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Creating vaccine mandates, after ordering all hospital and nursing home employees to get the shot or face being fired. the states governor is turning to the national guard to fill the gap and police officers across the country are pushing back against the mandates. dozens of state troopers in massachusetts just resigned rather than get a shot and the cdc director has nothing to offer when it comes to this disaster. >> if we are losing health care workers is potential in the process does not actu...

New york this morning and health care workers refusing to comply with the requirement. i want to play for you what she said. >> it absolutely creates a challenge i would say to do some work t work to educate these health care workers to understand their hesitancy so we can get them vaccinated and get them back to work. >> is it a question of educating your employees still? would you agree with that? >> well, it still helps, right. were continuing to do that. i dont know frankly if some of these ...

>> incredible. and dr. madad, as rehema reports about these vaccine-hesitant health care workers, you tweeted, you said theres an incredible amount of misinformation and disinformation circulating even those working in health care arent impervious to it help us understand how that shows up among health care workers, folks who take an oath to do no harm. >> i think its important to understand, when we talk about health care workers, thats a very large group when we look at physicians and the rece...

Alicia: i would love to. charlie: it would be smarter if we let joey, on the face of it this just proves that the vaccine mandates dont work, theyve been such a terrible job of convincing people about the efficacy and safety that you even have the most important people as joey was saying healthcare workers who have real hesitancy about this in the idea, in addition to being creepy and authoritarian to force people to take a vaccine that they are not sure about, is simply does not work, as we see...

>> i would say that the majority, its only 6%. thats not much. thats pretty good, actually, but i would say the majority that would have to do with misinformation, even though theres a lack of access, everyone is constantly putting out information of how they can get it. you can even get it at your drugstore. so i think the hesitancy is mostly people who dont have the information, who dont believe in anything and hopefully, well be able to change their minds and hopefully it wont be because some...

Vaccine. in your work as a journalist, in your own life, have you encountered people who just still have questions, who arent ready to get it yet? >> well, my immediate family, everyone is vaccinated. i do have one cousin who does not believe in the vaccines and unfortunately one of those that believes theyre going to inject a chip on your arm. its just one as of now, but the majority are. but i do hear some people around me. remember, i live in florida. theres a lot of hesitancy here in florida...

The information and maybe counter some of that misinformation that you were just talking about a few minutes ago. >> im so sorry to hear about your niece. this has become personal for so many people either through that experience or talking to loved ones who are hesitant to get the vaccine. in your work as a journalist, in your own life, have you encountered people who just still have questions, who arent ready to get it yet? >> well, my immediate family, everyone is vaccinated. i do have one co...

Survey. only 6% of unvaccinated latinos said they definitely wont get the shot. your sense of the extent to which this is about misinformation, disinformation and the extent this continues to be about access. >> i would say that the majority, its only 6%. thats not much. thats pretty good, actually, but i would say the majority that would have to do with misinformation, even though theres a lack of access, everyone is constantly putting out information of how they can get it. you can even get it...

To go manufactures in the game. cdc was not going to be able to build the testing. this is a question that doesnt directly bear on your considerable expert here in many areas. but were approaching 700 americans that weve lost to this thing. were losing 2000 human lives a day. are you surprised that it hasnt done more? the shakeup our politics. that it hasnt done more to overcome some of the vaccine resistance and hesitancy weve seen and some of the rhetoric weve seen about masking and litigation...

2,000 lives lost a day. hasnt been that high in more than six months. >> we are going to be living because of some peoples hesitancy to take vaccines at a plateau, hundreds of people, maybe even a thousand dying on a daily basis for the foreseeable future. and by that i mean a year or two. >> reporter: and late wednesday the fda in the united states has granted emergency use authorization for a third booster dose of the pfizer vaccine for people 65 and up. also people at risk for severe disease ...