Still, the recent wave of right-wing propaganda hasn’t clearly made the problem worse. It certainly hasn’t helped the vaccination drive that Fox News and other right-wing outlets are sowing fear about the safety of the COVID-19 shots, and about the efforts to distribute them. Read: America’s vaccine future is fragmenting Another 16 states are struggling to reach a rate of 50 percent all but one of those went for Donald Trump.īut there’s another, better way to think about what’s happening here: If the distribution of vaccines keeps slowing down, it’s not because America is divided but because we’re running out of people who think vaccines will save their lives. Indeed, the latest vaccine numbers show that 17 states have now provided at least one dose to more than 60 percent of their population-and every single one of them voted for Biden in the last election. The problem, it’s been said, is that we live in two Americas, riven by both ideology and immunology: In blue America, vaccination rates are standing up just fine in red America, they’re slouchy and exposed. Sadly, those horrors may be the only thing that stops it. If it continues, further horrors are all but guaranteed to follow. The Great Vaccine Decline now appears to be an ugly force of nature. As of July 12, it had fallen off by half again. With every passing day, the pace of vaccinations only seems to drag a little closer to the gutter. Read: America is now in the hands of the vaccine-hesitant Even statewide vaccination lotteries, described here and elsewhere as a great idea, turned out to be a flop. Demand for vaccinations shrank in July, as it had in May and June.
On June 2, President Joe Biden announced a frantic plan to reverse what already seemed to be an awful, exponential slide: At the peak of the country’s vaccine rollout, in mid-April, almost 3.5 million doses were being put into arms every single day, but that number had quickly dropped by half, and then by half again.īiden’s “ month of action” came and went, and nothing really changed or rather, the situation kept on changing for the worse. America’s vaccination rates have fallen off a cliff, and nothing seems to help.
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