Reports of low Covid vaccine uptake have mainly come from the Continent in recent months – largely due to fears about the AstraZeneca vaccine’s links to blood clots. But vaccine hesitancy now seems to be spreading in America, where a number of states say they are running out of people willing to take a Covid vaccine.
On Tuesday, Federal health agencies called for the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine (which has already been given to nearly seven million Americans) to be paused immediately due to some recipients developing rare blood clotting disorders within two weeks of being vaccinated. The vaccine is also under investigation by Europe’s medicines regulator. Cases of blood clotting among those who have received the J&J vaccine are likely to have contributed to vaccination refusal rates in the US, in the same way that similar fears regarding the AZ vaccine have added complications to Europe’s rollout. The Mail has the story.
The U.S. supply of Covid vaccines is beginning to rapidly outpace demand, as appointments remain unfilled across the country and states say they are running out of people willing to get the shots.
As of Friday, 49% of U.S. adults had received at least one vaccine dose…
Health officials have suggested that the country needs to achieve a vaccination rate of 70% to 90% to achieve coronavirus herd immunity, the point at which a virus no longer circulates freely because it cannot find susceptible hosts…
On Friday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued a desperate plea for residents to get vaccinated, as clinics in the state reported hundreds, if not thousands, of available appointments that were not being filled each day…
She said the fact that nearly half of Pennsylvania’s nursing home workers have declined the vaccine is further evidence of “how far we have to go and how much of a challenge overcoming this vaccine hesitancy will be in the near future”.
Vaccination rates are so low in some states that their leaders are considering various “creative” ways of increasing uptake.
Louisiana has gotten creative in its vaccine push, with brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event, and doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks…
Alaska’s health department is weighing creating vaccine clinics in airports.
Ohio’s health agency asked vaccine providers to develop sites near bus stops and to consider offering mobile immunization services.
In Connecticut, the health department launched an effort to call residents directly to schedule appointments.
Mississippi is working with local organizations to bring vaccinations directly to homebound elderly people.
Alabama’s health agency surveyed vaccine reluctance to determine how it should craft messaging to appeal to the hesitant.
Polling in the States suggests that only around 60% of Americans would like to receive a vaccine right away. Others would prefer to “wait and see”.
A recent survey from KFF found that just 61% of adults say they have either received the vaccine or want to as soon as possible.
Another 17% want to “wait and see” while 13% said they would “definitely not” get vaccinated. 7% said they would only get the shot if required.
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How long before the lunatics/marxists at CNN, NYT etc. blame it all on something Trump said?
Can’t we just forget that dumb egotistic con-man? We’ve got one of our own here.
Boris is anti-vaxx, pro lockdown. you’re gonna wind up with endless vaccine AND lockdown, you fool. try to use your head, if you have one.
Some good news – CNN ratings are down 50% since Biden took office.
Unfortunately CNN is a CIA front that will be funded from one of Langley’s bottomless black budgets.
Every single Best Rated comment and all bar one Worst Rated are from US readers.
Must say something about the state of the American MSM if they come to the Daily Mail for their news.
No, it’s just that US readers were accessing articles in the evening and night in most states, whereas in the UK most of us were fast asleep.
Its not the usual pattern when I enjoy myself up and down ticking comments at the Mail about 4 am, best and worst totals are accumulated over several hours.
The Daily Mail has a US-based version majoring on US issues, and timed for the readers in different zones. They will get US based stories first.
The marxists at the CIA funnel establishment media outlet?
I dunno, isn’t it time to stop using this word in such scenarios? It’s become worse than meaningless when people use it like this
Well that shows there are more thinking people in the US than the U.K. where the masses are all rushing obediently to get their jabs
I think following the electoral events of November 2020 to January 2021, there are many more people in the US aware of the extent to which just about everything broadcast in the mainstream media is misleading or downright untruthful.
This is great news. Most people don’t need to take this vaccine because their risk of death or even serious illness from COVID-19 is extremely low. The vaccines themselves by the manufacturers’ own admission may not prevent infection or transmission, the most they may achieve is a lessening of symptoms.
And these vaccines have not yet completed their clinical trials; in most cases they will not do so until 2023; there is therefore no long-term safety data; the vaccines have not been tested for incompatibility against other commonly prescribed medicines, have resulted directly or indirectly in the subsequent deaths of 1 in 45,000 people vaccinated in the UK according to the government’s own safety reporting system, and two of the vaccines have already been banned from use in multiple countries.
Let’s hope this reluctance to take the vaccines in the US spreads everywhere. Boris is wrong about most things but was right about one thing – vaccines are not the solution here (and neither are lockdowns). Herd immunity, focused protection and improved treatments are the solution.
