该国迎来了第245个生日国家独立纪念日拜登政府已经正式错过了让70%的成年人至少注射一针抗逆转录病毒药物的目标新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)疫苗。正如州政府所调查的哪里出了问题随着他们的疫苗推广计划，一个罪魁祸首是明确的:年轻人群明显不太可能接种疫苗。

“归根结底，年轻人——我们很难让他们越过终点线，让他们接种疫苗，”西弗吉尼亚州州长吉姆·贾斯廷(Jim Justice)告诉美国广播公司《本周》联合主播玛莎·拉德达兹(Martha Raddatz)。

“他们是全国没有接种疫苗的年轻人，”法官补充道。“这是一个挑战。仅此而已。”

在全国范围内，67%的成年人接受过一次注射，但仅西弗吉尼亚州56.1%的成年人我已经接种了一剂新冠肺炎疫苗，这是一个令人惊讶的消息，几个月前，这个州被誉为美国疫苗分发的领导者之一。

当这一统计数据按年龄组细分时，年轻一代的疫苗接种率大幅下降。尽管超过78%的65岁以上的美国人口在美国接种了疫苗，根据美国疾病控制和预防中心的说法，只有39.5%的18到24岁的人是完全地接种新冠肺炎疫苗。

“让我们回到谁没有接种疫苗的问题上来，”拉德达茨说。“统计数据会显示贫困、种族，你只要看看地图就知道了——这里有很多红色的州。”

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“嗯，我的意思是，这一切都有一定的道理，”法官回答说。“因为，你知道，红色州可能有很多人，你知道，他们的思想非常非常保守。他们会想，‘好吧，我没必要这么做。’但他们的想法不对。"

“你真的认为那些没有接种疫苗的人——如你所说，他们可能更保守，可能不想让任何人进入他们的行业——真的会接种疫苗吗?”Raddatz问。"在这一点上，到底是什么让他们想要得到它?"

“好吧，玛莎，我不想这么说，这将使他们处于边缘，是一个可怕的很多人死亡，”正义回应。“唯一可能发生的是一场我们谁都不想看到的灾难。”

“所以，我们将继续努力，”他补充道。

在西弗吉尼亚州的首府，当地的卡那华-查尔斯顿卫生部门每天只给8到10个人接种疫苗健康官员和卫生部执行主任。在今年早些时候最好的一天，他们注射了5344针。

"你认为最后一点涓涓细流——相当可观——能做到吗?"拉德茨问杨。

“可能不会，”杨回答。

根据一项新的美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报民意调查，74%未接种疫苗的人可能不会接种疫苗，高于4月份的55%。

在西弗吉尼亚州报道时，美国广播公司新闻遇到了几十名35岁以下仍未接种疫苗的人。

西弗吉尼亚州摩根镇22岁的威廉·帕特森告诉拉德达兹，他“可能不会”接种疫苗，因为他觉得自己没有风险。

“你担心你会把它给别人吗?”拉德茨问帕特森。

“我家很多有健康风险的人已经接种了疫苗，所以我现在并不真的那么担心，”他回答说。

西弗吉尼亚州一直在努力激励人们接种疫苗，提供多种彩票:100万美元的现金奖励、定制的卡车、该州任何公共机构的四年全额奖学金、终身狩猎和捕鱼许可证、定制的猎枪和猎枪，以及去西弗吉尼亚州立公园的旅行。

当被问及疫苗彩票是否影响了他接种疫苗的决定时，帕特森说，“这并没有真正改变任何事情。”

法官告诉美国广播公司新闻，人们在拿自己的生命赌博。

“当它真的归结到这一点时，他们自己就中了彩票，”法官说。“我们有彩票，你知道，基本上是说，‘如果你接种了疫苗，我们会给你东西。’"

“你又中彩票了，”他补充道。“而且是死亡彩票。”

“我之前说过，那是句老话，‘你可以把马牵到水边，但你不能让它们喝水’，对吗?"拉德达茨对州长说。"你已经提供了疫苗，但是..."

