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Sh -- patients, thats our priority but to protect the health care workers, as well and their families. as you know, the national medical association represents black physicians and patients across the country and most of our patients represent under served and under resourced populations that had low vaccination rates and so are at higher risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death from covid. >> now, it is also become a political football is that when you hear people on the right fringe ...

Stage? >> well, frankly, i think everyone at the cdc is in a better position than a doctor like me to make that decision. certainly for myself, im fully vaccinated. im wearing a mask in public. i think that it does help slow the spread and at this point, we have such a level of vaccine not only hesitancy but just outright refusal among people where this is something that we have to do to get through this coming surge. >> yeah. its likened to wearing a seat belt and having an airbag. just another...

Represent underserved and underresourced populations, that have had low-vaccination rates. and so, are at higher risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death from covid. >> now, it has, also, become a political football. when you hear people on the right, fringe talking about who is not vaccinated. they say, well, they are mostly black and brown minority populations who are in poor areas. now, we happen to know that the largest number of unvaccinated is 37% in the current read. and its whi...

Coming home. this is somebody elses life. as looping as im doing somethi im fine. i have to get this laundry done, as long as my mind is moving, wait one year, whats one year from when the vaccine started being released. one year is not bad. after that well decide which ones that hit the market are best for us and our family. so it was never, no, were not doing it. we need to see which one is best for us, which one had the least side effects. people are complaining the least about. whereas, what...

Virus by getting more people vaccinated. and there still might be more hesitancy now because of this new information that came out, but health officials are saying that essentially when you do get vaccinated it increases your chances of getting sick. also prevents death, tenfold. so they are stressing the importances of still getting vaccinated, moving forward. but obviously this is a hot button issue, a very political issue, and last night dr. rochelle walensky the head of the cdc was on fox ne...

>> thanks for having me. so, you know, i suppose the most striking thing is just seeing how the u.s.s vaccination program appears to have slowed down, while canadas just inches forward and forward. weeks ago it was a bit tighter between the two countries, but you know, as of the past week weve seen canada see just under 56% of the total population fully vaccinated, 70.4% receiving at least one dose. meanwhile, in the u.s., weve seen 49.5% of the population fully jabbed and just under 57.5% getti...

$100 incentive, thats going to be the deal breaker -- deal maker, move a lot of people to come in and get vaccinated. the other thing is mandates. what i announced last week were public employees -- and this has now been spreading like wildfire around the country. we need mandates. public sector, private sector, we need mandates because the hesitancy is honest and real in so many cases, but it doesnt solve the problem to just look at the hesitancy, observe it, admire it, as opposed to address it...

Biden himself engaged in a little bit of this from the podium today watch. >> i want you to know im going to do everything i can to encourage the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, that includes addressing hesitancy and misinformation head on. jillian: laura: state medical boards announced that physicians and other healthcare professionals could be at risk of losing their medical licenses if they spread what they deem to be covid 19 vaccine misinformation on social media, online and in regular medi...

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Heres the thing, folks. weve got to get this done. we are in the midst of an outbreak of the delta variant. of course you know that. there are places in this country like florida and missouri now seeing hospitalizations at all-time highs. and keep in mind what we learned last year, because theres a really annoying tendency for all of us to forget. its a seasonal virus and it mutates. we know those two things. whatever were seeing now is the run-up for the fall and the winter. so whatever it take...