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

By Steven M. Peters Published Mar 10, 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 216,273,632 Americans have been fully vaccinated, or 66.1% of the U.S. population.

Some states are proving more effective than others in getting their residents vaccinated. In Rhode Island, 81.1% 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 8, Rhode Island has received about 2,499,400 vaccinations and administered about 85.6% of those doses.

Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread. In total, there have been 339,137 confirmed cases of the virus in Rhode Island as of March 8 — or 32,075 for every 100,000 people. For context, there have been 24,008 known infections for every 100,000 people nationwide.

All COVID-19 and vaccination data used in this story are current as of March 8, 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	81.1%	857,538	32,075
2	Vermont	80.1%	501,491	16,713
3	Maine	78.9%	1,055,529	17,237
4	Connecticut	77.8%	2,780,691	20,288
5	Massachusetts	77.7%	5,363,997	24,279
6	Hawaii	77.2%	1,096,480	16,278
7	New York	75.4%	14,733,693	25,180
8	Maryland	74.3%	4,490,564	16,620
9	New Jersey	74.3%	6,616,592	24,409
10	Washington D.C.	74.1%	506,949	19,675
11	Washington	72.4%	5,456,338	18,980
12	Virginia	72.3%	6,161,221	19,337
13	California	70.6%	27,919,998	22,719
14	Colorado	70.2%	3,995,945	23,131
15	New Mexico	69.9%	1,465,056	24,497
16	New Hampshire	69.7%	945,258	22,058
17	Oregon	69.3%	2,903,210	16,625
18	Minnesota	68.8%	3,858,620	25,268
19	Delaware	68.3%	660,893	26,600
20	Illinois	67.4%	8,584,750	23,838
21	Pennsylvania	67.1%	8,598,089	21,564
22	Florida	66.7%	14,197,009	27,319
23	Wisconsin	64.9%	3,770,480	27,085
24	Utah	64.3%	2,031,346	29,238
25	Nebraska	62.8%	1,210,926	24,683
26	Iowa	61.2%	1,932,773	23,939
27	Arizona	61.2%	4,391,443	27,619
28	Texas	60.9%	17,478,365	22,892
29	Alaska	60.8%	448,558	31,587
30	Nevada	60.8%	1,844,722	22,569
31	Kansas	60.5%	1,760,907	26,360
32	South Dakota	60.3%	531,647	26,782
33	North Carolina	60.1%	6,241,557	25,020
34	Michigan	59.4%	5,939,765	23,668
35	Ohio	57.7%	6,749,773	22,751
36	South Carolina	56.8%	2,889,026	28,769
37	Kentucky	56.6%	2,528,731	28,795
38	West Virginia	56.5%	1,019,725	27,260
39	Montana	56.4%	599,406	25,513
40	Oklahoma	56.4%	2,223,334	25,981
41	Missouri	55.4%	3,392,850	22,847
42	North Dakota	54.6%	415,382	31,395
43	Indiana	54.5%	3,648,150	25,161
44	Georgia	54.3%	5,715,203	23,484
45	Idaho	54.3%	951,961	24,654
46	Tennessee	54.2%	3,669,784	29,720
47	Arkansas	53.7%	1,618,960	27,281
48	Louisiana	52.6%	2,449,607	24,992
49	Mississippi	50.9%	1,520,560	26,493
50	Wyoming	50.8%	293,707	26,903
51	Alabama	50.5%	2,469,598	26,324

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