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Try to be a trusted source. a lot of people will trust their pastor and trust their religious leaders, more so they would a community health site of that nature even when we did our vaccination event back in march, we purchased a building used to be a department store so were in an existing mall. and right down probably 300 yards from our front door the government institution had a vaccination site set up, but a lot of people in the community werent going there. we argued or put the case to the ...

Chest tubes. the workers on the front line here, many of them are past their breaking point, but somehow they are mustering just enough strength every day to keep going, and then they wake up. they do it again and they try to do it again. they get back in, and for some of them it has become too much. we met one nurse in the icu who said she was leaving and going to another department because she could not watch another person die. they want people in this area to get vaccinated, but many residen...

That could be used against you. also, health systems and insurance companies use certain billing codes and supply chains for initial doses. its assumed theyll use other systems or billing codes for boosters. so you could mess up things organizationally as well and then number three, there is the ethics question. there are many people around the world who have yet to receive a first dose, so jumping in line for a third, there are questions there as well. so this is an on going conversation, john....

Union, there is a race and class discrimination in the spread of the vaccine and the access to the vaccine. and if you look at america, it is primarily the republican states, it is primarily the white community that is standing up and saying we dont want this, the conspiracy theories, the option to say no, the pushback against compulsory mandatory vaccines isnt it all coming mostly from the white republican sort of states of the u.s.? what should i call it but white privilege. >> that is whats d...

Decision. >> reporter: in the u.s. there are plenty of shots to go around. most other countries like india, far less fortunate. >> hesitancy, if youll forgive me, is a very polite understated word to describe self indulgence and bad behavior in my opinion. >> reporter: 175 experts just wrote to president biden urging an uptick in manufacturing vaccines for export. deltas spread in the developing word, they say, is an omen that highlights the risk of newer emerging variants, some of which may tur...

Factor and i know the worry factor, for me, the vaccine is a way to go. >> in terms of the myocarditis from the vaccine, is a treatable? doesnt last long? >> it only lasts a week or to, and it is treatable with nonsteroidals and it gets better almost 100 percent of the time. even hospitalizations which are very rare are usually very brief. i talked to a pediatric cardiologist about this he said no-brainer, its way worse from covid itself. >> lets put a couple things on the screen the covid cases...

Were still a predominantly african-american church, 70 to 75% african-american, other 25 to 30% are other. and in the african-american community, this is something that sometimes gets overlooked, there is legitimate historical reasons why people are initially hesitant. some of the things that have happened medically, going back to tuskegee, experiment and things of that nature and my own grandmother died of infa zee ma because she didnt want to go to the the hospital over 30 years ago. because o...

Age bracket of getting the shot, our adults will step up. i want to see our kids in school. well work hard with our school district to make that happen. >> weve been talking about this from the very beginning. first it was about the inequities of health care, and then once there was a vaccine, the inequities in what we seeing in terms of demographics, in terms of vaccinations. sometimes thats hesitancy, sometimes its access. what are you finding is the biggest hurdle -- you have more than 56% of...

Supporting bill de blasio for doing something similar. we know that vaccines are the single most important tool for us confronting covid and protecting people. we also know that there has been, you know, that teachers have been extraordinary in terms of taking the shot. our federal governments are showing, the white houses figures are showing that over 90% of teacher members have gotten the vaccine. we also know that there is some real hesitancy in the population. >> im sorry to interrupt. we ha...

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