With All U.S. Adults Eligible, How Can More Be Convinced To Get Vaccinated?
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
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WHYY's Nina Feldman reports on the effort in Philadelphia, which is focused on racial equity.
Two groups of people who are most likely to say they won't get a shot are Republicans and white evangelical Christians. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN in Nashville reports on outreach to those groups.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's an idea public health officials are banking on. |
| 0:03.2 | I want to emphasize one point in particular about vaccines, which isn't always so obvious. |
| 0:08.3 | US Surgeon General Favick Murphy said this past week, increasing access to vaccines could |
| 0:14.5 | mean more public confidence in vaccination. And here's why the more people see those around them |
| 0:20.8 | get vaccinated, particularly family and friends, the more comfortable they become with getting |
| 0:26.4 | vaccinated themselves. In a way, the idea here is that getting vaccinated is contagious. |
| 0:34.0 | The reason that's such an important idea right now is that as of this week, all American 16 |
| 0:39.7 | and older are eligible to sign up for a shot. How many will actually do it is another question. |
| 0:46.0 | There's going to be some, you know, immediate demand and we're seeing that right now, |
| 0:50.4 | but after we work that off, I think when we start to get into younger people, |
| 0:54.2 | you're not going to see the demand be as risk. Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told NPR |
| 1:00.2 | this past week, with signs of vaccine demand slowing. I think we get to 150 million vaccines. |
| 1:06.7 | I think we struggle to get to 160 million. Beyond that, I think it's going to be difficult. |
| 1:12.8 | Consider this. Health officials are working to convince more Americans to get vaccinated. |
| 1:19.0 | And they say it's going to be hard, but not impossible. From NPR, I'm Audit Cornish. It's Monday, |
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