Sixty-Six Percent Of Alabamians Still Need The Shot. Can Tommy Tuberville Help?

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The White House says it is "following the science" on masks after the CDC issued new guidance, but some experts say they're falling short on the social science: how to convince the remaining 40 percent of American adults to get vaccinated.

Alabama has the lowest vaccination rate in the nation and residents there aren't likely to listen to President Biden. Can football coach-turned-Senator Tommy Tuberville convince the rest of the state to get inoculated?

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national correspondent Debbie Elliott, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Andy. I'm aboard the Miss Ashley out here in the middle of the
0:04.7	Chesapeake Bay trying to catch some fish. He is really hot out here and the fish
0:09.3	aren't fighting and this podcast was recorded at 208 Eastern on Wednesday,
0:15.7	July 28th. Things may have changed before you hear it and hopefully we will catch
0:20.7	a walker. Okay here's the show.
0:24.9	So funny story. I was on that boat. Really? And we only caught one fish and he told me
0:36.1	that he had recorded a time stamp and I didn't believe him. You were there with him
0:41.2	while he was recording it. We were out there for four hours. Maldiple people
0:44.8	threw up and we only caught one fish. Hey there it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:49.8	I've got Detro. I cover the White House. I'm Tabor Keith. I also cover the White House.
0:54.6	And I'm Dominica Montanero, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. So I mean I
0:59.7	think it's clear what we're going to talk about today. Suddenly the pandemic seems
1:02.8	like it is not in the rearview mirror. The Delta variant is surging particularly in
1:07.8	places with a lot of unvaccinated people. And now the Centers for Disease Control
1:12.0	and Prevention has revised its guidance on wearing masks. The agency is now
1:16.1	recommending that fully vaccinated people wear masks in indoor public spaces if they
1:21.6	live in areas with significant or high spread. Tam what is going on here? And there
1:26.3	are actually a lot of areas of this country with significant or high spread. And
1:30.8	what's happening is things have changed. The Delta variant is now the dominant
1:37.4	variant in the US. It is significantly more contagious than earlier variants. And
1:43.4	Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said that they needed to make this
1:49.4	change in guidance because they have new data showing that people who are
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