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  • For the US counties there is very little correlation between COVID-19 confirmed cases and many demographic metrics.
  • The number of counties that voted for Trump exceeds the number who voted for Biden by over a factor of 4.
  • However the Biden counties contain more people.
  • In terms of number of counties vs full vaccination, the peak for Biden is between 51% and 56% culy vaccinated whereas for Trump it is between 31% and 36%.
  • As measured by the full width at half max the Biden peak is much wider (Biden 31-36% - 66-71%, Trump 26-31% - 41-46%).
  • There are a surprisingly large number of counties with % fully vaccinated below 16% (Biden ~40, Trump ~140)
    • This corresponds to  ~ 2.4 million people from Biden counties and 4.1 million from Trump counties.
    • For Biden the bulk of these counties are in Virginia (71%), followed by  Georgia (25%) and Massachusetts (5%)
    • For Trump the bulk of the counties are in Georgia (55%), Virginia (39%), and West Virginia (19%), followed by Colorado (2.5%), Nevada (2.5%), North Dakota (2.5%), Arizona (0.6%) and  Louisianal (0.6%). 
    • For Biden these counties contain ~2.4 million people, for Trump they contain ~ 11.7 million people 
    • A few counties have < 1% of their population fully vaccinated.

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Sources

Vaccination data per county

https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccinations-in-the-United-States-County/8xkx-amqh/data

Confirmed cases per county data

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