'President Joe Biden faces his toughest mission yet in the fight to deliver the United States from Covid-19 -- depoliticizing the pandemic.' Analysis by StCollinson
With medical data and polls showing Republicans and citizens of conservative states less likely to get vaccinated, the President must find new ways to win over an audience that is predisposed not to listen to him as fears deepen of vicious regional hotspots of disease.
Furthermore, and as Covid-19 rates rise again after months of progress, new data shows that states with low vaccine rates have almost triple the rate of new Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. Other data from the university matched with 2020 election results shows that 15 of the 16 states with the lowest percentage of residents fully vaccinated were won by Trump.