Jill Biden Pitches Shots for Reluctant Arms in Trump Country
- First lady tries to boost low vaccination rates in Deep South
- Surveys find rural Republicans more likely to refuse shots
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First lady Jill Biden traveled to the U.S. Deep South on Tuesday to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations, as the White House seeks to combat widespread hesitance to get shots in areas that are politically hostile to the president.
Mississippi and Tennessee, where Biden is traveling, have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. Unvaccinated adults who say they definitely won’t get inoculated are more likely to be Republicans and live in rural areas, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey released last month.