It's Wednesday, July 7th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm getting in rest again. This is what a day the podcast that's also a treatment

for mild to moderate sunburns with no FDA approval.

Yeah, if you hold your phone speaker up to your bright red shoulder, something might happen,

but also something might not.

So...

Yeah, the question sort of becomes, uh, how bad do you want to feel better?

Yeah, I mean, I think not bad enough. You're not doing this already.

On today's show, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed joins us to talk about vaccinations in the US and

some responses to the Delta variant, plus we'll have headlines, but first the latest.

So please get vaccinated now. It works. It's free. It's never been easier, and it's never

been more important. Do it now for yourself and the people you care about, for your neighborhood,

for your country. It sounds corny, but it's a patriotic thing to do.

Yeah, I mean, even beyond being patriotic, it's like a life-saving thing to do. He said that too,

though. So anyway, that was President Biden yesterday once again encouraging Americans to get

vaccinated, but of course that plea came after America fell short of a goal that he set for July

4th. The administration wanted to hit 70% of adults in the country with at least one shot of a

COVID-19 vaccine, and they came up just short at around 67%. So that's very close, but still a

little bit missing the mark. Yeah, that's right. And this came after the White House used a lot of

different tactics to try and reverse those falling vaccination rates while at the same time dealing

with the more transnessable Delta variant that is now the dominant strain in the US.

In that short speech, he gave yesterday Biden set a new goal, 160 million people fully

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