'Wildcard' Vaccine-Resistant COVID-19 Strains Threaten 'Doomsday Scenario', Health Officials Warn
LUCY NICHOLSON
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Despite anticipating vaccination rates to drop off in rural communities and among younger people hesitant about the jabs, state and federal officials were reported to have been caught off guard by a sharp decline in demand for vaccinations in certain “pockets of the US”.
The White House is reportedly being prompted to rethink its coronavirus vaccination strategy as falling inoculation rates spark fears that “straggler” pockets in the country might become breeding grounds for more dangerous virus variants.
As they observe developments in South Africa and Brazil, where several coronavirus mutations have been registered that might potentially spread more easily, evading immune responses, tests, and even shots, health officials in the US are deploring the plummeting vaccination rates registered for weeks in some southern and mountainous western regions, reported