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A COVID-19 vaccine was administered to 86.9 percent of North Carolina's nursing and care homes as of March 6, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

This is unchanged since the previous data update on Feb. 6. The number of staff employed in nursing and care homes can fluctuate significantly, sometimes leading to a decrease in the total percentage of vaccinated staff.

North Carolina is the 31st most vaccinated state in the US among nursing and care homes.

COVID-19 claimed 68 lives in North Carolina in the week ending March 6. This is a decrease from the week before.

There have been up to 26,278 fatalities tied to COVID-19 in North Carolina.

Vaccination rates are consistently high across US nursing and care homes, much higher than vaccination rates in the general public.

A Brookings Institution report found even in states with most vaccine-adverse communities, such as Wyoming and West Virginia, more than 80 percent of the elderly above the age of 65 are vaccinated.

State	% Vaccinated	% Change
Alaska	93.4	-0.1
Alabama	84.8	-0.3
Arkansas	88.1	0.7
Arizona	76.6	-0.6
California	89.1	-0.1
Colorado	92.2	-0.9
Connecticut	93.1	0.6
District of Columbia	83.3	-2
Delaware	86.8	-5.8
Florida	82.2	0.7
Georgia	85.9	0.2
Hawaii	93.6	0.3
Iowa	93.4	0
Idaho	85.3	-1
Illinois	89.4	0.7
Indiana	86	0.2
Kansas	87.9	-0.1
Kentucky	86.7	0.1
Louisiana	85.7	0.4
Massachusetts	94.6	0.7
Maryland	89.9	1.7
Maine	92.6	-0.1
Michigan	86.3	0.7
Minnesota	93.3	0.4
Missouri	86.6	0
Mississippi	85.2	-0.1
Montana	89.5	-0.5
North Carolina	86.9	0
North Dakota	92.5	0.1
Nebraska	93.3	-0.1
New Hampshire	94.6	1.7
New Jersey	89.3	0.5
New Mexico	84.8	1.8
Nevada	76.9	0
New York	90.1	0.3
Ohio	83	-0.2
Oklahoma	85.9	-0.1
Oregon	87	-0.4
Pennsylvania	90	0.2
Rhode Island	94.9	0.6
South Carolina	86.1	-0.1
South Dakota	94.9	0
Tennessee	82.1	-0.4
Texas	82.4	0.8
Utah	87.5	-0.8
Virginia	88.6	-0.5
Vermont	96.5	2.8
Washington	89.6	0
Wisconsin	89.8	0.2
West Virginia	88.5	-0.1
Wyoming	90.5	-0.4