"Vaccine Hesitancy" -- Today's Data Lowest Friday Count In Ten Weeks -- May 14, 2021

CDC data here. 

Today's "Friday vaccine" report: 1.842 million doses administered.

We have to go all the way back to February 19, 2021, to see such a "low" count, over ten weeks ago.

Note that the capacity for vaccine administration trends toward 4.0 million doses on a "Friday" but today's number, 1.842 million is 53% of the maximum seen on April 16. 

It was April 13 that the government took th JNJ vaccine off the market for safety issues and then four days later deemed it safe enough to go back on the market but waited until April 23, 2021, at close of business on a Friday to make the announcement that the JNJ vaccine was safe "enough"to be brought back to the market. 

One would think that human nature being what it is, now that the CDC has given the "all clear" sign, folks may not seen the need for vaccination, misinterpreting the CDC decision. However, as colleges (and maybe public schools) require vaccinations before students return to school, the numbers will increase. It will be fascinating to watch. If it's the latter, we might not see the "school-mandate effect" until later this summer.

		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
Friday	May 14, 2021	341,865,945	2,700,500	268,438,666	1,842,180	78.52%
Friday	May 7, 2021	327,124,625	2,514,440	254,779,333	2,805,581	77.88%
Friday	April 30, 2021	308,774,155	3,295,660	240,159,677	2,799,184	77.78%
Friday	April 23, 2021	286,095,185	3,911,270	222,322,230	3,374,587	77.71%
Friday	April 16, 2021	258,502,815	3,102,150	202,282,293	3,965,253	78.25%
Friady	April 9, 2021	233,591,955	4,193,270	178,837,781	3,958,065	76.56%
Friday	March 26, 2021	177,501,775	3,976,440	136,684,688	3,379,393	77.00%
Friday	March 19, 2021	154,199,235	3,090,790	118,313,818	2,583,810	76.73%
Friday	March 12, 2021	133,337,525	2,206,055	101,128,005	2,924,112	75.84%
Friday	March 5, 2021	114,133,115	4,227,585	85,008,094	2,435,246	74.48%
Friday	February 19, 2021	78,152,495	2,864,685	59,585,043	1,651,608	76.24%
Friday	February 12, 2021	69,014,725	729,150	48,410,558	2,020,288	70.15%