"Vaccine Hesitancy" -- May 5, 2021

One has to go all the way back ten weeks -- all the way back to February 24, 2021 -- to find a "Wednesday" in which fewer vaccinations were given than reported in today's "Wednesday" report.

CDC data here.

See sixth column. The country has a capacity of 4 million + doses per 24-hour period; most recently, less than 2 million were administered.. 

By the way, look at how the amount of vaccine being delivered is dropping; it came very, very close to dropping below 3 million doses when recently as many as 6 million doses were delivered.

There was a story earlier today that some states are not using their full allocation; the federal government will re-allocate unused vaccine to states that "need" it. Posted earlier.

This past week, the vaccine was opened up to everyone over the age of 16. 

		Doses of vaccine distributed to health facilities	Change from day before	Vaccinations given	Change from day before	Percent of distributed vaccine that is actually administered
Wednesday	May 5, 2021	321,549,335	3,075,300	249,566,820	1,797,771	77.61%
Wednesday	April 28, 2021	301,857,885	4,314,250	234,639,414	2,231,745	77.73%
Wednesday	April 21, 2021	277,938,875	5,908,080	215,951,909	2,563,671	77.70%
Wednesday	April 14, 2021	250,998,265	5,633,460	194,791,836	2,509,055	77.61%
Wednesday	April 7, 2021	225,294,435	6,100,220	171,476,655	2,884,580	76.11%
Wednesday	March 31, 2021	195,581,725	6,130,440	150,273,292	2,670,947	76.83%
Wednesday	March 24, 2021	169,223,125	6,244,285	130,473,853	1,982,059	77.10%
Wednesday	March 17, 2021	147,590,615	4,672,090	113,037,627	2,299,771	76.59%
Wednesday	March 10, 2021	127,869,155	4,636,380	95,721,290	2,028,692	74.86%
Wednesday	March 3, 2021	107,028,890	4,674,950	80,540,474	1,908,873	75.25%
Wednesday	February 24, 2021	88,669,035	6,554,665	66,464,947	1,432,864	74.96%