U.S. Faces Battle Vaccinating Younger People, as Demand Slows Among Seniors

The Associated Press reports that the U.S. vaccination campaign against COVID-19 appears to be effective, with both hospitalizations and deaths among senior Americans falling. Indeed, COVID-19 hospitalizations among older Americans have plummeted more than 70 percent since Jan. 1. Yet overall demand for vaccinations in the United States seems to be declining, even as shots have been opened up to all adults across the country. New virus cases in the U.S. have hovered at troubling levels since March, averaging over 60,000 per day, increasingly among people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. Rapid inoculation of younger populations will be a challenge, because they feel they are less vulnerable to the coronavirus, yet are primarily the ones spreading the disease. "To really feel that we're out of the woods we've got to see a lot less cases than we're seeing now," said Georgetown University's Jesse Goodman.