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The seven-day average of newly administered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine fell below 1 million per day for the first time since January, according to the CDC.

It is an undeniable fact that a majority of Pakistanis easily fall for conspiracy theories. Ever since the government started its vaccination programme, many posts that wrongly suggested that the...

>> are you ready to go it alone with just democrats? >> i dont think you should. i really dont. >> at all? >> i dont think right now, basically, we need to be bipartisan. if we cant become -- i always said this, ive never seen a pothole that had a republican or democrat name on it. it will bust your tire. >> that was joe manchin of west virginia yesterday expressing his hesitancy to pass a bill as he appears to be holding out for a bipartisan infrastructure deal. joining us now juanita tolliver....

Disease. >> correct. >> so, tell me where your hesitancy lies now. >> so, i know from my past being treated for various illnesses, usually i have bad side effects from that intervention. for me, that was my hesitancy, that i didnt want to exacerbate crohns disease because ive been in remission for so many years. >> quick. lets move on to you. tell us your hesitancy about vaccines. >> i mean, history of just not being able to trust vaccines. ive never been a vaccine guy. a lot of us as black men ...

Cant tell you. but i think this is a necessity. we need to get as many people vaccinated as we k we heard in georgia the numbers are low. alabama is even worse than that. whatever it takes to get people v vaccinated, i think thats what we need to do. >> i want to get to hesitancy in a second. its a real challenge here. lets talk about the announcement that the biden white housemaid. 80 million vaccine doses, sounds like a lot maybe, but really its a drop in the bucket when you look at how many v...

There is already a shortage of health care workers in some of these facilities, nursing facilities. the good news is there is a federal program thats going to be put out in just a couple weeks in which these facilities behind me are going to have to include all the people vaccinated, staff members and residents. if youre a family member of one of the folks living here, you can advocate on behalf of your family member, i want more people vaccinated. they put pressure on their staff members to get...

The game? >> ayman, these are the same hesitancy concerns that the general population has. thats what weve been finding out in the data. were waiting to see how things are going to go with everybody else. am i going to have time off paid for? if i have symptoms after i get my second shot, things like that. >> you would think they would be exposed to more of the data and science to answer some of the hesitancy that perhaps the general public is just not hearing as directly. i know that vaccinatio...

Happened, nothing is going on the green list and know you have people scrapping to get back from portugal. just two and half weeks after they said it was ok to get there. i can understand the hesitancy from anyone else to book something for the summer. youve got to be in a very unique position or be retired, or isolate for days at a time, take all those expensive pcr tests to risk going ahead and looking a holiday. supposing what it means for the rest of the season, its half term so its one of t...

These are national community gathering places, where the conversations happen. this is how tony described it. take a listen. >> for black people, this is our living room, our den. its the place we come to discuss things. >> in addition to the question of hesitancy, steph, its very important to bring up the real question of access as well. thats something the biden administration is also addressing by having free childcare partnering with day care centers to offer free childcare and have pharmaci...

I worked on aids research since 1985. we still dont have an aids vaccine. and the thought that a vaccine could be developed and deployed within ten months thats remarkably effective and very safe, and people arent sort of lining up to get that on their own is baffling to me. but that hesitancy exists. a lot of it is because of poor understanding by some people of the safety. we have to keep talking about that. we have to get trusted voices to let them feel like theyre part of the conversation. a...