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<\/p>\nWASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Greenville, S.C., on Monday to kick off a national vaccination tour by top administration officials, pushing\u00a0towards the goal of getting shots in the arms of 70% of U.S. adults by July 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She will end the week with a stop in Atlanta on June 18th, according to an administration official who provided the details first to USA TODAY. <\/p>\n
First Lady Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and members of the cabinet are also hitting the road, making stops in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana throughout the week.<\/p>\n
Officials will be dropping in on pop-up clinics, visiting churches and college campuses and engaging with historically\u00a0underserved communities to encourage people to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n
The tour is part of the Biden administration’s “month of action” announced last week to accelerate vaccination efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the first weekend,\u00a0local organizations and COVID-19 community corps members held more than\u00a01,000 events across the country in all 50 states.<\/p>\n
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US Vice President Kamala Harris watches a health worker giving a Covid-19 vaccine to a woman at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas on March 15, 2021. – Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Las Vegas Monday to promote the $1.9 trillion Ccovid relief package, known as the American Rescue Plan. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN, AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n While at least a dozen states have reached the goal President Joe Biden set of getting at least one shot into the arm of\u00a070% of adults by next month, vaccination rates are lowest in the South, where the vaccination tour is focused.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t want to see the country that is already too divided become divided in a new way,” Biden said last week, “between places where people live free from fear of COVID and places where, when the fall arrives, death and severe illnesses return.”<\/p>\n The national rate is 64% among adults.<\/p>\n If shots continue at their current rate, the U.S.\u00a0will fall short of Biden’s goal.<\/p>\n Efforts to pick up the pace include\u00a0encouraging\u00a0vaccine incentives\u00a0like discounts or sweepstakes for vaccinated people. Some child care providers are\u00a0offering free child care through July 4 to parents and caregivers who are getting vaccinated or recovering from vaccination, and many pharmacies\u00a0are extending\u00a0hours this month on Fridays to accommodate\u00a0late-night vaccination times.<\/p>\n A “Shots at the Shop” initiative is bringing together 1,000 Black-owned barbershops and beauty salons across the nation to serve as vaccination locations.<\/p>\n Nearly 100 mayors are participating in a challenge to\u00a0see which city can grow its vaccination rate the most by July 4th.\u00a0<\/p>\n “All over the world,” Biden said, “people are desperate to get a shot that every American can get at their neighborhood drug store at no cost, with no wait.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/04\/26\/USAT\/8bb12687-0dfb-47cd-9574-5db04fbb0b7c-Bradshaw_with_Harris.jpg?crop=3024,2539,x0,y485&width=540&height=&fit=bounds&auto=webp\")
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