After a rocky start, California’s vaccine proliferation efforts have become so widespread that it competes with many countries worldwide.
California has distributed 10.6 million vaccines, according to Johns Hopkins’ COVID-19 dashboard. (This is more than 20% of the population older than 16).
Gavin Newsom quoted the statistics in a tweet on Sunday, comparing California’s vaccine deployment to that of the world’s most populous countries, including China and India.
If the state were its own nation, it would achieve sixth place in the distribution, behind the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom and the entire European Union, reads the tweet. California recently surpassed all of Brazil.
Given California’s population, 39.5 million people, more than Canada, for example, it naturally makes sense that California would have given so many vaccines.
But the fact that California has vaccinated more people than a country like Germany – despite the fact that Germany has an almost double population of California – is impressive.
This puts the myriad challenges of vaccinating the country with the largest population in perspective.
California is no longer the last to distribute the vaccine based on used inventory, but it’s still in the bottom lanes of Bloomberg’s tracker – which puts the state above Texas and New York, but far below Wisconsin, the state. which 92% of its doses on its population.
According to Johns Hopkins, California is also below average in terms of the percentage of residents who are fully vaccinated. (Three million people were both shot, but only one-eighth of the population.)
Nevertheless, it appears that Newsom is optimistic that the vaccine explosion in California remains one of the most powerful in the world: “Hope is here,” did he write in another tweet.