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Public workforce, a lot of them were hesitant truthfully. a lot of them needed extra incentive and reason -- now it's 94% of our public employees are vaccinated because of those mandates. >> okay, that's public employees. i'm talking about the private sector, though, which is a totally different issue, although i don't believe we ought to have the mandates in place. but you're able to get to a fairly high vaccination rate. people of new york understood the risk, and they've lived through it, they understand that and people in arkansas, as the risk increase, the vaccination rates increase as we...

Vaccinated all residents, that means about 1 million more doses since we put the mandates in place and we know, we saw it with our own workforce, our public workforce, a lot of them were hesitant truthfully. a lot of them needed extra incentive and reason now it's 94% of our public employees are vaccinated because of those mandates. >> okay, that's public employees. i'm talking about the private sector, though, which is a totally different issue, although i don't believe we ought to have the mandates in place, but you're able to get to a fairly high vaccination rate. people of new york underst...

Now makes up 90% of their new cases. >> the patients are younger and they're sicker. they're coming in later in the disease process, so we often have less therapies that are available for them. >> reporter: with the vaccination rates slowing and the country no longer on pace to meet president biden's goal of 70% of adults with at least one shot by july 4th, health officials are now trying to meet people where they are. in ohio, this pop-up clinic at an akron transit station brought doses directly to holdouts like james crumbley. >> what brought me here is i had to catch the bus to the other si...

And i'm hopeful and optimistic that won't be the case. >> again, just really quickly, are you seeing a correlation between where you're seeing the uptick in cases, are you seeing more people trying to get the vaccine once they see the cases are going up? >> i do see a correlation there, and so we've had in the last week a small rise in our cases and you can see more people getting vaccinated whenever they see the risk increase. one thing i worry about is that historically we've had about 5% of those get the two-shot regimen of vaccines, and 5% do not go back for the second shot. that is uptick...

>> reporter: the report says such meats cause cancer. eating 50 grams a day, about two slices of bacon, increases the risk for colon cancer 18%. red meat, which it says probably causes cancer, 100 grams a day, a piece the size of a deck of cards, raises the risk 17%. the report puts processed meats in the same category as cigarettes and asbestos. but the danger is not even close. the cdc says smoking increases risk your cancer by 2,000%. the $134 billion meat industry called the 800 studies the w.h.o. report looked at unconvincing. >> scientific evidence just simply doesn't support a causal li...