Small Republican NY county has one of highest vax rates in US

An upstate New York county has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country.

Some 65 percent of Hamilton County residents are fully vaccinated against the virus, way better than the 36 percent of people nationwide and 41.6 percent across the Empire State, according to an ABC analysis of figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rates fly in the face of polls that say Republicans are less willing to get the shot — in 2020, 68 percent of residents in the county voted for Donald Trump over Joe Biden, the report said.