I've enjoyed following vaccination data much more than case, hospitalization, and mortality data. Something positive to follow regarding the pandemic, which has been a nice change.

US shots given are up to 28.9 million, well ahead of the 26.5 million test confirmed positive Covid cases through the pandemic. Next major milestone would be seeing those fully vaccinated (two shots needed for the vaccines currently approved in the US) passing the total Covid positive number.

Texas up to 2.2 million shots given which is behind the 2.3+ million test confirmed positive Covid cases, but will pass that number soon. Texas was an early leader in vaccinations but has fallen back to about average, or even behind, if adjusting for population sizes. Only 1.4% of population fully vaccinated - slow going.

The interesting number that really led me to want to post some stats was the male vs female numbers for those in Texas who have received at least one shot. Although fatalities from Covid are 58% male and 42% female in Texas, for those with at least one vaccine shot the numbers are 40% male and 60% female. Do you think this is just driven by the disparate gender representation in the medical field (vaccine group 1A)? I'd think for those in group 1B between age 16 and 65, who have a comorbidity qualifying them for a shot, men would outnumber women quite a bit. Just struck me as interesting.

I check the Texas site (https://tabexternal.dshs.texas.gov/t/THD/views/COVID-19VaccineinTexasDashboard/Summary) and Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/) every evening now.

Poster above is right. If you go into assisted living/nursing homes, I bet its at least 60/40 women to men, that's why the eligible batchelors always have a couple ladies in pursuit. Also nursing and many other medical professions (even physicians I now believe) are female dominant. Since focus right now is healthcare and >65 the more women sounds right.

PearlJammin said:

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Women live longer than men, so there are more old women out there.

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This is correct but the bulk of the shots, and the bulk of the difference between the genders as far as shots given, is in ages 16-49 (399K women to 223K men). This is why I was thinking one contributor would be more women than men in healthcare group 1A. I guess other possibilities are men think they are tougher and don't need, men are more scared of shots and/or vaccinations in general, the "women and children first" mentality, or men or lazy.

https://tabexternal.dshs.texas.gov/t/THD/views/COVID-19VaccineinTexasDashboard/PeopleVaccinated?%3Aorigin=card_share_link&%3Aembed=y&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y


But your answer was what I would suspect in ages 65 and up - but especially in the group ages 80 and older.

More women in healthcare

In the US, 1 in 10 people have had at least a first shot.

In Texas, it's just under 9% so running behind the US average - let's pick up the pace.

In Texas, about 1 in 3 of those age 65 or older have had at least 1 shot. This is great, but need to get population demographic up around 70% percent - I assume some just don't want the vaccine but other posts on this forum indicate still many waiting in this age group. 1 in 3 have at least one shot but only 9% fully vaccinated with two shots, so not until March when we see this number really get where we want it.

Recently Texas has been averaging around 130K shots/day. That's been slowly ramping up from the 90-ishK shots per day last week.

In Texas, in the under age 65 demographic, shots still heavily skewed towards females - still the influence of the health care group 1A I assume. Over age 65 group also includes more females getting shots but a closer margin and explained more by longevity I think.

hamean02 said:

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More women in healthcare

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Note to the single guys out there looking for a career.

wbt5845 said:

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Q: Why do men die first?

A: Because they want to.

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