The media keeps reporting "only 26%" of the country is vaccinated. While technically true, it's only true if you include kids (who are not eligible for the vaccine), and if you don't include people who have already received one shot. 1/
Most of those people will be getting their 2nd shot eventually (obviously), some already have, and even if they never do, the protection from one shot is more effective than we would have dreamed any vaccine could be a year ago. 2/
The most important numbers are... in order:
1. People 65+ with at least one shot
-- which is now up to 80.6%!!!
2. People 18+ with at least one shot, a group that just became fully eligible this week
-- and it's already at 51.5%!!!
3/
There are reasons for health officials to look at the entire population and full vaccination, but the media tends to only cite this number in the context of "vaccine hesitancy" "republicans" "evangelicals" and "the south"-- in other words, in service of a narrative. END

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