06/08/2021

President's July 4 Vaccination Goal Expected to Fall Short

The reason: States that voted red

The goal was ambitious but not complicated. President Biden wanted at least 70 percent of American adults to have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine by July 4, moving the country closer to the point at which the virus couldn't spread easily.

It seems increasingly likely that we won't hit that mark. And if we don't, it will probably be because of states that voted red in November.

For the first few months of the vaccine rollout, there wasn't a big divide between Biden states and those that voted for former president Donald Trump in terms of the uptake of the coronavirus vaccine. During that period, most of the vaccine rollout was targeted at older Americans, a group that has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the disease the virus causes.

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