CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta September 26, 2021 21:40:00
School without giving them almost a dozen vaccines. so parents are very accustomed to that. i was surprised at how relatively few parents were willing to vaccinate their adolescents. only somewhere about 55% of adolescents have been vaccinated. but we've seen this before with reluctance. you know, there's an hpv vaccine which is basically a cancer vaccine which only about 60% of adolescents have gotten. so i think we need to do a better job of educating parents that this will protect their children. this will protect their families. it will also protect the economic livelihood of the family. i...