Doubt, Bonus: A Surprising Southern Success
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Demographics alone would suggest Bradley County, Arkansas, should be struggling fiercely with local resistance against vaccines, just as many other counties are all across the southern U.S.
Yet in July, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that Bradley was the first county in Arkansas to inoculate at least half of its eligible population. At the time, that was more than twice the rate of several other Arkansas counties.
In this bonus episode we head to Bradley County to find out what’s going on. The answer provides a case study on how to combat pockets of vaccine skepticism.
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| 0:30.2 | Sitting down or standing up or how we're going to do this? |
| 0:33.1 | Sitting down would be good with me. |
| 0:34.4 | Did your son? |
| 0:35.2 | You prefer a rocking chair or a straight chair? |
| 0:37.7 | Now I got some more chairs. |
| 0:39.9 | Whatever chair you don't want. |
| 0:41.5 | It don't matter. It don't matter. You know, I love a good rocking chair. |
| 0:44.2 | Sit out. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm in Bradley County, Arkansas. |
| 0:47.6 | A little community of just over 10,000 people in the southeastern part of the state. |
| 0:53.2 | It's best known for the tall, skinny pine |
| 0:55.8 | trees that line the roads here, and a variety of pink tomato. I'm talking with Greg Reap. |
| 1:03.6 | I grew up here, so I've been here all my life other than a little college time. And I got started at a young age. |
| 1:13.9 | I got a chance to be an intern, literally, in the mayor's office here. |
| 1:17.9 | Greg is sort of famous in these parts. |
| 1:21.3 | He started his career writing grants at City Hall, in the county seat, Warren. |
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