More than one million Americans received the coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, the first time the nation has hit that mark since late June, as the delta variant sweeps across the United States and hospitals hit capacity, Politico reports.
The volume of inoculations has increase by 31% over the last week. The surge comes 17 days after the US hit the 70% benchmark for adults having at least one vaccine dose. While Republican politicians and conservative media personalities continue to cast aspersions on the vaccine, the American public seems to largely be ignoring them to get themselves and their children vaccinated.
“The vaccines do work,” Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said on MSNBC Thursday morning, “and because of that, we’ve got to get the unvaccinated people vaccinated. That’s a very important goal and a very important issue we need to address.”