The country's overall vaccination rate has also increased since last week.
In Louisiana, which has the highest rate of new infections in the country, the current vaccination rate is 964 first doses per 100,000 residents, according to an NBC News analysis. In Arkansas, the state with the second highest infection rate, vaccination rates are even higher, at 2,128.
These are states with among the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates. Just over 36 percent of adults in Louisiana, for example, are fully vaccinated. The current surge is being driven by the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week the variant now accounts forDr. Steppe Mette, chief executive officer for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center in Little Rock, said the recent uptick may be attributed to more positive messaging about vaccination reaching the people who need to hear it.
Seeing others close to them get sick can also be a wake-up call, said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious diseases expert and an associate professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine."I hate for people to get sick, to wake up and realize that this hasn't gone, and that there is an easy tool in front of them that they can use to break this pandemic," he said.
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