Plus, celebrating Black History Month

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** How protected are vaccinated Americans?
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Data from federal, state, and local health agencies show how less likely vaccinated Americans are to be hospitalized from COVID-19 than unvaccinated Americans. How less likely? That depends on the location. USAFacts compared various states and metro areas ([link removed]) to see how this trend is unfolding nationwide.
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* The Omicron variant was initially detected in the United States in the first week of December 2021. At that time, unvaccinated adults were nearly 25 times more likely to be hospitalized than vaccinated adults.

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* Georgia's unvaccinated population, along with people who received one vaccine dose, were 10 times likelier to be hospitalized with coronavirus than boosted people.

* Data from hospitals in 12 states show that in the week before Christmas, unvaccinated people 50 to 64 were 32 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than boosted people of the same age.

* As of January 26, 210 million Americans — 64% of the US population — were considered fully vaccinated after completing their initial COVID-19 shot series. Twenty-six percent of Americans had received a booster.

See the rates in cities and states, including New York City, California, Utah, and more ([link removed]) .

African American data from W.E.B. Du Bois

To mark the first full week of Black History Month, we want to reshare this article ([link removed]) on trailblazing data visualizations from W.E.B. Du Bois, a sociologist and co-founder of the NAACP. He also lead an exhibit on Black people in the United States for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Du Bois and his Atlanta University students (now Clark Atlanta University) created these charts for the exhibit from government sources like the Census Bureau and the then-Bureau of Labor.
* One data visualization series focused on Georgia, the state with the nation's highest proportion of Black people at the time. Du Bois and company provided metrics on Black Georgians' education, wealth, and occupations.

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* Another series compared the US Black population to European nations. "…A comparison of the size of the Negro population with European countries bringing out the striking fact that there are nearly half as many Negroes in the United States as Spaniards in Spain," Du Bois wrote in an essay on the exposition.

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These hand-drawn charts are now housed at the Library of Congress. See more of them in this report ([link removed]) .

Americans and heart health

February is also American Heart Month. While heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, deaths are down from the late 1990s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributes the decline to improved treatments for heart issues, plus reductions in risk factors like cholesterol, high blood pressure, and smoking. Learn more here ([link removed]) .

One last fact
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Today’s last fact comes from the USAFacts Annual Report ([link removed]) . In 2018, 89% of combined government spending went to eight areas: Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid and SNAP, disability benefits for government employees, interest on the debt, education, defense and veterans, and crime and disasters. See the full graphic on page 15 of the report ([link removed]) .

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