Vaccine Doubts Threaten U.S. Rollout in Marginalized Communities

Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation campaigns by anti-vaccination movements threaten to throw off state and federal vaccine roll out plans and further entrench health disparities, leaders warn.

The U.S. could return to a degree of normalcy by the fall, but that target date depends largely on the nation’s ability to vaccinate somewhere between 70% to 85% of the nation in order to reach herd immunity. But the two biggest stumbling blocks remain: supply—which the Biden administration has said it will ramp up—as well as ongoing skepticism about taking the vaccine.

Failure to vaccinate rapidly only increases the chances the virus ...