To the Editor:
Again and again, The Times has interviewed the unvaccinated to understand their motivations. The reasons the unvaccinated give simply don’t matter (nor do their real reasons, if different). It’s past time for persuasion.
This is a worldwide health crisis and, at least in the United States, it is getting worse — when it could already have been suppressed, if everyone had got vaccinated promptly. More than 600,000 Americans have died, and, as you have reported, the caseload and death toll are sharply increasing because of the Delta variant.
The evidence is overwhelming that the vaccines work.