In the United States, where nearly 30% of the population has completed vaccination with the new coronavirus vaccine, the pace of vaccination has slowed recently, and it is a challenge to encourage people who hesitate to receive the vaccine to increase the vaccination rate. ..
29.5% of the population has completed vaccination
In the United States, more than 234 million new coronavirus vaccines have been vaccinated so far, and more than 98 million people, or 29.5% of the population, have been vaccinated.
However, the number of inoculations per day reached an average of 3.2 million per week in the middle of this month, but then slowed down to 2.47 million as of the 23rd.
Several experts have pointed out that the background is that inoculation of elderly people aged 65 and over is widespread and demand is declining, and some local governments have actually declined additional supply. ..
It is thought that it is necessary to further increase the vaccination rate in order to control infection in society as a whole, but in private opinion polls, 37% of people hesitate to inoculate or are negative, and these people The challenge is to work with them to raise the inoculation rate.
"Some people see being asked for vaccination as a political issue as a violation of their rights and freedoms, making it more difficult to raise vaccination rates," said Perry Halquitas, a professor at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Public Health. doing.
On top of that, he says, "It will be necessary to make detailed efforts according to the area where people who hesitate to inoculate live and the social background."