Should I Get a Booster? And the Politics of Vaccines (with David Axelrod)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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To begin, Andy has thoughts on CPAC attendees cheering the US not hitting its vaccine goal. Then, David Axelrod, longtime Democratic strategist, joins Andy for a deep dive into the topic of the unvaccinated. They also contemplate how the pandemic will affect the 2022 and 2024 elections and lament the politicization of public health.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Learn more about the Pew Research Center’s Validated Voters survey on the 2020 election: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/
Listen to Andy and Lanhee Chen on The Hugh Hewitt show from February: https://hughhewitt.com/video/wh-covid-response-teams-andy-slavitt-and-hoovers-lanhee-chen-on-vaccine-rollout-variant-risk/
Read President Biden’s July 4th speech: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/05/remarks-by-president-biden-celebrating-independence-day-and-independence-from-covid-19/
Check out David’s opinion piece in The New York Times about his daughter Lauren and proposed changes to Medicaid funding for people with intellectual disabilities: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/opinion/disability-funding-medicaid.html
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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0:53.2	The conservative political conference CPAC is going on this weekend.
0:57.6	I want to play for you a clip of one of the speakers from that event yesterday.
1:04.9	They were hoping, the government was hoping, that they could sort of sucker 90% of the
1:09.2	population into getting vaccinated, and it isn't happening, right?
1:14.4	There's a younger people...
1:18.9	I'm going to cut them off right there because he just goes on to say things that are not
1:22.4	true about the vaccine.
1:24.0	But what I wanted to get your reaction to is the crowd cheering when this gentleman talks
1:30.8	about how the government was not able to achieve a 90% vaccine goal.
1:34.8	The crowd cheers as a public health official.
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