Americans show vaccine fatigue

Joe Biden perseverates on his goal to vaccinate not only the US, but the entire world, while he has a little problem at home: dwindling enthusiasm, as shown by the numbers.

As of January 18, 2022, a total of 209,312,770 Americans are alleged to have been “fully vaccinated.”  This is 62.7% of the US population.  [1]

Booster vaccines are readily available to the US public.  Biden, Fauci and Walensky have been urging people to get them since they became available nearly three months ago, on October 22, 2021.  [2]   Since that time, less than 23% of Americans have had a booster.  75,356,579 Americans or 22.6% are alleged to have received a booster as of January 9, 2022.  [3]   As of today, there are 334,003,597 people in the US. [4]

Here is a graph of that trend over the time of vaccine availability. 

(One might argue that children should be subtracted from these percentages. But there are stories of infant and toddler vaccination, so let’s look at the whole population. Also, it may be a bit deceptive to show 100% of the population in Fall 2021, because there certainly was not 100% acceptance of vaccines at that point; however, the graph shows the proportion of the whole population who chose, or felt compelled, to be “fully” vaccinated, and then the proportion of those who chose a booster, each as a percentage of the whole US population.)

No wonder calls for a 4th vaccine / 2nd booster have faded and Moderna’s stock has been tanking.  The vaccine peddlers can see the market has dwindled due to plummeting enthusiasm.  Pfizer, on the other hand, has some dazzling antiviral pills to sell you, as well as drugs to address myocarditis, which seem to have upside market potential, so they should weather the market turbulence.

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[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-percentage-of-population-vaccinated-march-15.html

[2]  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/23/covid-vaccine-boosters-are-now-available-heres-whos-eligible-for-pfizer-moderna-and-jjs-shots-.htm

[3] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/states-ranked-by-booster-rates.html#:~:text=As%20of%20Jan.,according%20to%20the%20CDC's%20data

[4] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/