Last week, the United States fell to last place in vaccination among G-7 nations. Until spring, the U.S. had been one of the leaders in vaccination rates, but as vaccine hostility set in among 40 percent of Republicans, the increase in vaccinations in America slowed to a crawl.
In the US, public opinion on vaccine mandates is sharply divided. It's a different story north of the border where the prime minister sees inoculation requirements as key to moving forward.
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The United States is not assured of being fully safe from the coronavirus even with its high rate in vaccination unless it extends the global fight to defeat the variants from the scourge, US Agency for International Development (USAID) COVID-19 Task Force Jeremy Konyndyk said Monday. We recognize that no matter how many people we vaccinated at home, the United States will not be fully safe as long as the virus rages on around the rest of the world and continues to replicate and generate new and potentially more dangerous, Konyndyk, who is assisting the Biden administration s global response to the coronavirus pandemic, said.
Just before a speech by President Biden on the state of the pandemic response, laying out what Americans can expect over the next few months, the CDC is expected to unveil new guidance on outdoor mask-wearing for unvaccinated individuals.