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It's important to relay that message to the community and again to counter some of that misinformation and to counter some of the things out there that just aren't true. this is affecting children. >> reporter: a group of local physicians, andrea, sent a signed letter to superintendents in this area pleading with them to reconsider a mask mandate. i asked a superintendent in washington county about this. he said they are still not requiring masks. he says they're re-evaluatingy every day, but emphasize this will be a local decision and emphasize the importance of personal choice here, andrea? ...

Is that this entire scenario is going to play out something similar to, you know, 1939 germany. okay. what this country does not need any more divisiveness between the right and left, vaccinated and unvaccinated. it's a bad thing. people who are unvaccinated, you know, they really don't get why people are angry with them and they're digging in their heels and saying, well i don't care why they are angry at me i'm not doing it. in this country, this is something that, particularly in the last year, when people say i'm not doing something, you know, we are enabling their right to free speech. th...

Provably false statements about the vaccine. and so that tells us that there are at least in part, if not in full, influence of things that aren't true that they're hearing from people. i would like to think that happens innocently but you and i both know, don, a lot of it is perpetrated by a machine that says we have to stop this thing from being successful for whatever reason. >> give me some of the five. >> that the covid vaccine itself will give you covid. that's one . so, you know, and the other four can all be found in a survey done by kaiser family foundation. and we can play those, we ...

Variant, andy slavitt. thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. we were really getting really close to a normal summer, but now these cases are up 145% from just two weeks ago. hospitalizations and death also up, but almost all of those people are unvaccinated, andy slavitt. is this the toll that this misinformation that we're seeing, especially what's coming from the right media, is that what's happening here? >> well, this is the unvaccinated pandemic. i think that's the theme of 2021. and we learned something interesting, and it's so profound, sometimes i can't even believe it. but o...

It's about a dozen influ we think so -- influ we think soars that put out the majority of the vaccines present themselves as the only people telling the truths, right? so that's what makes it so particularly twisted is you have people who don't trust other sources coming to these people who are telling them this and who are monetizing the misinformation. they are building an audience off of telling people things that aren't true and they know aren't true. that's the thing. it's not that they're not smart enough to know this and have the right information, it's that they know this is how they g...