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Did the CDC issue a report comparing how states voted in the presidential election with their vaccination rates?

Friday, June 18, 2021
By Dana Ford
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There is no such report, according to a CDC spokesperson. The agency does collect and release vaccination statistics, and it's easy for anyone with internet access to compare that data with how states voted.

One statistic the CDC tracks is the percentage of adults with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Those numbers can be compared with how states voted according to election records. 

Looking at both sets of data in mid-June 2021, none of the states Donald Trump won in the 2020 election had at least 67% of adults with at least one vaccine dose.

But that can be misleading without context.

Several states won by Joe Biden also have relatively low vaccination rates in mid-June. In Georgia, just 52.2% of the adult population has at least one dose; in Arizona, it's 59.4%; in Nevada, 59.1%. All three states went for Biden.

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