BUFFALO, N.Y. — Erie County registered above the state's vaccination average by more than 1 percentage point this weekend, a first for Wester New York.
According to the state vaccine tracker, 22.1 percent of the state population has now received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Gray counties are underperforming, such as Niagara, Orleans, Cattaraugus, Wyoming, and Allegany.
Blue counties are average, such as Genesee and Chautauqua County with between 21 percent and 23 percent of the population vaccinated.
According to the data, 23.2 percent of Erie County residents have received one dose, making it the only county in the Western New York region to surpass the state average.