America's most vaccinated state is Vermont with more than 83 per cent of residents 12 and over having received at least one shot, according to health officials.
The only way to halt the resurgence, health officials said, is to get more people vaccinated.
"It's a sign of, at this point in time, your vaccination status in the community," Minadeo said of the empty ward. "But I believe that's why we don't have patients in these beds... So this is evidence of -- you're in a vaccinated community, you're not going to have hospitalizations."of residents 12 or older have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the state health department.
Sosin said rural Orleans County, in one of the most remote and conservative parts of the state, has a vaccination rate of 70.8%. She said she was vaccinated in an Orleans County firehouse. "One really important lesson right now, as I think about what's happening across the country, is the importance of community and solidarity," Sosin said. "And I know that sounds kind of soft but we hear the CDC saying, 'It's in your hands.' This is a very individualistic approach to the pandemic. Yet Vermonters really highlighted the importance of community response and collective action.
Down the road at the Pettyco Junction Country Store in St. Johnsbury, on the lower edge of the Northeast Kingdom, a retired 67-year-old contractor named Bernie Timson said he will remain part of the unvaccinated state population. "There are more real Vermonters on this side than out of staters who moved to Vermont," she said. "A lot of older Vermonters like my husband they don't like change. It could be just because they're afraid of change. It could be stubbornness."At the sweltering Champlain Club in Burlington, bandleader Louis Prima's famous combination of "Just a Gigolo" and "I Ain't Got Nobody" blared from speakers as the swing enthusiasts switched partners.
"There's a different kind of energy here," instructor Maria Garrido said. "People are proud and aware of what Vermont has done.... I'm personally worried about the variants and surges but I really am proud of what we accomplished. I feel that for the most part we're able to get closer to normal and it's really exciting."
"It's sad for me that she feels that way and that she can't come in because they won't let her in," Rose said of his longtime dance partner. "I don't want to offend her and push her... I asked, 'Why don't you want to get the vaccine?' She says, 'I think it's some kind of game to make money by the pharmaceutical companies or the government telling us what to do.
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