In May, Redd and other staff at the site were noticing a declining number of people arriving each day. Part of that had to do with how easy it had become to get a vaccine, which were, by then, available at pharmacies and doctors’ offices. And there was also dwindling interest — part of a national trend that would only become more clear as spring turned to summer and plummeting interest in the vaccine forced officials to revise their goals.

Source: Washington Post July 17, 2021 10:00 UTC