From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is the Daily.

On Friday, I spoke with my colleague, a porvo mondivili,

about the growing consensus that our herd immunity is no longer achievable in the United States.

A major reason why is vaccine hesitancy.

Today, what that hesitancy looks like inside a single community.

A stead herndon spoke with our colleague, Jan Hoff, about her reporting in rural Tennessee.

It's Monday, May 10th.

Jan, tell me about your reporting on vaccines over the course of this pandemic.

I focused mostly on vaccine hesitancy.

In the early months of vaccine development and then the eventual rollout,

the concern really had to do with people in black and Latino communities

because of their historic maltreatment on the part of medical researchers

and frankly the healthcare system.

But as the months have continued, because of the efforts of leaders in the black community,

the Latino community, among medical professionals in those communities,

and also religious figures in those communities,

hesitation has decreased in those communities, although it's still present.

And surveys showed that the hesitation remained firmest in people

who describe themselves variously as Republican, White, and or Evangelical Christian

and who tend to live in rural communities.

So in your focus on vaccination efforts across demographic groups,

you've zeroed in on these white conservative communities partly because

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