{"id":5875,"date":"2021-08-21T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2021-08-21T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:22:08","slug":"how-political-polarization-broke-americas-vaccine-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5875","title":{"rendered":"How political polarization broke America\u2019s vaccine campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;That polarization has now opened political rifts in vaccination rates, with people\u2019s decision to get a shot or not&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/06\/25\/covid-19-vaccine-rates-donald-trump-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">today a better predictor<\/a>&nbsp;of states\u2019 electoral outcomes than their votes in prior elections. It\u2019s led the US\u2019s vaccination campaign to hit a wall, missing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22400322\/vaccines-herd-immunity-coronavirus-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Joe Biden\u2019s July 4 goal<\/a>. Meanwhile, the more infectious&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22547537\/delta-coronavirus-variant-covid-19-vaccines-masks-lockdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">delta variant<\/a>&nbsp;is spreading, raising the risk of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in unvaccinated \u2014 and often heavily Republican \u2014 areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it bluntly: Polarization is killing people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/7\/6\/22554198\/political-polarization-vaccine-covid-19-coronavirus\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/7\/6\/22554198\/political-polarization-vaccine-covid-19-coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That polarization has now opened political rifts in vaccination rates, with people\u2019s decision to get a shot or not today a better predictor of states\u2019 electoral outcomes than their votes in prior elections. It\u2019s led the US\u2019s vaccination campaign to hit a wall, missing President Joe Biden\u2019s July 4 goal. Meanwhile, the more infectious delta variant is spreading, raising the risk of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in unvaccinated \u2014 and often heavily Republican \u2014 areas.<\/p>\n<p>To put it bluntly: Polarization is killing people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,489,925],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-polarization","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}