Who doesn't want their COVID shots

G. Elliott Morris who does data journalism for The Economist passes on an interesting polling finding. Non-voters are even more likely than Republicans to say they are "very unlikely" to get a coronavirus vaccine.

Citing polls from the research firms YouGov and Data for Progress, he passes on some suspicions for why this is so: 

• non-voters are less likely to pay attention to news and current events than voters. So they may have been less likely to see announcements of nearby clinics — or, perhaps more plausibly, to see messages from their political leaders urging them to go out and get their shots. 

• vaccination rates are lower in cities, among voters without college degrees, among non-whites and among young people, all else being equal. All of these things are also correlated with political activity.

• Voter turnout is higher among the elderly; so are vaccination rates. Turnout is lower in rural areas; same with vaccinations for covid-19. 

Not getting vaccinated correlates with disconnection from civic engagement -- not so surprising when you think about it. 

The current vaccination rate in this city is 69 percent according to DataSF, more than 20 points higher that the state and nearly ten points higher than the country at large. We're a very civically engaged place -- and neighborhood efforts like this on the Mission District's 24th Street make a difference.