An Honorable White Lie
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Hour 3 of A&G features the biggest story of the day (as far as Jack is concerned)--the new variant of COVID-19. Plus, Portland's mayor does an about-face on Antifa and we consider some New Year's Resolutions.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a reality that some people aren't going to want to get vaccinated or going to be |
| 0:22.4 | reluctant to get vaccinated. |
| 0:23.4 | It's going to take more work. |
| 0:25.2 | There's about 150 million Americans who get vaccinated for flu each year, about 60 million |
| 0:29.0 | or under the age of 15. |
| 0:30.7 | That's about 90 million people who get vaccinated for flu. |
| 0:32.8 | I think that's your low-hanging fruit for getting COVID vaccinations out. |
| 0:36.5 | Some high proportion of the people who get a flu vaccine are also going to get a COVID |
| 0:39.4 | vaccine. |
| 0:40.4 | If we just simply make this generally accessible to 65 and above this month, that's 50 |
| 0:45.4 | million Americans. |
| 0:46.4 | Probably about 30 million of them will take it. |
| 0:48.6 | That's your low-hanging fruit. |
| 0:49.8 | That's the pent-up demand. |
| 0:50.8 | We need to start working that off because trying to push it into very discrete populations, |
| 0:55.7 | you're going to be bumping up against people who don't want it. |
| 0:58.2 | That's going to create friction. |
| 0:59.2 | It's going to create a slowdown in trying to get this vaccination out. |
| 1:03.0 | We need to get more people vaccinated quickly and recognize that every vaccination at this |
| 1:06.6 | point really is a public health win. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, and we were supposed to get that, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. |
| 1:12.6 | We were supposed to have 20 million people with shots in their arms in December. |
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