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Go fight, win. go fight, win. ♪ >> reporter: and even though the entire cheer squad is here to support people, i have to mention in talking to those girls, only about half of them have gotten a shot. the other half are still hesitant. one of them told me she is scared to get the vaccine even with family members who have had covid in the past year, and that is just an example of some of the hesitancy that health officials here in alabama and around the country are battling. >> its coming for us...

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And much more transmissible. >> and there are new questions about the effectiveness of that one and done single dose johnson & johnson vaccine. one study out suggesting it may be less effective against this oncoming delta variant. weve also learned a white house official and an aide to speaker pelosi have tested positive for the virus despite being fully vaccinated. it is suspected one case may have developed after contact with those texas democrats now in d.c. at least six members of their dele...

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Are avoidable and preventable. obviously there are going to be some people in the availability of people and their response to vaccine that youll see some who are vaccinated and still get into trouble and hospitalized and die. the overwhelming disproportionate number of people dont get vaccinated, which is why we say this is very preventable. >> theres always been an anti-vaccine 10% to 15%, but it isnt just the 10% to 15%, theres clearly been a political divide thats put over this. have you dis...

Pockets of vaccine skepticism and hesitancy, many of the former guys own supporters feel they dont need it or they dont trust the vaccine. a new abc news "washington post" poll reveals 47% of republicans say they arent likely to get vaccinated compared to 6% of democrats. the poll finds a lower rate of vaccinations in regions dominated by the gop. while about 75% of people in the northeast say that they have received at least one shot and 62% of those in the west say the same, the number drops t...

When we have the option for it to be a different way. and if for some reason you dont want to get vaccinated, you cant get vaccinated or youre someone for whom the vaccine is not likely to work, someone whos immunocompromised, for example, you can still wear a mask, which also protects you from these variants. >> and what is the reason for this hesitancy? we see a lot of people very conservative republicans, some conservatives in right-wing media out there disparaging the vaccine, even some of t...

Way, we are always kind of ready to analyse and criticise things and decisions the government have made and so forth, but i think the vaccine campaign has been incredible. the uptake across all age groups has been fantastic, so thats great news. there is one thing we do really need to focus on, and i think that is that there are certain communities, and particularly areas with large population densities, multi—generational households and so forth, where access to the vaccine has been not quite...

Independence from the virus as other countries face renewed lockdowns. this morning well look back to where weve been and well look forward to the challenges ahead, as the growing delta variant and vaccine hesitancy pose a threat to our own recovery here. well be asking what could we have done better? what have we learned? why do sought some people get perilously ill while others remain asymptomatic, and finally, how prepared are we for when, not if, but sadly when the next pandemic hits us? >> ...