Door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination efforts are underway in three U.S. states after President Joe Biden announced the controversial initiative last week.
Counties in North Carolina, Georgia and Wisconsin have all launched strategies to go to people's homes and share information on COVID-19 vaccines.
In some instances, officials will deliver the COVID-19 vaccines right to people's doors, removing transportation barriers some may face in getting a shot.
However, several states such as South Carolina and Missouri have both rejected federal help for door-to-door vaccine programs in their state, calling it federal overreach.
North Carolina, Georgia and Wisconsin are using door-to-door vaccine programs to deliver the vaccines and fight vaccine disinformation in local communities
North Carolina launched their 'Doses to Doors' initiative in Mecklenburg County, the state's second most populous county which includes Charlotte - the biggest city in the state.
Currently, 49 percent of residents in Mecklenburg County are fully vaccinated, among the higher rates in the state.
Volunteers are canvassing communities in the counties with lower vaccination rates, providing them information on the immunizations.
If they want, residents can also receive a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
'We're not confrontational, it's not like you have to get the shot,' Robert Dawkins with Action NC, a non-profit providing volunteers for the program, told WBTV.
'But our job is to dispel rumors and things.'
County residents can also schedule an at-home vaccine appointment online.
A similar program has been launched in Randolph County, Georgia - a remote, primarily black, rural county more than 100 miles south of Atlanta.
The remote county has little access to information compared to many others, and the lack of infrastructure in the area has presented barriers to getting the vaccine.
For example, many vaccine appointments can be booked online, but around one-third of Randolph County residents do not have internet access, according to CNN.
Many do not have access to information on the vaccines, are skeptical of their effectiveness or believe false notions about the safety of the vaccines.
'If they still say that they want to wait and see, I listen, but it's kind of baffling, because I always ask: "What are you waiting for? To see how well things are going to go? We already know that. They go well when people are protected,"' Joyce Barlow, a nurse who is taking part in the program, told CNN.
Similar to North Carolina, Barlow and her team are going into the local community to deliver information about the vaccines to people and even offer them the shots if they would like.
The Milwaukee Health Department in Wisconsin is taking on a similar initiative because less than half of Milwaukee County's population is vaccinated.
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