Giving Compass' Take:
- Heather Chapman examines how although one-third of rural Americans are now fully vaccinated, the rural-urban vaccination gap still increased last week.
- How can donors support vaccine access and confidence in rural communities to close this gap?
- Read about removing barriers to COVID-19 vaccination in rural communities.
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About 425,000 rural Americans completed their coronavirus vaccinations last week, increasing the fully-vaccinated rate in nonmetropolitan counties by about 1 percentage point over the week before and bringing the rural vaccination rate to 32.6 percent as of June 14, Tim Murphy and Tim Marema report for The Daily Yonder.
However, "The metropolitan rate of completed vaccinations grew by 1.6 percentage points during the same period and now stands at 41.7%," Murphy and Marema report. "That means the gap between the rural and metropolitan vaccinations rates expanded last week and now stands at an 9.1-percentage-point difference."
Read the full article about the rural-urban vaccination gap by Heather Chapman at The Rural Blog.