An NBC News analysis shows far fewer teens are getting their Covid-19 shots in the South, while teens in the Northeast are surging ahead.
In the Midwest, teenage Covid-19 vaccination rates for the first dose hover around 25 percent. Just under a third of teens in Michigan and Wisconsin have received one dose, while less than a quarter of adolescents in Nebraska and Ohio have had the shots.
"Kids will be going back to school, and parents are back at work," she said."If a child is exposed, there is going to be a very practical problem of parents having to come home from work after an exposure, which is very different than when we were home." There are caveats when comparing states. Smaller states like Vermont, which has the highest vaccination rate among teens, only has around 40,000 teenagers. Therefore, the state has fewer overall teen vaccinations than California, which has vaccinated a third of its 3 million teenagers.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just over 7.1 million 12- to 17-year-olds have had at least one Covid-19 shot.
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