All U.S. Adults Can Get the COVID Vaccine. Now What? Intelligencer 2 hrs ago Chas Danner © Will Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images Will Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Adults over the age of 16 in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are now eligible to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. That doesn’t mean all will, or will be able to at least right away but full eligibility marks a significant new phase in the country’s mass-vaccination effort (as well as what is hopefully the beginning of the end of any confusion among Americans regarding whether or not they can sign up for a shot). The important milestone also arrives as the U.S. vaccine rollout passes a literal halfway point: According to the CDC, 50.4 percent of Americans over the age of 18 have now received at least one shot of a COVID vaccine, or 40 percent of the total U.S. population. One in four adults have now been fully vaccinated, including 65 perc
All U S Adults Can Get the COVID Vaccine Now What?
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At Pastor Tony Spell s Sunday sermon this week, he preached a different kind of message than usual to his congregants: Don t trust Covid-19 vaccines. I ll just tell you today, if being anti-mask and anti-vaccine is anti-government, then I m proud to be anti-government, Spell, who has made a national name for himself protesting Covid-19 rules in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told Life Tabernacle Church congregants.
He goes on to falsely state: If you have a 99.6% survival rate, why do you want somebody to contaminate your bloodstream with something that may or may not hurt you?
While 95% of Evangelical leaders who responded to a January survey from the National Association of Evangelicals said they would be open to getting a vaccine, Spell is adamantly against it. He s among the significant number of Evangelical Christians who have remained opposed to getting vaccinated for Covid-19.
Embed Hartsville resident Rick Bradley, 62, received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose at the end of March at the local Walgreens, saying this is not a summer cold or a conspiracy. He says some of his neighbors have become so used to COVID-19, that getting vaccinated has fallen off the priority list. Blake Farmer/WPLN
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Hartsville resident Rick Bradley, 62, received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose at the end of March at the local Walgreens, saying this is not a summer cold or a conspiracy. He says some of his neighbors have become so used to COVID-19, that getting vaccinated has fallen off the priority list.
Hartsville resident Rick Bradley, 62, received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose at the end of March at the local Walgreens, saying this is not a summer cold or a conspiracy. He says some of his neighbors have become so used to COVID-19, that getting vaccinated has fallen off the priority list. Blake Farmer/WPLN
Originally published on April 15, 2021 2:16 pm
There are more than enough shots to go around in communities like Hartsville, Tenn. the seat of Trousdale County, a quiet town dropped in the wooded hills northeast of Nashville.
It s a county that is nearly 90% white and where Donald Trump won nearly 75% of the votes in 2020. There was no special planning to reach underserved communities here, other than the inmates at the state prison, which experienced one of the nation s largest correctional facility outbreaks of COVID-19.
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