>> J jt O or 15% of American
adults have gototn the latest
covid booster.
Dedend for the vaccine H H
dropped sharply since I I was
first introduced at ththheight
of T T pandemic.
Thth is partly bececse the
govevement response to C Cid has
beeneno politically chargeded
Judy woodrdrf spoke to public
health experer about that
response.
Part of her ongoing series.
>> In March O 2020, manan
Americans S re united in their
fear of theew, unknownirus.
As people grgrple with the
images of overwhelmed D spitals
anan deathbroad and in the U.S.
Hopefully it W wl not be much
longer.
>>Ublic opinion quickly
lintered as governororissued
stayayt-home orders to slolothe
spreadadf the virus.
>> Itt S suld be a choice, not T
mandate.
>> People took to the streets too
protest theheconomic and social
impact of businessss closures,
school shutdowns, and D St
mandateses
-- M mk mandates.
>> My businesssss being
dedemated.
>> The risk of sprere in schools
is low.
The H hm we are doing grow
children inside.
L elders including presidede
trump offefed conflicting
information, , cluding
reremmendations on M making and
other prevention methoho.
>> T T CDC is advising the U U
off N medical cloth faced
cocorings as anandditional
luntary public healthheasure.
This isoluntary.
I D D't think I will B doing
it..
>> Covid has shakekeour faith in
E current medical sysysm.
>> The pandemic markeded turning
popot for them.
>> We were inin nevadaat that
time.
The kids were being oars S wear
masks -- forced toear masks.
I started lookingngnto if there
isisny science behind thatat
>> Some migrated T T Florida,
drawn by the sunny weathth and
the ststes loser covid
restrictions.
It was in sharp cocorast to the
pandemic tension amongngheir
extendnd family.
>>>> We have nototost any
reretionships over it.
But T have definitely had S se
tension.n.
>> The relatioiohips were
strong.
My younger brother worksksor a
big phphma company.
Heheing side completely nuts.
[Laughter]
He is my only younger broroer.
We havavspirited discussions..
He has not changed M M thinking.
And I have not changege as.
>>>> Itoon became diffffult to
separate politics frfr the
medicici.
Accocoing to this Dr. From Johns
Hopkins.
He has worked withthhe state of
maryrynd at public health
recommendationon
>> The P pdemic was a match T tt
lit thatatn fire.
It brought T tether people who
did not likeasks, people who
were upset aboututarticular
actions early the E ndemic.
>>>> That hahadeadly consequenens.
Accordinin to the Baylor collele
of medicinin
theyeyesearched the human costt
of the resisisnce to masks and
vaccines.
>> The big differentiaiain
deaths was very much S STEs
where E ople widely accepted
vaccines and states where peopop
did not widely Y cept them.
My estimate is 200 thousand
Americans neeeeessly pererhed
becaususthey refused covid
vaccineses a aer vaccines were
widely available..
>> A all S Swed that 91% of
mocratic voters had received
least one dose of the
vaccine.
Compared with 66% of rereblican
voters.
Democrats were far more likely
to get the latatt booster.
Multiple studies showewemore
publicans wrong hold that
resisied public health meaeares
and V vcinations fared worst T
terms of mortality rates.
>> Thehehave decided we E Ed too
get rid of F ese vaccines before
they expire.
>> Whyhyo we neeee an
expepemental mandatory vaccici
for a disease which youou have a
99.997%?
?
>>>>>>Hance of survivivi no
forced covid vaccicis for adults
or children.
>> He pointntto sharpened
rhetoric in the S smer of 2021
shortly before the V vcines were
proved for younger C cldren as
aaurning point.
>> If thth vaccici is affected,
there are no pepele for those
who receive the vacccce to wear
masks farmbobophysical contact.
Maybe it does not work and we're
are certainly Y T telling that.
>> There was annntire ecosystem
of elected O oicials on N E far
righgh together with fox newewand
other newswsutlets.
It was a predatory, organized,
and deliberateteisinformation
campaign that cocoinced
amererans that the vaccines S D
not workrkr were not safe.
They believevein and they pay
for it with theirrives.
>> A lot of people ask questionsns
about these E W covid vaccines.
