discussion of several polls on vaccine hesitancy here (yes, a CNN data scientist):
some key points:
Most polling (polls are linked) shows that somewhere between 50% and 60% of Republican adults are vaccinated compared with 80% to 90% of Democratic adults. So a gap of 20% to 40%.
about 48% of White Americans have received at least one dose, compared to 41% of Hispanics and 38% of Black Americans. The samples sizes were smaller and some states report no data broken down by race. But it looks like a gap of about 10%.
About a third of the eligible population has refused to take a dose. But that drops as you go up the age ladder. Among the most at-risk, age 65+, from the virus (though we are all at least at some risk and everyone should get vaccinated), 80% are fully vaccinated and 90% are at least partially vaccinated.
While there is a Republican/Democrat hesitancy gap and a smaller (by percentage) black/white hesitancy gap, the Republican-derived hesitancy seems more impervious to consider any new findings: Among White adults who have not gotten a dose, 49% say they'll never get one, under any circumstances. It's just 26% among Blacks or Hispanics, who are more often in the "maybe I'll wait and see" crowd.
The high vaccination rates in places such as New Hampshire and Maine, both with a reputation of having independent and self-sufficient populations, often leaning GOP at least relative to the rest of New England, indicates that Republican-derived hesitancy can be overcome. How this can be accomplished isn't clear, but the polling data merely suggests it to be true.
Finally there is a North-South hesitancy gap. they don't break it down by numbers or state whether it is as large as the red state/blue state gap as a whole.
We've been referring a lot to "the unvaccinated" vs. "the vaccinated" in very general terms that paint over who, exactly, is in these groups and what might be motivating them.
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