It’ll be interesting to see reluctance increases, roughly in line with the ONS hesitancy survey, as they work down the list of age groups.
Well, I’d rather have a brass band than a Fascist bully.
The bully comes after the brass band.
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-jab
“The ship’s takin’ on water capt’n!”
I think it is misleading to suggest that ‘vaccine hesitancy’ in countries other than the UK is largely because of concerns about the Oxford AZ vaccine. That may well have influenced a small number of people but the reality is that the UK population is very much out on its own globally in terms of enthusiasm for being ‘jabbed’ with any vaccine, not just the these ‘covid’ ones. People in other parts of Europe have long been much more inclined to view invasive medical procedures with a more critical and perspicacious eye than in the UK.
vaccine appears to be doing a fine job here. A much better job than any lockdown. I’m fed up with all the anti-science chumps and gormless anti-vaxxers, Boris is one, says only lockdowns work. When will stupid people wake up, it’s either vaccine or lockdown or both. That’s where you’re heading, with the dumb ideas. You’ll get iterations of both… forever . Good luck with that, but I’m out.
‘…but I’m out.’ Literally or just until you’re on duty again?
I notice how you don’t include data from last April when we had a similar decline with no vaccine.
But wevs. Don’t let facts and logic destroy your narrative.
Not much of a scientist, are you? What is this a graph of? Boris’s daily payments from Bill Gates? Where are the labels and he title? This is a GCSE level effort. More suitable for a by-election leaflet promoting a low grade political candidate or or for a presentation by the Chief Medical Officer than a serious scientific audience. I assume this is the “cases” or rather the “positive tests” graph. Which is meaningless without considering how many tests have been performed, or how many of them are false positives. A better graph would have been the “share of tests which are positive” graph. And, as others have pointed out, this graph fails to show the precipitous drop in deaths and infections last spring, when there were NO vaccines available (and when masks were not routinely worn, btw). And in any case the vaccines, by the manufacturers own admissuons, don’t prevent infection. What you really need is a graph relating to the severity of symptoms being suffered. Or even the deaths graph, although that actually shows an increase in deaths coincident with the vax rollout. The decline in infection is primarily down to seasonality and the virus running out of… Read more »
The spike in the graph, unusually coming at a time when “cases” were falling, just happens to coincide with the start of the rollout of the “vaccines”. Incredible coincidence.
Yes. The large peak is actually the ‘sum’ of 2 peaks about 2 to 3 weeks apart. One is declining – the other increasing. This produces the single large peak in January.
The 2 peaks coincide with over 80s vaccine rollout in the community and vaccine rollout in Care homes. One is later than the other. I can’t remember which
Bill Maher is even waking up
https://youtu.be/Qp3gy_CLXho
Have we seen anything close to this here in the UK msm???
I didn’t think Maher was too bad until he became a mindless Trump-basher.
He seems to have snapped out of it, but still.
Whatever one thinks of Trump it’s probably just as well he is out of the way since he is, was, a distraction from the main issues.
He does seem to be very pro vaccine, although as always with him it’s hard to know if this is a firmly held belief or just a momentary negotiating position (and I say that as a Trump enthusiast in the main).
Yep – Trump makes his thought processes public.
He originally wanted Kennedy to lead an investigation into vaccine injuries but was apparently persuaded by Gates that it would be a bad idea.
We can’t be sure what his final position would have been but I doubt he would have been a fully committed pro-vaxxer.
He’s certainly become less of a problem for the globalists. His removal has cleared the path for them pretty effectively.
Had to tap out half way, yikes, still awful.
Besides I’m off to get my arms plaster cast for my asymptomatic broken bones.
Make sure you stay 2 metres away from everyone, lest you cause an epidemic of asymptomatic broken bones. Maybe wear a mask over your unnecessary plaster cast?
this is great news . i just w ish i could meet more of my wont ever get vaccine fellow americans . im the only one of peolple i know aside from about 5 or 6 friends and relatives all over not just here .every one else totally brainwashed . is why so glad to read comments here and articles like this
This is great news. An experimental biological with minimal safety and efficacy data. Thank goodness people are finally waking up. AZ, J&J suspended, Merck just gave up and stopped even trying to make a “vaccine”, who is next to be suspended. Read the CDC VAERS. An eye watering read and plenty of adverse events and deaths with Moderna and Pfizer. Sputnik anyone?
A vax rate of 70-90% to achieve herd immunity on an injection that isn’t even a vaccine and doesn’t stop you getting it.
So many holes you could drive a fricken truck through it.
Lockdown Sceptics writers should avoid the term “vaccine hesitancy”, which is a psy ops phrase intended to suggest cowardice and confusion, and use the truthful phrase, vaccine refusal. Better, experimental vaccine refusal.