Harris to start vaccination tour with stops in South Carolina, Georgia

Vice President Harris will travel to South Carolina and Georgia next week, her first stops on a national vaccination tour as the Biden administration makes a final push to meet its coronavirus vaccine goal for the Fourth of July.

Harris will visit Greenville, S.C., on Monday and Atlanta on June 18. The vaccination tour, led by the vice president, is part of the White House’s National Month of Action on vaccines as it seeks to reach its goal of 70 percent of adults having at least one shot by July 4.

South Carolina and Georgia each have roughly 40 percent of their respective state populations vaccinated, according to Mayo Clinic data. Harris is expected to make additional stops in the southern U.S. as part of the vaccination tour, and other administration officials, such as first lady Jill Biden and Cabinet officials, are also expected to get involved with the push in other parts of the country.

President Biden at the start of June announced the national month of action, which includes the We Can Do This national tour. Harris has been tasked with reaching Americans in key communities who have yet to get the shot and to “mobilize grassroots vaccine education and outreach efforts.”