Franklin County, the most populated in Ohio, vaccination...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

... rates vary by zip code from a low of 7% to a high of 82%. What a range!

And the lowest of 7% is at zip code 43210, the location of The Ohio State University!


Get vaccinated, OSU students! You'll be within a community that's nearly vaccine-free! Out-of-state parents of those students should be aware of the local situation too.

Vaccination rate in Franklin County stretches from under 7% to about 82%
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/vaccination-rate-in-franklin-county-stretches-from-under-7-to-about-82/530-d343dea7-92aa-40d2-b774-9803e1be2e64

Zip code data file that was last updated by Franklin County Public Health on 6/22:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mtXJ_5mh52MduXKKBURtgaIEx4FD-dq4/view

[2Gingersnaps]

1. Good to know,

still wearing my mask.

[Botany]

2. I'm 43202

Still what is wrong with these people? ... it looks like the poor areas and Grove City have the lowest
vaccine rates

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Over 62% for your area...

... according to the public health data that I found from 6/22. Surely higher now.

Ohio State students and employees obviously comprise the vast majority of the 43210 zip code's population, but the data is for the permanent residents there.

43210 is mostly white and lower middle class economically, with poor school test scores:
https://www.zipdatamaps.com/43210

[Botany]

7. I'm just about done with these no vaccine people

I don't care if you are white evangelical republican, urban, rural libertarian, Hispanic,
groovy hippie anti-vax air head, or a Trump voting dumb fuck gun lover can't they just
go someplace and die?

Giant Eagle has free vaccines ... I got my J & J shot @ the Giant Eagle in Grandview early
last spring.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Especially now, with plentiful vaccination openings.

The low rate areas are incredible to me!

I'm sure that the campus vaccination rate will be far higher, but the surrounding area is shockingly bad!

Maybe the campus needs a perimeter wall with armed guards patrolling it? I'm KIDDING, but holy cow!

I maybe would've expected such a low percentage within an Amish community, but not elsewhere.

[Botany]

11. Ohio State should demand some kind of proof (vaccine passport) to go to their football games.

Ohio State U was built on and is still based on science, education, and the common good ...
and nothing says "the common good" then being vaccinated.

For the love of dog we don't have hospitals full of people in iron lungs because of polio anymore.
Vaccines work and sadly so does the misinformation from Fox News too.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. I agree!

That stadium would be a super-spreader event during every game if they allow full-capacity attendance again.

As far as I know, the school itself hasn't required vaccinations for the students yet, unlike several other universities around the country. The unvaccinated will need to keep wearing masks, though, from what I read.

Ohio State is an AAU member like every other Big Ten school except Nebraska, so I expect more from them on science-related issues too.

https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members
AAU member universities—64 in the United States and two in Canada—are on the leading edge of innovation, scholarship, and solutions that contribute to scientific progress, economic development, security, and well-being.

[DownriverDem]

3. It's Ohio

which is a rightie state all the way.

[GopherGal]

13. Worse than that...

it appears to now be a trumper state all the way.

[luvs2sing]

5. 43214 looking good!

But I’m still masking.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Yep, near the highest vaccination rate for the county!

[JT45242]

8. Are the records sophisticated enough for students who have two mailing addresses home and college

When I was in college, I had a temporary mailing address at each school I attended and a permanent address at my folks house. I would have listed my folks house as my address when I got vaccinated since that is where the insurance came from.

Curious if thatis what is happening with a large number of the OSU students. Since they ask about insurance on the vax form, they listed the permanent address where the insurance comes from.

Not sure -- just wondering if this could be a 'data slips through cracks' deal.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Maybe somewhat, but the student body of OSU...

... vastly outnumbers the total population for that zip code used to calculate the percentage. I think it's calculated from the roughly 10,000+ permanent residents there.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Maybe the surrounding community resents...

... the "elitist" students and faculty so much that they're refusing vaccinations out of spite?!

Can urban universities be better neighbors?
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/policy/021021/can-urban-universities-be-better-neighbors
"In many of those distressed, disinvested communities, there was either a university or a hospital, or sometimes both, located either smack dab in the middle or immediately adjacent to the community — but for all intents and purposes, that institution might have been on Mars," Rutheiser, who is now a senior associate at Casey, said.

As American cities struggled with shrinking populations, job loss, poverty, crime and disinvestment through the mid-20th century, both Baldwin and Rutheiser said, universities were ill-equipped to pick up and leave. Instead, they adopted a bunker mentality that lingered for decades. "As I witnessed first-hand in Baltimore during the 1980s and 1990s, this defensive posture … generated deep mistrust, hostility and conflict between institutions and communities," Rutheiser said.

Reminds me of the portrayal of the Cutters in the film, Breaking Away, set near Indiana University.

With that movie ending in victory for the Cutters in the "Little 500" bicycle race against all of the smart-aleck college teams, of course.

EDIT:
And it's even worse for the population within Indiana University's zip code of 47405! Only 2.9% of them have received a first dose!
Link: https://hub.mph.in.gov/dataset/d0cb45af-c9de-40f5-9394-de367c17a7a1/resource/c496b384-f543-417e-912f-995caebf5fc0/download/vaccinations-by-zip-with-population.csv