Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 03.01 EDT
Teton county, Wyoming, is at the vanguard of America’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign – but it isn’t celebrating.
The county has vaccinated far more people proportionally than in most of America – 39% – compared to less than a quarter nationally. Local authorities are concerned they may have hit a saturation point. Vast, rural and conservative Wyoming is one of the most vaccine hesitant places in the nation, and fewer people are signing up for vaccine clinics. Similar patterns are emerging across the US.
Local authorities now worry the rare potential side effects of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine – so infrequent a person is twice as likely to be struck by lightning – could confirm the worries of some already hesitant to get vaccinated.