I wish there were stats on "want to vaccinate, but haven't been able to."
Most people are not that lucky, and unfortunately have to choose to roll the dice on COVID to avoid the certainty of being fired for missing work.
I would love it if there was data on "want a vaccine but couldn't get it". The vaccine finder website could have you indicate "I'm interested" and then email you every month and ask you to confirm that you got a vaccine or that you gave up or that you're still looking. I fear that people don't ask questions they don't want to know the answer to; "300 million people are looking for a vaccine but only 200 million got it" would not look good. Sigh!!
For my third dose, that was last month. I think I signed up for my ultimately-canceled appointment early December targeting a date before Christmas. I ended up getting the shot in the first week of January.
I felt like I had to devote a lot of mental energy to getting the vaccine much later than everyone else, looking at statistics. I totally believe that other people said "I like the vaccine, but fuck this shit" and that's why they're not vaccinated.
The situation is not great. I have no idea how a poor person would navigate this system.
I never saw anyone talking about this; the government websites are like "go to CVS, you can just walk in!" but in reality no CVS locations were accepting walk-ins if you asked. And even appointments were tenuous.
I feel like it's fair to place 90% of the blame on individuals, but I also think big companies are misrepresenting themselves to the government, or the government isn't asking if they actually have vaccines or not.