Arkansas has delivered at least one shot of covid-19 vaccine to 37% of state residents and has fully vaccinated 29%, according to a vaccine-rollout tracking project conducted by The New York Times.
This state's vaccination rate is among the lowest nationally. The U.S. average is 47% receiving at least first shots, 36% fully vaccinated, according to data updated Friday.
The Times uses data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Learn more about the tracking project at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html.
Below are selected U.S. states and territories -- along with Palau and the Marshall Islands -- that are faring best and worst in distributing covid-19 vaccines:
• Palau: 72%
• Vermont: 64%
• Massachusetts: 62%
• Hawaii: 60%
• New Hampshire: 59%
• Maine: 58%
• Connecticut: 58%
• Rhode Island: 56%
• New Jersey: 55%
• U.S. total: 47%
• Georgia: 37%
• Arkansas: 37%
• Tennessee: 36%
• Idaho: 36%
• Wyoming: 35%
• Alabama: 34%
• Louisiana: 34%
• U.S. Virgin Islands: 34%
• Mississippi: 32%
• Marshall Islands: 27%
• Micronesia: 20%