Most unvaccinated adults don't want the shot; Pfizer vaccine OK'd for teens; bodies buried in India's Ganges River: Live COVID-19 updates

Vaccine hesitancy has become the predominant mindset of Americans who have not yet been inoculated, making the drive for herd immunity ever more elusive.

Just 11% of American adults who remain unvaccinated say they definitely will get the shot, while 34% say they definitely won’t, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Another 27% say they probably will and 27% say they probably won’t.

The vaccination rush has slowed, and President Joe Biden was meeting virtually with six governors today to discuss how to revive momentum. Biden wants 70% of Americans vaccinated by the 4th of July. That's about what some experts say is needed to get the pandemic under control. Right now less than half of Americans had received at least one shot.

Getting kids vaccinated could help the numbers. Adolescents 12 to 15 could qualify for shots as soon as Thursday after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the age group.

Biden said last week that 20,000 pharmacy locations are ready to begin vaccinating adolescents once the necessary approvals come through.

Older teens, 16 and 17, have been allowed to get the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since it was authorized in December. The other two vaccines authorized for use in the USA, from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, have not been available to minors because studies are still underway. 

Read More:  USAtoday.com

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