Voices of the Unvaccinated

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Don, a 38-year-old single father from Pittsburgh, doesn’t want to be lumped into the “crazy anti-vax crowd.” Jeannie, a middle school teacher, has never vaccinated her teenage son and says she won’t start now. Lyndsey, from Florida, regrets having not had her late grandmother vaccinated against Covid-19. With the Delta variant of the coronavirus raging, we hear from some Americans who have decided not to get vaccinated. Guest: Jan Hoffman, a reporter covering behavioral health and health law for The New York Time; and Sophie Kasakove, a reporting fellow for The Times’s National Desk.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Vabaro. This is the Daily.
0:09.5	As the Delta variant rages across the U.S., the focus has turned to the estimated 90 million people
0:17.0	who are eligible for the vaccine, but have chosen not to get it.
0:22.0	Today, my colleagues spoke to some of those people.
0:33.0	It's Friday, August 6th.
0:40.0	Can you hear me because I've been told all day long that my voice is fading in and out?
0:44.0	No, I got you.
0:46.0	Thank you very much. Let me tell you what kind of trouble we're trying to get into here.
0:50.0	We are meaning like a fleet of reporters at the New York Times are interviewing a lot of people across America
0:58.0	to really understand the complexity of their reasons for not being vaccinated at this point.
1:04.0	We're trying to really look at what's thinking, what are the social pressures on people at this point?
1:13.0	Yeah, I am not a crazy person.
1:17.0	You know, when it comes to that, it's so hard to say I'm not vaccinated.
1:24.0	And you're automatically lumped into this crazy anti-vax crowd.
1:34.0	My colleague, Jan Hoffman, spoke with Don Driscoll, a 38-year-old single dad living in suburban Pittsburgh.
1:43.0	So, tell me, before we take a deep dive into vaccines, tell me a little bit about yourself, DJ, what's your full name?
1:53.0	Or do you go by DJ?
1:55.0	Hi, DJ, I'm Don. My full name's Donald.
1:58.0	Okay, and what sort of work do you do?
2:02.0	I'm an accessibility writer, mostly education, like textbooks, making everything accessible to non-sided students.
2:11.0	Do you live on your own?
2:14.0	I, me and my daughter, I have seven-year-old, I have a primary custody of.
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