哥伦比亚，南卡罗来纳州——副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯和拜登政府的最高环境官员正在南方几个州停留，以促进密集的白宫冠状病毒疫苗接种工作。
周五，白宫宣布哈里斯将于周一访问南卡罗来纳州的格林维尔，随后于6月18日访问亚特兰大。环保局局长迈克尔·里根计划星期二在北卡罗来纳州的罗利和夏洛特停留。
旅行的细节没有公布。
这些访问标志着全国之旅的开始，这是白宫“行动月”的一部分，由乔·拜登总统上周宣布，以敦促更多的美国人在7月4日假期前接种疫苗。
这项努力包括在初夏冲刺的激励措施和一系列新的步骤，以缓解障碍，使疫苗对那些没有收到的人更有吸引力。它旨在帮助总统实现他的目标，到2015年至少让70%的成年人接种部分疫苗国家独立纪念日。
南部是该国冠状病毒疫苗接种率最低的地区。美联社(Associated Press)上个月对疾病控制和预防中心(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)提供的数据进行的一项分析显示，8个南方州位于倒数10名，所有这些州都低于40%。
密西西比州排在最后，为32%，接下来是路易斯安那州、阿拉巴马州、怀俄明州、爱达荷州、田纳西州、阿肯色州、佐治亚州、西弗吉尼亚州和南卡罗来纳州。
此外，白宫正在与幼儿园、学习护理小组、光明地平线和500多个基督教青年会等早期儿童中心合作，为寻找疫苗或在从副作用中恢复时需要帮助的美国人提供免费儿童护理服务。
政府还在马里兰州一个成功的试点项目的基础上，发起了一个新的伙伴关系，将疫苗教育甚至剂量带到1000多家黑人拥有的理发店和美容院。
VP Harris making Southern stops to promote vaccination
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration's top environmental official are making stops in several Southern states to promote an intensive White House coronavirus vaccination effort.
On Friday, the White House announced that Harris will visit Greenville, South Carolina, on Monday, to be followed by a June 18 visit to Atlanta. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan plans to make Tuesday stops in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Details of the trips were not released.
The visits mark the launch of a national tour that's part of of the White House’s “month of action,” announced by President Joe Biden last week to urge more Americans to get vaccinated before the July 4 holiday.
The effort includes an early summer sprint of incentives and a slew of new steps to ease barriers and make thevaccinesmore appealing to those who haven’t received them. It's aimed at helping the president close in on his goal of getting 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated byIndependence Day.
The South has been home to some of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates in the country. According to an analysis last month by The Associated Press of data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eight Southern states were in the bottom 10, all of which are under 40%.
Mississippi was last at 32%, followed by Louisiana, Alabama, Wyoming, Idaho, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, West Virginia and South Carolina.
Additionally, the White House is partnering with early childhood centers such as KinderCare, Learning Care Group, Bright Horizons and more than 500 YMCAs to provide free child care coverage for Americans looking for shots or needing assistance while recovering from side effects.
The administration is also launching a new partnership to bring vaccine education and even doses to more than a thousand Black-owned barbershops and beauty salons, building on a successful pilot program in Maryland.
