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The recent polling I've seen on the topic is that 74% of US adults are willing to get vaccinated (or have been).

And the trendline on the polling is that the % willing to get vaccinated is slowly climbing since the vaccine development successes were announced last fall.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/342431/satisfaction-vaccine-rol...

I think we'll get there.

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Here's even more recent: Have or Will = 82.8% (202.8M) Haven't or Won't = 17.2% (42.2M)

Data is from a US Census "household pulse" survey of Mar 31, Table 5, published April 7: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2021/demo/hhp/hhp27.html

That's excellent news, however doing the math, there are 74 million people under 18 in the US, so (1 - 74/328) * 0.74 = 57.3%. Of course once kids are able to get vaccinated, presumably some percentage of them will be and that might push it to 65 or even 70%.

Edit: I don’t normally ask why people downvote, but who downvotes multiplication?!

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