rate... oh wait, we have a lower rate of deaths per million than average.
Our current 7 day moving average number of new deaths per day is... 1.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/missouri/
But perhaps that means we need to ignore the facts that the vaccines do not stop the spread of the virus, nor to they make it less infectious. Perhaps in some alternate universe we would be smart to ignore the science that says that natural immunity from being infected and recovering is 13X more powerful than artificially induced immunity from vaccines.