Fear that Johnson & Johnson pause could heighten vaccine hesitancy in US

A deflating pattern is emerging in rural, conservative and vaccine-hesitant states as authorities worry that stakes could not be higher in those same communities

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 with 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.

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