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Last week we told you that if anything looked likely to roll back our newfound pandemic freedoms, it was the
Delta variant. Sure enough, it is.
On Monday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
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It may seem like a mixed message. After all, the county reminded people that “fully vaccinated people appear to be well protected from infections with Delta variants.” And as far as scientists can tell, that appears to be true.
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‘Door to door’ effort across the US to encourage vaccinations
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Thrown off-stride to reach its COVID-19 vaccination goal, the Biden administration is sending A-list officials across the country, devising ads for niche markets and enlisting community organizers to persuade unvaccinated people to get a shot.
The strategy has the trappings of a political campaign, complete with data crunching to identify groups that can be won over.
But the message is about public health, not ideology. The focus is a group health officials term the “movable middle” some 55 million unvaccinated adults seen as persuadable, many of them under 30.