Biden administration would welcome Trump’s help in promoting vaccine

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The White House said it would welcome former Pres. Trump’s help in promoting the coronavirus vaccine to his supporters. A recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows 47% of people who supported Trump in the 2020 election said they wouldn’t get the vaccine. Pres. Biden urged “all local docs and ministers and priests to talk about why - why it's important to get in - to get that vaccine, and even after that, until everyone is in fact vaccinated, to wear this mask.” Former CDC Director Tom Frieden joins AC360 to discuss vaccine hesitancy. Plus, the President and other top officials, including Vice Pres. Kamala Harris and First Lady Jill Biden, have started their cross-country “Help is Here” tour to promote the Covid relief plan. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Anderson Cooper how the package will benefit Americans. Airdate: March 15, 2021 Guests: Dr. Tom Frieden Secy. Pete Buttigieg 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	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight with Welcome News for anyone wanting their pre-COVID lives back.
0:05.3	It comes, however, with the dark cloud.
0:06.9	The good news first, according to the CDC, the country is now averaging nearly 2.4 million
0:11.5	vaccinations a day.
0:12.7	In all, more than 109 million Americans have now gotten at least one shot, slights like
0:17.4	the one that Vice President Harris visited today in Las Vegas, and more than 11 percent
0:21.6	of the population has now fully vaccinated.
0:24.2	Late today, Connecticut's governor said he expects to expand statewide eligibility to
0:28.9	anyone aged 16 and up by the fifth and next month.
0:32.6	Other states are taking similar steps as vaccine supply ramps up and federal health kicks
0:36.5	in.
0:37.5	This is happening as new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to fall and evidence
0:41.6	grows, most notably from a recent major study in Israel, that the current crop of COVID
0:46.6	vaccines prevent the spread of infection, not just illness.
0:51.4	We've always believed that they're having that effect.
0:53.6	We didn't know the full magnitude of that benefit, but all of the incremental evidence coming
0:58.1	out suggests that the impact on the reduction in transmission could be quite strong.
1:02.7	And if that's the case, the vaccine creates what we call dead end hosts.
1:06.2	A lot of dead end hosts, meaning people will no longer be able to transmit the infection.
1:11.5	So more people than ever, getting shots that appear to be more beneficial to closer you
1:15.5	look, the kind of breakthrough we've all been hoping for.
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