Not unlike the rollout of COVID-19 testing, vaccine distribution in the U.S. has been a dismal failure. The virus continues to deluge states, closing ICUs and forcing patients entering emergency rooms to wait for hours before being treated.
A month into the release of a much-needed vaccine, some states are excelling and others appear to be completely lost.
According to CBS News, only about a third of all doses that have been distributed across the country - 10.3 million out of nearly 30 million - have been given to people.
Virginia and California have fared badly but Georgia ranks at the bottom of the list, administering less than 20% of the vaccines delivered to the state. California has administered just 26% of the vaccines on hand, but recently opened mass vaccination sites, including one in Disneyland in Anaheim.
On the positive side, West Virginia has distributed nearly 70% of all of the vaccine doses it received from the federal government, and South Dakota has delivered 60%.
Here’s a list of how every state is doing, based on reporting from the CDC as of January 13.
