National Capital region lagging behind rest of MD vaccinations

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Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Percentages are hard, right?

If you have a smaller population, you’ll get to a higher percentage faster. Let’s take a look at a couple of metrics. First, the raw number of vaccinations given:

Baltimore Metro Area: 35,318 or 1.28%

Eastern Shore: 6,863 or 1.5%

National Capital Region: 13,879 or 0.58%

Southern Maryland: 2.737 or 1.32%

Western Maryland: 2,497 or 0.99%

So the National Capital Region ranks 2nd in raw number of vaccinations given, but last in percentage of its population vaccinated. How could that be?!

Well, where do you think Maryland’s population is concentrated? Let’s look at the National Capital Region. It comprises:

Charles: 163,000 people
Frederick: 260,000 people
MoCo: 1 million ppl
PG: 909,000

That’s 2.3 million total, or just over 1/3rd of Maryland’s population.

Don’t you think it might take a little longer to climb up, percentage-wise, when you’re talking about a 2.3 million-person region than, say, Western Maryland, which has 250,000 people?

Don't you think it would make sense to allocate fewer doses to western MD given it has a much smaller population?

Have they gotten the same number of doses as the National Capital Region?

Gayles and the county council seem to be saying allocated doses are lagging on a per capita basis. But I don't know the cumulative numbers. Except I do know some of the hospitals in the more rural areas are getting more doses then the hospitals in MoCo, even adjusting for size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Percentages are hard, right?

If you have a smaller population, you’ll get to a higher percentage faster. Let’s take a look at a couple of metrics. First, the raw number of vaccinations given:

Baltimore Metro Area: 35,318 or 1.28%

Eastern Shore: 6,863 or 1.5%

National Capital Region: 13,879 or 0.58%

Southern Maryland: 2.737 or 1.32%

Western Maryland: 2,497 or 0.99%

So the National Capital Region ranks 2nd in raw number of vaccinations given, but last in percentage of its population vaccinated. How could that be?!

Well, where do you think Maryland’s population is concentrated? Let’s look at the National Capital Region. It comprises:

Charles: 163,000 people
Frederick: 260,000 people
MoCo: 1 million ppl
PG: 909,000

That’s 2.3 million total, or just over 1/3rd of Maryland’s population.

Don’t you think it might take a little longer to climb up, percentage-wise, when you’re talking about a 2.3 million-person region than, say, Western Maryland, which has 250,000 people?

Baltimore region has 2.7 million people and more than 2.5x as many vaccinations.

As of now, this region is a big outlier but could be due to people getting vaccinated in DC or other regions.