Biden's vaccination goal faces roadblocks in the South
CBSN
President Biden's push to get 70% of Americans vaccinated by the Fourth of July is hitting roadblocks, even with million-dollar lotteries and free beer.
Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of last week. This week, it's inched up to almost 64%. But in a handful of states — mostly in the South — fewer than half of adults have had a shot. The rates are so low that at the current pace, it would take Mississippi more than a year to reach the 70% vaccination goal and two-and-a-half years for Alabama to hit it.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.