Adjusting for population, the daily death rate is now about eight times higher in America than in the rest of the rich world
vaccines are still scarce in poor countries, rich ones enjoy a plentiful supply. In the European Union, nearly three-quarters of adults have been fully vaccinated. In Britain the figure exceeds 80%. And as vaccination rates have climbed, deaths have fallen. In the EU, daily deaths in excess of those in normal years have tumbled by more than 90% since their peak in November. In Britain, they are down by 95% since January, to just less than one per 1m people.
A slowdown in vaccinations in the country is largely to blame. In America, vaccines have been widely available to all adults since mid-April. Yet today, more than five months later, only 67% of those aged 18 or over are fully vaccinated, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. In some states, scarcely half of adults have received their full doses. Surveys suggest that, although some Americans might be persuaded to get a jab, others are adamantly against it.
The latest wave may now be starting to abate: cases, which typically precede deaths by about two weeks, are on the decline. But the virus is not going away. America’s antipathy to vaccines and continued resistance to other interventions, particularly among Republicans, is worrying.
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