Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy to Conquer Covid

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Michael Smerconish hosts Cuomo Prime Time in place of Chris discussing vaccine hesitancy with Dr. Leana Wen, the FBI raid on Rudy Giuliani with Andrew McCabe, and new polling showing political divides among Americans with Harry Enten and Charlie Dent. 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	Thank you, Anderson. I am not Chris Cuomo. I'm Michael Smirconish in for
0:04.8	Chris who is off tonight. Excited to be here. Welcome to prime time. A load to
0:09.4	tackle this hour in our fight to crush this pandemic amid all our recent gains
0:14.1	against the virus. A new major travel ban is about to go into effect starting
0:18.6	Tuesday. The Biden administration will be restricting travel to the US from
0:23.6	India where cases are absolutely exploding. This won't apply to permanent US
0:28.5	citizens or humanitarian workers. But on May 4th at midnight, non US
0:33.5	citizens won't be able to come to America from India until this ban is lifted.
0:38.6	The country is in dire straits reporting more than 300,000 COVID cases for the
0:44.2	ninth day in a row. Crematoriums are overflowing with bodies. Hospitals are
0:49.1	out of oxygen for patients and multiple variants are circulating there. Only
0:53.9	about 2% of India is vaccinated right now. Here in America, we can't afford any
1:00.2	more setbacks. We're so close to some semblance of normalcy. The White House
1:05.0	just announced today 100 million Americans are now fully vaccinated. That's
1:09.7	30% of the US, which is amazing. But what would be more amazing is if the
1:15.3	other 70% would join in or even 50% more to achieve herd immunity. 26% of
1:22.7	Americans right now say they will not get the vaccine among Republicans. That
1:27.9	number is 44%. So how do you change minds of folks like this?
1:35.6	You getting vaccinated? No, I don't need a vaccine. I had COVID last March.
1:41.2	Sick for all the five hours. I don't need a vaccine for that. And we're the
1:44.7	independent freedom people of America. We make our own decisions.
1:48.1	We're at a tipping point now at our lowest number of cases daily since
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