Half of adults have already been vaccinated in the United States, which begins to vaccinate all people over 16 years of age

WASHINGTON.- United States already successfully vaccinated against the coronavirus with at least one dose of a vaccine to more than half of the country’s adult population, and from today all people over 16 years old They were able to be vaccinated, two new milestones in the vaccination campaign which is progressing steadily, without pause to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.

Since today, all adults in the country can request an appointment to be vaccinated in one of the states of the country, or they can go to search for a vaccine without an appointment at one of the 16,000 open spaces to receive the injection. The federal government hopes to finish this week with its review of cases of atypical thrombosis developed by six women who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and may reactivate its distribution.

“If you’re 16 or older, it’s your turn to get vaccinated, no matter where you live,” said Andy Slavit, the White House’s senior advisor on responding to the pandemic. “Getting vaccinated has never been easier,” Slavit insisted.

While Europe and Latin America – Argentina included – progress with difficulty and at a slower than desired speed with their vaccination, and poorer countries barely have the doses, the United States has already vaccinated over 130 million people with at least one dose, and are progressing to an average of three million doses per day. 50.4% of the country’s adult population has already received an injection and a third is already fully vaccinated.

President Joe Biden is on track to deliver on his pledge to deliver 200 million doses in his first 100 days in office. Biden and his team inherited two approved vaccines from the Donald Trump administration, one from Pfizer and BioNTech, and one from Moderna, along with others along the way through the operation. Lightning speed, which has made an unprecedented investment of around $ 13 billion to achieve herd immunity to the new pathogen as quickly as possible. But the new government had to start from scratch with road distribution, which at first was frustratingly slow, but has now reached cruising speed. Trump had forecast in September of the previous year that the United States would have enough vaccines for all adults by April of this year.

The White House, the Pentagon, federal agencies such as FEMA, which deals with natural disasters, state and local governments have deployed a very large distribution chain that has brought vaccines to hospitals, pharmacies, stadiums, convention centers, mobile vaccinations, gymnasiums and supermarkets across the country.

“We all want normalcy. The road to this normalcy is vaccination, ”said Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House adviser and senior federal epidemiologist.

Federal authorities want speed up vaccination as much as possible knowing that the United States, like other countries, are racing between vaccines and new variants of the virus, more contagious than the original strain. In fact, despite advances in vaccination, infections have increased in recent weeks, and the moving average has risen from around 55,000 daily cases in mid-March to nearly 70,000 in recent days. Deaths, however, continue to decline.

One of the obstacles that authorities are starting to see for the advancement of immunization is the resistance of a significant percentage of the population to be vaccinated. The latest Pew Center survey found that 30% of Americans prefer to stop getting vaccinated right now, a lower proportion than in the middle of the previous year, when it was almost 50%, but still high enough to stretch the pandemic and become the main obstacle to the return to normality.

The main reasons for vaccine rejection among those who so far prefer to stay out of the campaign are concerns about side effects, the speed at which vaccines have been developed and vaccines approved, or the desire to wait for more. ” have more information on their effectiveness, according to the Pew Center survey. Other reasons are mistrust of the health care system, or simply the fact that they think they do not need it, or that they generally do not get vaccinated.

As has happened with other aspects of the pandemic, such as activity restrictions or the use of a mask, the vaccine generates strong differences between Democrats and Republicans. Partisan differences, which have long characterized opinions about the epidemic, are increasingly visible in vaccine intent. While 83% of Democrats plan to receive or have already received a coronavirus vaccine, only just over half of Republicans, 56%, are in this group. This gap is wider now than it was in 2020.