Anti-Vaxxers and Worries About Vaccine Hesitancy

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CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Covid-19 vaccine distribution is finally rolling out, but some Americans are still skeptical. CNN Correspondent Elle Reeve travels to rural Tennessee to hear people’s concerns and speak with medical and policy experts about how to overcome vaccine hesitancy through building trust. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coronavirus vaccines are now poised to be distributed all over the country and yet
0:13.8	COVID-19 is still surging. The political debate over public health policy is as heated as ever.
0:20.6	We'll vaccines meet the same resistance that we've seen to masks. The agency is very concerned
0:31.8	about vaccine hesitancy. That's FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Haunt speaking at a news conference
0:37.8	on Saturday the day after they announced the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine.
0:43.5	We believe that that transparency as well as the rigorous scientific review that we've done
0:48.1	goes a long way to providing confidence and trust with American people and FDA and this vaccine.
0:53.2	As a physician I got to tell you I've been alarmed by all these conspiracy theories and
0:57.5	disinformation that's been so widespread this year. Even basic public health measures have become
1:03.7	politicized. So for today's episode I'm going to hand things over to CNN's Ellie Reeve who's
1:10.2	been reporting on the anti-vax phenomenon in rural Tennessee. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. CNN's chief
1:17.6	medical correspondent and this is coronavirus fact versus fiction.
1:33.9	Greg Locke is a pastor in conservative Wilson County, Tennessee. He says he's grown his
1:38.8	congregation this year by protesting COVID control measures. There's a lot of sincere people
1:43.7	that are doing their best to put out of vaccine but that doesn't mean I'm going to take it.
1:47.2	I don't believe the government can tell me you know when or how I can stick a needle in my arm
1:51.1	or my kids arms. Super government overreach. Locke says he moved services outdoors not to limit
1:56.5	the spread of COVID but to handle all the new people who've come. I'm saying the sickness is real.
2:01.8	I'm saying the pandemic is not. I don't understand what you mean and you say pandemic's not real.
2:07.6	Pandemic is not real. But what do you think a pandemic is? Not COVID-19.
2:12.3	But what do you think a pandemic is? I think we stuck on that's past our Locke's PR guy telling me to move on.
2:20.8	Well, why can't you answer it? There's no pandemic. COVID-19 is not a pandemic.
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