Connecticut’s Vaccination Rates, Town by Town: Which Are the Bottom 5 Fully Vaccinated?

The five least-vaccinated municipalities in Connecticut each have fewer than 45 percent of residents fully vaccinated, according to data released recently by the state Department of Public Health.

Here are the bottom five:

1. Mansfield: 33.8 percent.
2. Sterling: 39.7 percent.
3. Hartford: 41.28 percent.
4. Thompson: 41.3 percent.
5. New Britain: 44.9 percent.

Note: The Mansfield numbers do not include college students, a large segment of the town’s population, who might have been vaccinated in their hometowns.

Despite areas of low vaccination rates, Connecticut is still the nation’s fourth-most vaccinated state, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 data tracker:

1. Vermont
   Number of people fully vaccinated: 424,493
   Percentage of population fully vaccinated: 68.03
2. Massachusetts
   Number of people fully vaccinated: 4,447,391
   Percentage of population fully vaccinated: 64.53
3. Maine
   Number of people fully vaccinated: 865,297
   Percentage of population fully vaccinated: 64.37
4. Connecticut
   Number of people fully vaccinated: 2,283,566
   Percentage of population fully vaccinated: 64.05

“The key point right now is to realize that this still remains, in terms of severity, a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” says Dr. Ulysses Wu, Hartford HealthCare’s System Director of Infection Disease and Chief Epidemiologist. The vaccine is doing its job. We all thought the purpose of the vaccine was tso completely stamp out and prevent disease. But its main goal was to take a deadly disease and turn it into the common cold.”

Here’s a town-by-town tracker with percentage of the population with at least one dose of the vaccine, according to state’s latest update Aug. 12. (Hover over each municipality for the numbers.)

Here's a look at the vaccination count by age group in Connecticut: