I’ve not been posting on a regular basis at Tool– apologies to you for that– but for the previous two and half years I have actually been collaborating with the American Nations model at Nationhood Lab , the proving ground task I started at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. Come look into our work there.
With federal vaccine and immunization plan uneasy, we most lately took a deep study the United States’ experience in the Covid- 19 pandemic , revealing plain and consistent local distinctions in adherence to public health and wellness suggestions, vaccination prices, and per capita fatalities.
The results , published Sept. 29, reveal consistent spatial patterns for compliance with remain at home guidance in the initial weeks of the crisis, per capital vaccination uptake in the middle of the the adhering to summer, per capita fatalities at the end of the summer season, vaccination rates at the end of the public health and wellness emergency in very early 2023 and, a lot of unfortunately, the ultimate death count.
The Deep South, where compliance and vaccination rates were bad, shed 505 out of every 100, 000 residents to Covid-19, or over a quarter of million lives. That was 2 and a half times the rate in the (largely booming )Left Coast (195 per 100, 000 and five times the price in Hawaii(part of Greater Polynesia) which, being an island, was able to mostly secure itself off and supplies a control sample of what may have been feasible. The article anticipates similar geographical variations will certainly happen in future pandemics and flare ups of previously contained infectious conditions as youth inoculation rates plunge.
Check out the complete article at Nationhood Lab for details.