Hamilton County, New York - a small, rural, Republican-leaning county northwest of Albany - has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country, busting stereotypes about who's willing to get the shot. Hamilton County is mostly Republican, with 68 per cent of the vote going to former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election. 'We've watched nationally, this political fight over COVID,' Hamilton County Board Chairman Bill Farber, a Republican told ABC News. That was in large part because the vaccination push was a grassroots effort detached from political warfare, Farber told ABC News. 'Rather than getting caught up in it being a Republican or a Democrat issue, it really was seen as a community issue,' Farber told ABC News.

Source: Daily Mail May 16, 2021 18:52 UTC