happening right now, carlos? reporter: two new developments since we last joined you in the prior hour. the first is we re finally getting reports of some of the damage here in broward we re told a family of five had to be taken from a home up in pompano beach, north of where we are, after a tree fell into their house. we re told the entire family is doing okay. we re getting our first look at the search and rescue teams down in miami. and they ve provided us with some video of one of their teams going, essentially, neighborhood by neighborhood looking for folks that may be stranded in their cars because of all the flooding brought on by this tropical system. we re talking about nearly a foot of rain that has hit parts of miami-dade county. in miami aillone, which is wher we saw a lot of flooding in the downtown area and financial district, cars have been towed the entire night because of getting stalled from 7 to 8 inches of rain that fell in the morning hours. we re told
they were actually put in place to hold the line. to block any kind of gun regulation. we see it up to the supreme court who s deciding a catastrophic case about guns in new york right now. that s true up and down the line. people are not putting the political system to navigate, negotiate. there s no reward for compromise, no reward for being a centrist in our system. so in our way the popular opinion, as important as it is, it s secondary to the fact our political system doesn t allow for the kind of horse trading needed right now, that we ve seen in other countries that have dealt with this issue. that s a very sad commentary. mental illness comes up when talking about mass shootings but you penned a paper in the journal, social science and medicine, last year proposing a five-point agenda for research to study the root causes that goes beyond just the mental
Women 71% less likely to want COVID-19 vaccination, Texas A&M research finds
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not intend to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them.
Published in Social Science and Medicine, in the study, survey respondents answered a series of questions; these ranged from asking about their perspective on vaccines, to their behavior towards COVID-19 itself, including, why or why not they intended to get themselves vaccinated.
Women, were found to be 71%
less likely to plan on getting vaccinated, researchers found, followed by Black Americans at 41%.
Survey results also showed that politics play a role: each one-point increase in conservatism, increased the odds of vaccine refusal by 18%.