About 30 percent of Israelis have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, a rate that outpaces any other country. The United States is far behind, with about 6 percent of residents having received a vaccine dose, and countries in the European Union are off to an even slower start.
The data on countries with a current vaccination campaign was compiled from government sources by Our World in Data. Many countries, particularly those in the developing world, where governments have struggled to procure vaccines, are not yet vaccinating residents at all. Most countries are using vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, both of which require two doses. Two of the countries with among the world’s highest vaccination rates, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, are also using a vaccine developed by the Chinese company Sinopharm, which has not been approved for use in the United States or the Europe Union. The table below shows which countries have vaccinated their residents at the fastest rates since the start of their immunization campaigns, and which vaccinated the most in the last seven days. It also shows, at current speeds and immunization levels, how long it will take for at least half the residents in each country to receive at least one dose of a vaccine.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s valentine to New York City restaurants has left close observers of the city’s coronavirus data scratching their heads. Mr. Cuomo said Friday that “on our current trajectory,” New York City could reopen indoor dining on Feb. 14, typically a busy day for the restaurant industry. As the governor spoke, average per-capita case counts in New York City were 64 percent higher than when he announced an indefinite ban on indoor dining in December. Mr. Cuomo has said that the decision to open any part of the economy is based on four metrics: new cases per capita, hospitalizations, the test positivity rate and the rate at which people are infecting one another. That fourth measure, known as Rt, has improved for New York State since December and is now less than 1, meaning each infectious person will infect fewer than one other person. A state official said models used by the state put New York City’s Rt between 1.03 and 0.95. Gareth Rhodes, a deputy superintendent at the state Department of Financial Services and a member of the governor’s Covid-19 task force, said the important metrics are not where the numbers are but where they are headed — and that trends are all headed downward, both across the state and in the city. He said the opposite was true in December, when trends suggested a climb in cases and hospitalizations.
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WASHINGTON — As soon as this city began offering Covid vaccines to residents 65 and older, George Jones, whose nonprofit agency runs a medical clinic, noticed something striking.
“Suddenly our clinic was full of white people,” said Mr. Jones, the head of Bread for the City, which provides services to the poor. “We’d never had that before. We serve people who are disproportionately African-American.”
Similar scenarios are unfolding around the country as states expand eligibility for the shots. Although low-income communities of color have been hit hardest by Covid-19, health officials in many cities say that people from wealthier, largely white neighborhoods have been flooding vaccination appointment systems and taking an outsized share of the limited supply.
People in underserved neighborhoods have been tripped up by a confluence of obstacles, including registration phone lines and websites that can take hours to navigate, and lack of transportation or time off from jobs to get to appointments. But also, skepticism about the shots continues to be pronounced in Black and Latino communities, depressing sign-up rates.
Early vaccination data is incomplete, but it points to the divide. In the first weeks of the rollout, 12 percent of people inoculated in Philadelphia have been Black, in a city whose population is 44 percent Black. In Miami-Dade County, just about seven percent of the vaccine recipients have been Black, even though Black residents comprise nearly 17 percent of the population and are dying from Covid-19 at a rate that is more than 60 percent higher than that of white people. In data released last weekend for New York City, white people had received nearly half of the doses, while Black and Latino residents were starkly underrepresented based on their share of the population.
