Some States Are Vaccinating for COVID Faster Than Others, Here’s How Rhode Island Stacks Up

By Steven M. Peters Published Mar 3, 4:15AM EST

Some States Are Vaccinating for COVID Faster Than Others, Here’s How Rhode Island Stacks Up — © Joe Raedle / Getty Images News via Getty Images

The omicron variant pushed new daily cases of COVID-19 to all-time highs in the United States and underscored the urgency of the national vaccination effort. So far, an estimated 215,677,777 Americans have been fully vaccinated, or 65.9% of the U.S. population.

Some states are proving more effective than others in getting their residents vaccinated. In Rhode Island, 80.9% of the population are fully vaccinated, higher than the U.S. average.

Though Rhode Island is doing a better job vaccinating its population than other states, there are still significant quantities of the vaccine sitting idle. As of March 1, Rhode Island has received about 2,495,400 vaccinations and administered about 85.4% of those doses.

Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread. In total, there have been 337,972 confirmed cases of the virus in Rhode Island as of March 1 — or 31,965 for every 100,000 people. For context, there have been 23,906 known infections for every 100,000 people nationwide.

All COVID-19 and vaccination data used in this story are current as of March 1, 2022.

These are all the counties in Rhode Island where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).

Rank	Place	Share of pop. fully vaccinated	Fully vaccinated residents	Total COVID-19 cases per 100k people
1	Rhode Island	80.9%	855,078	31,965
2	Vermont	79.8%	499,921	16,568
3	Maine	78.7%	1,053,406	16,896
4	Connecticut	77.7%	2,774,302	20,220
5	Massachusetts	77.5%	5,350,298	24,189
6	Hawaii	77.0%	1,093,746	16,198
7	New York	75.2%	14,697,207	25,114
8	Maryland	74.1%	4,480,296	16,580
9	New Jersey	74.1%	6,598,782	24,322
10	Washington D.C.	73.8%	504,971	19,624
11	Washington	72.2%	5,443,025	18,811
12	Virginia	72.2%	6,147,710	19,236
13	California	70.4%	27,841,658	22,604
14	Colorado	70.0%	3,986,279	23,019
15	New Mexico	69.7%	1,461,194	24,376
16	Oregon	69.1%	2,897,802	16,519
17	Minnesota	68.6%	3,848,796	25,173
18	New Hampshire	68.1%	923,539	21,949
19	Delaware	68.0%	657,961	26,526
20	Illinois	67.1%	8,552,058	23,756
21	Pennsylvania	67.0%	8,579,266	21,523
22	Florida	66.5%	14,169,133	27,261
23	Wisconsin	64.7%	3,762,012	27,014
24	Utah	64.2%	2,028,026	29,166
25	Nebraska	62.7%	1,209,495	23,510
26	Iowa	61.1%	1,928,899	23,727
27	Arizona	61.0%	4,376,924	27,565
28	Texas	60.7%	17,426,894	22,808
29	Nevada	60.6%	1,839,899	22,455
30	Alaska	60.5%	446,122	31,304
31	Kansas	60.2%	1,751,920	26,295
32	South Dakota	60.1%	530,100	26,726
33	North Carolina	60.0%	6,226,604	24,880
34	Michigan	59.2%	5,913,506	23,589
35	Ohio	57.6%	6,735,880	22,698
36	South Carolina	56.6%	2,878,967	28,697
37	Kentucky	56.4%	2,521,585	28,527
38	West Virginia	56.4%	1,017,894	27,043
39	Montana	56.3%	598,218	25,021
40	Oklahoma	56.2%	2,217,212	25,877
41	Missouri	55.2%	3,384,105	22,772
42	North Dakota	54.6%	415,066	31,316
43	Indiana	54.4%	3,639,521	25,110
44	Idaho	54.2%	951,586	24,150
45	Georgia	54.2%	5,699,023	23,411
46	Tennessee	54.1%	3,661,353	29,604
47	Arkansas	53.6%	1,614,916	27,189
48	Louisiana	52.4%	2,443,839	24,947
49	Mississippi	50.8%	1,516,327	26,420
50	Wyoming	50.7%	293,046	26,813
51	Alabama	50.4%	2,463,862	26,178

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