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As Covid Vaccinations Slow, Parts of the U.S. Remain Far Behind 70% Goal

July Fourth was not the celebration President Joe Biden had hoped for, as far as protecting more Americans with a coronavirus vaccine. The nation fell just short of the White House’s goal to give at least a first dose to 70% of adults by Independence Day. By that day, 67% of adult Americans had gotten either the first shot of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. If children ages 12-17, who are now eligible for the Pfizer product, are included, the national percentage of those who have gotten at least one shot is 64%.

News Author: 
Martha Bebinger, WBUR and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio

Biden Lays Out New Vaccination Path

President warns of Delta variant threat, outlines targeted methods to boost jab numbers

The president said that his administration will be working throughout the summer to "wind down" mass vaccination sites, while increasing vaccine access and uptake in a more targeted way, focusing on five key strategies:

News Author: 
Shannon Firth

Biden-Harris Administration and Primary Care

On June 11, the White House held an online town hall titled “Primary Care Providers, Health Systems, and the Next Phase of the Vaccination Rollout.” Part of the Biden-Harris administration’s National Month of Action, it blanketed local TV, radio and social media to educate Americans about the COVID vaccines

Why America’s Vaccine Holdouts Haven’t Gotten a COVID-19 Shot, in Their Own Words

This is the kind of person the Biden administration needs to persuade: “I’m afraid of dying just getting the shot”

[A] new Morning Consult/Politico survey suggests many unvaccinated adults aren’t budging.

The survey asked 744 unvaccinated adults to describe in their own words why they’re skipping the shots. Roughly a quarter of respondents in the June 25-28 survey said they were worried about the safety or efficacy of the shots and another quarter said they didn’t trust the vaccine development process, findings that align with Morning Consult’s ongoing survey of vaccine willingness

News Author: 
Gaby Galvin

Health care, public health and business leaders call for formation of Vaccine Confidence Leagues to build vaccine confidence and increase uptake at the community level

Get the Medications Right™ Institute’s National Task Force releases final recommendations to strengthen the nations’ vaccination systems

Tysons Corner, VA – June 15, 2021 – Ending the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic requires widespread vaccination, but as the immunization rate slows across the United States, it is unclear whether President Biden’s goal of having all U.S. adults get at least one shot of the vaccine by July 4 can be achieved. Surveys suggest that fully a third of U.S. adults do not want to be vaccinated.

There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates

States Biden Won Have The Highest Adult Vaccination Rates

Less than a month remains until the Fourth of July, which was President Biden's goal for 70% of American adults to have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

It looks like it's going to be a stretch to get there.

As of Tuesday, nearly 64% of U.S. adults have had at least one shot, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

News Author: 
Domenico Montanaro

Drop in childhood vaccinations during pandemic may raise risk of outbreaks of other diseases when schools reopen, CDC says

The American Academy of Pediatrics, a PCC Executive Member, calls on parents to get their children up to date on shots before they return to class.

Routine childhood vaccinations dropped dramatically during the early months of the pandemic, and although those began rebounding last summer, many children and adolescents are still behind on shots, according to a federal health report released Thursday.

News Author: 
Lena H. Sun

The partisan divide in vaccinations is starker than you realize

The effort to reach the unvaccinated has become the latest political fault line in the Covid response.

The partisan divide in Covid-19 vaccinations is becoming starker as the nation inches toward President Joe Biden’s goal of providing at least one shot to 70 percent of adults by July 4, complicating efforts to reach the unvaccinated in areas still vulnerable to virus outbreaks.

News Author: 
DAN GOLDBERG and ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN

Covid Was a Tipping Point for Telehealth. If Some Have Their Way, Virtual Visits Are Here to Stay.

As the covid crisis wanes and life approaches normal across the U.S., health industry leaders and many patient advocates are pushing Congress and the Biden administration to preserve the pandemic-fueled expansion of telehealth that has transformed how millions of Americans see the doctor.

The broad effort reaches across the nation’s diverse health care system, bringing together consumer groups with health insurers, state Medicaid officials, physician organizations and telehealth vendors.

News Author: 
Noam Levey

Should mental health be a valid reason for missing school? Many say yes.

Montgomery County (Maryland) leaders are taking steps to add mental health to the list of valid reasons to be absent from school, saying that the move is especially important after the inordinate toll of the pandemic.

News Author: 
Donna St. George

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