Distribution is pretty even by state. Percentage of those used varies from 20% to 50%, excluding several outliers. I don’t see ideological difference – Dakotas and CT are at the top and Deep South and Left coast are at the bottom. Geography gives a better pattern – NE and MidWest are doing better, Deep South, Industrial North MidWest and Left Coast are doing worse.
It looks like biggest problem is that states are trying to follow rigid rules – do Group 1a and only later 1b, including that, Ch’V, minority groups do not suffer. So, they are not opening up to next group until they deal with previous groups, including getting written permissions, dealing with those who do not want it. Some hospitals are scared to even give left-over vaccine to the unapproved groups. This requires advanced planning, so some states complain that Feds have chutzpah to send them vaccine without giving a multi-week advanced notice to plan everything right… Sounds like some leaders are seeing the light and opening up – FL, TX and now NY.
This appears to be discussed in, IIRC, Bava Metzia – when there is a river, we allow those who get water first to take as much as they want “l derech shalom” – instead of having government measuring how much everyone takes to make it fair.
State/Territory/Federal Entity Shots per Distributed (CDC, Jan 9, ordered from highest)
West Virginia 69%
North Dakota 68%
South Dakota 54%
Connecticut 53%
Nebraska 48%
New Hampshire 47%
Vermont 46%
District of Columbia 44%
Montana 44%
Maine 43%
Tennessee 43%
Iowa 42%
Rhode Island 42%
New Mexico 39%
Colorado 38%
New York State 36%
Kentucky 35%
Oklahoma 35%
Ohio 35%
Utah 35%
Texas 34%
Massachusetts 34%
Indiana 32%
Maryland 31%
Kansas 31%
Missouri 31%
Wisconsin 30%
Illinois 30%
Florida 30%
Minnesota 29%
Hawaii 29%
Delaware 28%
Pennsylvania 28%
North Carolina 27%
New Jersey 27%
Virginia 27%
Alaska 26%
Louisiana 26%
Wyoming 26%
Washington 26%
Oregon 26%
California 25%
South Carolina 25%
Nevada 24%
Michigan 24%
Arizona 23%
Idaho 23%
Puerto Rico 22%
Mississippi 22%
Alabama 20%
Guam 20%
Arkansas 18%
Georgia 17%
Northern Mariana Islands 17%
American Samoa 12%
Republic of Palau 9%
Virgin Islands 5%
Federated States of Micronesia 2%
Marshall Islands 0%