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Players vaccinated but my reporting for "rolling stones" indicates vaccine holdouts make up the sort of secret society of straight up antivaxxers. the family of kyrie irving a nets superstar here in brooklyn who once said the earth was flat which it isnt. they are out here denying the vaccine has worked which it has. they are talking about, quote, dr. fallacy. another player, jonathan isaac, was trying to explain masks dont work. then a conspiracy theory about moderna mind control which has spre...

And you had people of hesitance. i saw some good news this past week that shows the disparity against white americans and black and hispanic americans. all disappeared. >> black americans, 71 or 72% of white american of 73%. have gotten the vaccine. the message is getting out. it seems to me in community of people of color and its making a huge difference. >> absolutely. >> thats gluz. it took a lot of it to work. there is a lot of hesitancy in the black community and the brown community, based ...

The most in one month since the pandemic began. the agency also saying compared to other covid patients pregnant women are twice as likely to need intensive care and 70% more likely to die. the other alarming numbers. right now only 31% of all pregnant women are vaccinated, and just under 16% of pregnant black women. with us now is a board certify ob-gyn. thanks for being with us. doctor, its staggering how many pregnant women arent vaccinated and then the racial disparities which are also very ...

Who are admitted to the hospital 1 in 3 need respiratory support. it is really scary and hitting our pregnant patients so it would be to get vaccinated. >> when you talk to people who come to you with pregnancies and youre telling them to get vaccinated, what reasons might they give to resist? >> you know, i understand the hesitancy. people just want to do the best thing for their baby. and this has been confusing. pandemic medicine is scary, it changes quickly. and theres been a lot of misinfor...

Understand the hesitancy, especially early on, but i think by now we have given this vaccine to so many women, women who have gotten pregnant, women that delivered a baby, women who plan to get pregnant, and theres been no findings of any concern, so, you know, we have the same problem when we recommended the flu vaccine to pregnant women but weve done a good job of that. well keep encouraging pregnant women to get this because no baby should grow up without their mom. >> and i think its so impo...

How disconcerting is that, only 34%? >> of course its disconcerting but not surprising. weve had a vaccine available for 12 to 15-year-olds for several months, yet only about 40%, 43% have chosen to vaccinate their children to protect their children. i can understand the initial hesitancy. its a new vaccine. we tend to see our children as more vulnerable. but once the vaccine gets out there and its being given to a lot of people, its clearly safe, clearly effective, hopefully that hesitancy will...

Flight. >> former u.s. president barack obama there about the warning of the threat to democracy as he broke down on his presidential center in chicago tuesday. he said he hopes touch-tone center democratic ideas at a time americans are seeing more division and increasingly bitter conflict. now, lebron james says hes received the covid-19 vaccine on tuesday. the nba superstar confirmed hes gotten the dose despite his initial hesitancy. >> everyone has their own choice to do what they feel is r...

Vaccinated. i feel bad for the 593 people, the less than 1% that are going to leave, but were focused on doing the right thing for united airlines. >> joining me right now for more on this is cnns chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, what do you think the united example shows? >> well, it shows these are tough times, but mandates do work. you kind of hope that, with all the tough pandemic news that weve had over the past couple years that more people would have been willing to j...

Dealing a different chemical formula or a different type of vaccine. its the same one, and look, weve got now literally billions of those dose it is of mrna vaccine. im really optimistic, and dont forget, moderna is also in trial with children, so we should be getting data from them. but you know, jose, like all things its not soon enough. but then we have a challenge. its not as if all these children are going to get vaccinated overnight. i expect were going to still see some hesitancy even amo...

Were to be more transparent about the vaccine or encourage others to get it? >> well, i think it would be helpful if he encouraged others to get it, but he has the right not to do that. you know, you cant force everyone to do what you think is correct. so people do have the right not to participate in using the vaccine. but if theyre going to do that, they should not put other people at risk because they might become contaminated. their children might end up at risk. thats not fair. >> i want to...