Vermont has the nation’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rate, but daily cases in the state have surpassed their all-time high from January, the New York Times reported.
Cases in Vermont, already at record levels for the state, just keep on rising, even with the highest vaccination rate in the country — 89% of the 18+ population is at least partially vaccinated, 88% of 12+ & ~100% of seniors
Anyone asked Fauci why he was so wrong about 50%? pic.twitter.com/q5EIfChw2W
— IM (@ianmSC) September 29, 2021
September was Vermont’s second-worst month for COVID-19 deaths and the state recorded eight deaths in one day, the worst on record.
Average deaths and hospitalizations, however, have remained slightly lower than their peak levels last winter.
Seventy-eight percent of Vermont’s entire population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 shot, and 70% has been fully inoculated.
When excluding children younger than 12, the percentage of those who have received both doses rises to 79%. Eighty-eight percent have received at least one shot.
Nearly 100% of seniors aged 65 years and older have taken one shot while 96% have taken both doses.
The Vermont Health Department and State Epidemiologist Patsy Kelso said that vaccinated Vermonters constituted four-in-ten new COVID-19 cases.
Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, promised to lift the Vermont’s emergency restrictions when at least 80% of the state’s citizen had received one dose of a COVID-19 shot.
“We can’t be in a perpetual state of emergency,” he said.
He has not indicated that he plans to reimpose emergency orders.
