Vaccine-Hesitant Americans Believe Delta Variant Risk Is 'Exaggerated' By Danielle Ong on July 05 2021 1:23 PM A nurse in Bangalore, India prepares to inoculate a man with a dose of Covaxin vaccine on June 18, 2021; questions about a dubious Brazilian order for the vaccine have reached far-right President Jair Bolsonaro A majority of vaccine-hesitant Americans believe that officials are “exaggerating” the risk of the Delta COVID-19 variant, which was first detected in India, a new poll showed. The survey released by The Washington Post and ABC News found that one in three Americans polled are unlikely to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. Among those who expressed hesitancy, 73% said they believe the government is only “exaggerating” the risk of the B.1.617.2 Delta variant.