“也许你要做的是带他们去喝水——然后如果他们不喝水——你必须以某种方式站起来，把他们的头按下去——至少有几个人会喝水，”法官回答道。“这就是我们要做的。”

不过，一些年轻人正在逐渐光顾当地的药店。20岁的艾丽·柯克在美国广播公司新闻采访她的那天接种了疫苗。

“嗯，我的很多朋友都开始感染了，”柯克告诉拉德达茨，同时解释了是什么改变了她对接种疫苗的想法。“我父母打了疫苗。我对此感觉舒服多了。我自己做了一些研究，觉得是时候拿了。我准备好了。我已经准备好超越COVID，让生活回归正常。”

Vaccine hesitant are in 'death lottery,' W.Va. governor says

As the country marks its 245thIndependence Day, the Biden administration has officially missed its target of getting 70% of all adults at least one shot of aCOVID-19vaccine. And as state governments examinewhat went wrongwith their vaccine rollout programs, a culprit is clear: the younger population is significantly less likely to be vaccinated.

"At the end of the day, the young people -- we're having a hard time getting them across the finish line and getting them vaccinated," West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice told ABC "This Week" Co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

"They're young people all across this country that are not getting vaccinated," Justice added. "It's a challenge. That's all there is to it."

Nationally, 67% of all adults have received one dose, but only56.1% of adults in West Virginiahave received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine -- a surprise from a state that was lauded months ago as being one of the leaders in the U.S. on vaccine distribution.

When that statistic is broken down by age group, the vaccination rate plummets in younger generations. While more than 78% of the U.S. population over the age of 65 is vaccinated in the United States,according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 39.5% of 18- to 24-year-olds arefullyvaccinated against COVID-19.

"Let's go back to who's not getting vaccinated," Raddatz said. "The statistics will show it's poverty, race and you just look at the map -- it's a lot of red states."

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"Well, I mean, there's some truth to that and everything," Justice responded. "Because, you know, the red states probably have a lot of people that, you know, are very, very conservative in their thinking. And they think, 'Well, I don't have to do that.' But they're not thinking right."

"Do you really think those people who aren't vaccinated -- who as you said may be more conservative, may not want anybody in their business -- are really ever going to get vaccinated?" Raddatz asked. "What could actually put them over the edge to want it at this point?"

"Well, Martha, I hate to say this, is what would put them over the edge, is an awful lot of people die," Justice responded. "The only way that's going to happen is a catastrophe that none of us want."

"And so, we're just going to keep trying," he added.

In the capital of West Virginia, the local Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is only vaccinating eight to 10 people a day, according to Dr. Sherri Young, ahealthofficer and the executive director of the health department. On their best day earlier this year, they had administered 5,344 shots.

"Do you think that last little trickle out there -- which is pretty sizable -- will ever do it?" Raddatz asked Young.

"Probably not," Young replied.

According to a newABC News/Washington Post poll, 74% of people who are unvaccinated probably won't get a shot, which is up from 55% in April.

While reporting in West Virginia, ABC News came across dozens of individuals under the age of 35 who were still unvaccinated.

William Paterson, 22, of Morgantown, West Virginia, told Raddatz he would "probably not" get the vaccine because he felt he wasn't at risk.

"Do you worry that you might give it to someone else?" Raddatz asked Paterson.

"A lot of the people in my family that are at health risks are already vaccinated, so I'm not really that worried about it right now," he replied.

The state of West Virginia has continued to try incentivizing people to get vaccinated,offering multiple lotteries: a million dollar cash prize, custom-outfitted trucks, full four-year scholarships to any public institution in the state, lifetime hunting and fishing licenses, custom hunting rifles and shotguns, and getaways to West Virginia State Parks.

When asked if the vaccine lottery swayed his decision to get vaccinated, Paterson said "it doesn't change anything really."

Justice told ABC News that people are gambling with their lives.

"When it really boils right down to it, they're in a lottery to themselves," Justice said. "We have a lottery, you know, that basically says, 'if you're vaccinated, we're going to give you stuff.'"

"Well you've got another lottery going on," he added. "And it's the death lottery."

"I was saying earlier, that it's the old, 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make 'em drink,' right?" Raddatz said to the governor. "You've provided the vaccine, and yet..."

"Maybe what you got to do is lead them to water -- and then if they won't drink -- you've got to just, some way, stand up and push their head down to some way -- at least a few will drink," Justice responded. "And that's what we got to do."

Some young adults are gradually visiting their local pharmacies though. Ally Kirk, 20, got vaccinated the day ABC News spoke with her.

"Well, a lot of my friends started getting it," Kirk told Raddatz, while explaining what changed her mind about getting vaccinated. "My parents were vaccinated. I felt a lot more comfortable with it. I did some research on my own, and I felt that it was time for me to get it. I was ready. I'm ready to move past COVID and get on with life back to normal."