Some speculation here.
I think the population taking the shots is the one tptb didn’t want to.
Remember, President Trump was initially pushing the vaccines and I suspect that tptb were counting on his followers being so blindly loyal to him that they would do anything he asked them to, which is taking these shots with its known to them, consequences.
Problem is, biden gets elected and the shots become widely available and the ones caving the quickest to the Covid fear porn, are the democrats. So now they are lining up in droves waiting for the latest booster to become available.
I actually took a foray over to DU to see what they think and the DUmmies are about peeing themselves in excitement over the thought of getting the latest vax. Several of them were counting the days, literally, until they could become eligible for the next shot.
I think the plan backfired because tptb expected the right to take them because Trump and the left to reject them because Trump.
What happened was that they didn’t expect the right to think for themselves and the left to be such a bunch of paranoid wusses.
Now the left is gleefully killing themselves off.