Pelosi and White House blame Republicans for fueling spread of COVID but fewer than half of young people and 36% of black people have had shots while 92% of older Americans are jabbed
Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden's digs at Republicans for refusing to get vaccinated have been cast into doubt after figures showed key Democrat demographics are among the main groups who aren't being jabbed.
Figures from both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) show key Democrat voting blocks - including blacks, Hispanics and people of all races between ages 18 and 24 - are also hesitant to have the shot.
Earlier this week, Nancy Pelosi attempted to blame Republican leaders for failing to encourage their constituents to get vaccinated, but failed to mention why her own party hadn't been pushing millions of reluctant Democrat voters to also get the shots.
'Certainly, the Republican Party has been delinquent in embracing the science that people need to be vaccinated,' she stated.
Joe Biden also appeared to imply that partisanship was to blame for the United States' flagging vaccine drive during a lengthy White House speech Thursday.
He said: 'Look this is not about red states and blue states, it's literally about life and death
'It's about life and death that's what it's about you know and I know people talk about freedom.'
A KFF survey found young people, rural residents and black adults are among the groups most likely to refuse a vaccine, along with registered Republicans
Younger people are less likely to have received the vaccine than older Americans. Many young people either do not fear the virus or do fear the vaccine
Black Americans are falling behind in the vaccine rollout, while Asian Americans are the most vaccinated group
But data from sources including the government's own Centers for Disease Control shows that young people, as well as black and Hispanic Americans, are among the largest groups who are hesitant to have a COVID vaccine.
The CDC reports that young Americans between 18-24 are among the most hesitant groups. They account for 9.2 percent of the U.S. population, but only 8 percent of the vaccinated population.
A separate survey found that 25 percent of unvaccinated people in that age group have no intention of ever receiving the shots.
According to the KFF, 'less than half of black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in nearly all states reporting data, including a number of states where less than a third have received a vaccine.'
A separate KFF poll found that one in three black Americans and one in four Hispanic Americans would still refuse the COVID-19 vaccine even if all scientists determined it to be safe.
Meanwhile, CDC data shows that senior citizens - who are more likely to be Republican than Democrat - are the group with the highest vaccination rate.
92 percent of Americans aged 65 to 74 and 87 percent of Americans 75 and older are at least partially vaccinated.
And their data has found white Americans are more likely to have had a COVID vaccine than their black or Hispanic counterparts.
Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden's digs at Republicans for refusing to get vaccinated have been cast into doubt after figures showed key Democrat demographics are among the main groups who aren't being jabbed
Males are less likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccine than females so far
White and black Americans are least likely to have been vaccinated so far, according to CDC data
White Americans account for 59 percent of the vaccinated despite making up 61 percent of the population.
However, liberal pundits are correct when they state that rural voters and Republicans - many of whom are white - are among the most vaccine-resistant groups.
Many rural areas also have lower vaccination rates than their urban peers, though the reason may not only be based in vaccine hesitancy.
Official data shows that 45 percent of people in urban areas have received at least one shot of a vaccine, compared to only 39 percent of people who live in rural areas, according to CDC data.
Rural Americans often have to travel further than their urban counterparts to receive the vaccine, and access to vaccine information is harder in areas that may not have full internet access.
Door-to-door efforts have already kicked off in some parts of the country, including in rural Georgia.
In total, nearly 350 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the United States.
Almost half of the American population is fully vaccinated, and 57 percent are at least partially vaccinated.
Experts project that it may require the nation reaching 80 percent of the population getting fully vaccinated to reach herd immunity.
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