Success of COVID-19 vaccines may be convincing people not to get vaccinated
The United States is expected to lose the target of the Biden Government to have 70 percent of adults vaccinated with at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine on July 4. Instead, the country will fall from the goal with just a few percentage points.
At present, around 66.5 percent of adults have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine. To reach a 70 percent target, around 9 million adults who are not vaccinated – aged 18 years and over need to get a vaccine dose for the next three days. Although the number of daily vaccinations has increased slightly in the past week, only around 1.37 million doses of vaccines given on June 30, brought an average of seven days daily doses provided up to around 945,000. And that number includes the second dose and dose given to those aged between 12 and 17 years, which is not included in the target of President Joe Biden.
Even though we will only miss the vaccine objectives, new voting data highlights how difficult it is to get small pieces of a vaccinated population forward.
While around 65 percent of adults polling said they had received their Covid-19 vaccine, only 3 percent said they were still planning to be vaccinated as soon as possible. The rest answered that they would “wait and see” (10 percent), only get vaccinations if needed (6 percent), or “definitely not” get vaccination (14 percent).
Not moved and vulnerable
The proportion of the crowd “definitely not” mostly unchanged throughout the survey, which began last December and was run every month by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Throughout the survey, between 13 percent and 15 percent of adults polls have fallen into the “obviously not” category. Likewise, the proportion of “only if needed” has fluctuated between 6 percent and 7 percent since January.
Meanwhile, the proportion of “Wait and see” has shrunk, shrinking from 39 percent in December to 10 percent today in June data. However, the remaining 10 percent may be more difficult than swaying. From the remaining waiting adults, 61 percent said they were worried that vaccines today would not be effective against the variant. (Mounting data continues to show that the current vaccine is effective against all variants regarding circulating in the US). And 43 percent said the number of cases was very low so there was “no need for more people to get a vaccine.”
Overall, the rate of case, hospitalization, and death of this country – mainly due to a very effective vaccine and successful vaccination efforts – seems to act as further vaccination prevention. Among all people who are not vaccinated surveyed, 50 percent said low case numbers mean there was no need for people to vaccinate. And among only those who say they will be “clearly not” vaccinated, 67 percent said the low number of cases made vaccination unnecessary.
Meanwhile, experts increase alarms for rising risks from the Covid-19 outbreak and surge in areas with a low level of vaccination. In a white house press direction, Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Center for Control and Prevention of the disease, noted that around 1,000 districts, especially in the Southeast and Midwest, have vaccination coverage of less than 30 percent. “This community … is the most vulnerable,” said Dr. Walensky. “In some of these areas, we have seen an increase in the level of disease. Because the Delta variant continues to spread throughout the country, we hope to see increased transmission in this community unless we can vaccinate more people now.”