I'm less concerned by the fact that 44% of Republicans say they refuse to #GetVaccinated than I am by the *consistency* of that percent over time. If it was gradually dropping that would be more encouraging, but it's almost a straight line since December.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1393908193693249540
I know this isn’t an exact overlap, but if you assume all 44% are those who voted for Trump last year, that’s around 33 million people or 10% of the total U.S. population.
Add the ~50M 11 & younger kids who can’t get vaccinated, the ~10M immunocompromised who can’t, the 4% of Dems & ? Indys who won’t and that’s probably around 30%. Yikes.
Basically there’s around ~60 million Americans who CAN’T get vaccinated due to age or medical condition and another ~40 million who CAN but say they WON’T. That’s 100M out of 335M or just shy of 30% of the total population. (Sigh)
If 100% of those who COULD get vaxxed DID so, we’d hit 82%.
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