Southern states are trying to overcome Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy. “We’re basically having to resort to scare tactics” says an Alabama doctor.
Arkansas and other Southern states have emerged as crucial battlegrounds in efforts by state and local officials to persuade enough unvaccinated Americans to get Covid-19 shots to arrest. Arkansas now has the second-highest rate of new daily Covid-19 cases in the country, after Louisiana.
The highly contagious Delta variant that dominates the surge has been especially devastating to states in the South and Midwest, including Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri, as well as Arkansas. All of those states except Florida haveOn Thursday, President Biden announced a vaccine mandate for all federal employees and urged state governors to begin offering $100 payments to patients who get vaccine doses as an incentive to help boost the U.S.
Vaccination rates in Arkansas rose rapidly earlier this year but “flatlined” starting in early April, said Col. Rob Ator, a retired Air National Guard commander tapped by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson to lead the state’s vaccination effort. Mr. Hutchinson has been traveling the state in recent weeks to give talks promoting vaccination. Arkansas’s full vaccination rate for residents age 12 and up is 42.5%.have gotten them, Col.
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