is Alabama (worst) doing so wrong, while Louisiana is 8th best?
Maybe some ambitious FReeper can research how each (or at least several notable good and bad) state is getting shots administered. What is in common with the top 6 vs. the bottom 6 states, and a few in the middle, or something like that?