US states that recently saw some of the country's worst Covid-19 case rates also reported the highest number of new vaccinations per capita

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Thu, 2021-09-02 18:48 — mike kraft

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(CNN) US states that saw some of the country's worst Covid-19 case rates over the past week also reported the highest number of new vaccinations per capita, data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

Tennessee, which reported the country's worst Covid-19 cases rate, had the sixth-best rate of new vaccinations per capita in the US over the past week. The state's hospitals are "under increasing strain from the highly contagious Delta variant," Tennessee's health department wrote on Twitter Thursday, adding in a statement that the strain was continuing to fuel an increase in infections.

"Many hospitals are experiencing capacity constraints unlike we have seen during the pandemic," the department said, urging residents to get their shots and adding that most cases and hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.

Roughly 42.1% of residents are fully vaccinated.

Alabama, which had the second worst case rate, reported the highest number of new Covid-19 vaccinations per capita in the country in the past week. ...

Roughly 38.6% of Alabama residents are fully vaccinated.

Other states that are reporting some of the country's worst case rates but high numbers of new vaccinations include Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and South Carolina. ...

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