"I asked them if they're getting vaccinated. "There was an elderly couple coming in and they were of such an age that I would have thought they'd already been vaccinated," she told ABC News. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, a freshman lawmaker who served as Iowa's top public health official for four years, said her dual role as a doctor and lawmaker helps her connect with constituents on taking the vaccine. So I'm hoping that people get over that skepticism," he said, adding that he believes more conservatives will opt to get vaccinated once they see friends and family take their own shots. You're more likely to get injured in a car accident on the way to the clinic than to have this problem occur. "People are going to realize, you know, these are one-in-a-million events. Harris said the pause may "add a little skepticism," but predicted that Americans will "get over it." developed rare blood clots, the cause of which are still being investigated. The single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine had been developed using a more traditional approach than the MRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna, but the federal government recently ordered a pause on distribution and administration of the vaccine after six people of the nearly 7 million who received the vaccine in the U.S. "We need to be looking at the country as a whole, but if we're going to get this virus under control, we're going to need people across communities," Brownstein said. The country's ability to reach herd immunity from COVID-19 could be jeopardized, he said, if some communities continue to hold out against vaccines. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and an ABC News contributor, said in an interview. "We're seeing real hesitancy in certain groups, mostly Republicans, who fear the concerns around the vaccine or maybe downplay the risks around the pandemic," Dr. But vaccination rates have lagged in red states including Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee, where fewer than 40% of adults have received at least one dose, according to the Associated Press. The United States over the weekend reached the milestone of administering at least one vaccine dose to half of all American adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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