On a public health level, vaccines are not about protecting an individual, but about protecting society. But you can't sell that to a highly individualistic society like the US, especially to a certain wing/faction of that society. Unfortunately.

Throw in politicians desperately trying to turn off the bad news coming out of long-term care facilities, and you get vaccination programs aimed at halting bad news, not at ending the pandemic. The latter would focus shots on disease vectors, not on subjects with comorbidities whose illnesses more often turn fatal - and into bad numbers.