Since Joe Biden announced in April that 90% of American adults are eligible, most adults can get the COVID-19 vaccine. The situation with vaccines is starting to be good, but has started to decline significantly in the past few months.
On April 23, the government announced the suspension of the distribution of Johnson & Johnson vaccines because they may cause some extremely rare complications. Since then, the hesitation of vaccines has really become excessive, and the rate has never recovered.
However, authorities now point to a large number of Republicans who have not been vaccinated and hesitant to vaccines, and claim that this is a partisan issue. We have discussed before, But there is more. To complicate matters, Fox News has consistently claimed that it was at fault in persuading Republicans not to vaccinate. However, when you see these numbers, it is far less simple and boring than simply claiming that Fox News and Republicans are trying to destroy us all.
Watching Poll data from the Caesars Family Foundation, Republicans do make up the majority of unvaccinated people.But at the same time, people of color also Accounted for the majority of unvaccinated people. You may remember that although Donald Trump expanded his voting base among people of color in 2020, it would be very foolish to say that black and Hispanic families are now staunch Republicans.
This issue is a bit partisan, but there are several factors that make this approach less concerned about the politics of vaccines and the status of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Simply looking at party relations can only explain part of the story, and the rest of the story (such as most issues) is far more complicated than a single topic.
When you look at the vaccinated areas in the country, They are mainly citiesIn fact, 72% of urban residents surveyed have received at least one dose, while 64% of suburban adults and 54% of rural adults have received at least one dose. More importantly, only 8% of urban adults stated that they would never be taken medicine, while 15% of suburban adults and 24% of rural adults stated that they would never be injected.
Urban areas tend to be more democratic, yes, but there are also higher income levels and educational opportunities. Except in terms of race, the Democratic Party’s rate is equally high or higher, but income and education are significantly lower. Similarly, although rural adults are more inclined to the Republican Party, they also tend to have lower incomes and less access to health care and education.
Income and education seem to play an important role here. 79% of adults with a college degree have received at least one injection, while only 59% of adults without a degree have received it. The vast majority (92%) of unvaccinated workers do not believe that their employer should use vaccines as a working condition, and 40% of vaccinated workers have the same view.
From the statistical data, yes, Republicans and Republican regions tend to receive fewer vaccinations than Democratic regions, and they are hesitant to vaccinate, but this is only a small part of the information currently available. This is not a clear partisan issue, and you cannot blame Republican politicians and Fox News for all of this.
Media like this NPR has widely reported Regarding vaccine side effects and complications. When Kamala Harris said that she did not believe in the vaccine developed during the Trump administration, no one in the media blinked. They didn’t seem to mind the government’s suspension of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine for fear that it was actually a one-to-one issue. One million guns.
More importantly, they repeatedly criticized action: Warping speed is a partisan vision that will never really work, and then downplays this achievement the moment it succeeds. No wonder people all over the country don’t believe in vaccines or the science behind them: science has always been under constant attack from all sides because of partisanship.
But this is exactly why this pandemic is really bad. We have managed to turn it into a severely divided partisan issue, and there is almost no chance to really cure it. The virus is raging, but at least people’s talking points are the same.
