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Cnn's dr. jonathan rainer. here he is. >> really a whirl winld of conspiracy theories that people are die because of covid vaccines when, in fact, we have safety data from over 600 million people in this country who have received these vaccines showing they've been incredibly safe and well tolerated. and the use of these public tragedies to promote ant anti-vaxing, i think, are just despicable. >> sports journalist grant wall died while covering the world cup in qatar, and accusations flew on social media that covid vaccines caused his aneurysm. his wife felt compelled to write an opinion colu...

The number of Americans in the hospital with COVID-19 has declined 15% since mid-January to about 124,000, Johns Hopkins data shows.

And amanda carpenter. good to see you, john. president biden announcing new vaccine mandates that could affect 100 million americans. what are you hearing from the white house? >> reporter: in terms of why they didn't go further is the biggest proposal i've heard from people like our colleague jonathan rainer who you have on your show a lot, the doctor has said he should have mandated air travelers be vaccinated. the white house says they didn't do that because they think it would jam up airports and impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a hig...