Holmes County in northern Ohio is a typical Midwestern American town.

The sloping countryside is peppered with large red barns. Trucks transporting newly cut lumber rumble through the rural streets. The scenery between the villages of Berlin, Strasburg, and Dresden is dominated by woods and lakes.

But, in many respects, this is a unique location: At a time when over 77 percent of the general population in the United States has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, just about 19 percent of Holmes County people have — one of the lowest county-level rates in the country.

Approximately half of Holmes County’s 50,000 population are Amish, a traditional Christian sect that eschews modern technology and farms land mostly in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.

According to specialists featured in local media sources, few Amish community members in the county have been vaccinated since they live an agricultural, communal lifestyle with faith and familial connections at its center.

According to Johns Hopkins University data, the United States exceeded one million COVID-19 fatalities on Tuesday, and as major side effects from vaccination – initially a primary reason of reluctance – are discovered to be rare, 67 percent of Americans are completely vaccinated.

However, despite efforts from a varied group ranging from local health clinics to the White House, more than 100 million people have not had a COVID-19 immunisation. According to health experts, getting all three immunizations now accessible to Americans is the greatest way to avoid COVID-19 hospitalisation and death.