Joe Rogan said he will not get the Covid-19 vaccine on a recent episode of
The Joe Rogan Experience, the most popular podcast on Spotify, because he is healthy and isn’t sure about the vaccine safety both issues that have been debunked on his very podcast.
When asked by guest Jamar Neighbors if he would take the vaccine, Rogan said, “No. I mean, I would if I felt like I needed it. I just feel like if you maintain your health and I think for some people it’s important, for some people it’s good.”
And while Rogan himself is consistently self-deprecating on his podcast (“Here’s a really important point: I’m a fucking moron,” he said in response to the controversy over his endorsement of Bernie Sanders), he is one of the most listened to people in the world (his show was downloaded more than 190 million times per month before Spotify paid him more than $100 million to take his library and talents to the streaming service last May). And this is at a time when we nee
February 13, 2021 Share
In a makeshift vaccination center at a safety-net Chicago hospital, a patient services aide ushers an older woman with a cane toward a curtained cubicle.
“Here, have a seat right here,” Trenese Bland says helpfully, preparing the woman for a shot offering protection against the virus that has ravaged their Black community. But the aide has doubts about getting her own inoculation.
“It’s not something that I trust right now,’’ says Bland, 50, who worries about how quickly the COVID-19 vaccines were developed. “It’s not something that I want in me.’’
Just 37% of the 600 doctors, nurses and support staff at Roseland Community Hospital have been vaccinated even though health care workers are first in line. Many holdouts come from the mostly Black, working class neighborhoods surrounding the hospital, areas hard hit by the virus yet plagued with vaccine reluctance.