Perhaps the most convincing explanation for America’s vaccination programme slowing is that because many of the remaining 33% of adults who have not yet had a first dose do not want one
ON JULY 4TH President Joe Biden stood on the White House lawn to declare that America was nearing independence from the coronavirus. But with covid-19 not fully “vanquished”, he called upon his fellow citizens to get vaccinated, telling them that “it’s the most patriotic thing you can do.” About 55% of Americans over the age of 12 have now been fully vaccinated, and a further 10% have had the first of two doses. But in recent weeks America’s vaccination rate has slowed markedly.
The second possibility is that the availability of vaccines has diminished in America. Airfinity, a life-sciences data company, finds that domestic production of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that form the backbone of the country’s programme fell from 2m doses a day in April to 750,000 doses a day in June. But that is probably because of the large stock that built up.
The third, perhaps most convincing, explanation is that the rate is slowing because many of the remaining 33% of adults who have not yet had a first dose do not want one. This is corroborated by the latest weekly survey from YouGov, carried out on behalf of, which finds that 19% of American adults do not want to get vaccinated and a further 10% are unsure about it. Just 6% of respondents say they are still planning to get inoculated and are awaiting their first dose.
As with much of American life, attitudes towards vaccination are divided along political lines. One-third of people who voted for Donald Trump in November say they will not get jabbed, compared with just 3% among Democratic voters. Indeed, among a clutch of socioeconomic factors that might explain county-level variation in vaccination rates, political affiliation has the clearest correlation. Counties that had a higher Republican vote share have administered fewer first doses of the vaccine .
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