>> Just three montnt ago, Ron
Desantis andndis surgeon generer
recommended D ainst the booster.
Theiei guiuince contradicic CDC
recommmmdations.
Bubuit did not go far enough for
some.
He is a former marine,
busineneman, and from supportete
he supported the peoeoe clinic.
He is against any covid
vaccinations..
His staff I leading the charge
and D at they call the medidil
freedom movememt, skeptical of
the E dical establishment anan
their recocoendations on
covid-19 prerention and
eatment.
They a ao promote nontraditionon
health care, including IV
therapy and druru like
ivermectct, which is not
proved to treat covid.d.
All the research that T S gone
intotohe vaccines, you stillll
believe E is harmful?
>> Absolututy harmful.
I D D't believe theiriresearch
atatll.
>>'S skeptitism goes be on
covid.
Inin the S se buildinghat houses
E clinic, HEET up a
political opererion.
Whatate calls a guarded thee boat
wawa room.
He says he willllelp monitor
election fraud in 24..
>> It will be a trtrning program
for law enforcement.
And precinct workersrso identify
whwh a law I being broken.
>> Down the hall, a protest --
podcdct studio from michaell
YNN.
He served as trump's national
security adviser before E CING
criminin charges.
He was then pardoned.
While thehe werer no federal
mandates reqeqring vaccination,,
he felt statatmandates and
unofofcial manantes B employers
or doctors officeseshreaten
pepele's freedom T make their
own medical decisions.
Like other patieies we met here,e,
they said D ey felt a huge sense
of relief when they Y UND the
clinic and T T alternative it
offers to governmeme messaging.
>> Wee did not feeeelike they had
done enoughesting in order toto
merit our fafah in it.
>>>> Noneef the claims beingade
Y it is effective.
U do not transmit.
You do not die.
It felt manipulative.
>> They rejectt public healthh
guidance fororhemselves and
their yoyog children.
>> We did not gegethe vaccine
shshs for our kids or for
ourselves.
We had covid.
Few days of coughing.
Like a flu.
At was it.
>> Their pediaiaician at the
clinic shares their douous about
ththvaccine.
>>>> I suppopoed tradititial
childhoooovaccines my entire
career.
As time went on, I W W crunching
mbers like anybody.
It became clear T T me fromomhe
data we E D from the govovnment
thatat thihi covid infection really
was not a threat to our nations
chchdren in terms of fatalalies.
>> Just under 1900 childrerehave
diededrom covid in the.s. The
ndemic began.
For this vaccine,, she saidd her
greatest worry lieiein what she
calls deadly side effects,
includinininflammation of the
heart musclee Orr myoyorditis.
The C cter says it is a very
rare occurrence.
Cases occurring after
vaccinationnave genererly been
less severerthan myocarditisis
caused by a a ral covid
fiction.
The CDC adds S at it and the fdada
llontinue to monitor andnd
evaluate repepts of myocarditis.
E says whenhe raised these
ncerns, she was firedrom her
jojoin Washington statetehere
she prpriously practiced.
>>He medicalchool that
termrmated my plummets of T T
message T tt if you dare
question anyththg related to
covidd, if you dararcolor outside
the lines O what is alloweded,,
with the main N rrative is, you
will be punisheded
thth is a dangerous plala for us
to be right now in americaith
this I ia that we cannot
question anythinin
thth O O own physicianan cannot
quqution what they are seseng
right ininront of their eyes.
>> Are thehe things that the
governmentntnd public health
officials could've done
differentltlthat would've
changed the outctce?
>> One of ththkey things that
can help people come together is
transparencycy
about whatats being considerere
anddn open discussion of T T
pros andndons.
Often times public-heaeah
officials and elected officials
justst announce things.
Today, here's what we're goingng
to do.
Stead, say this is whahawe are
thininng.
Could do this or thaha
people respond the by
appreciating the buying thth
governmentnts I in ---ind that
govevement isn't.
There is oftft no pererct
answer.
Onee misstst was not D dng more
proposing and listenininbefore
actiti.
>> He says this initial lack of
transparency and C cflicting
advice may have contntbuted to
thth skepticism.
In a recent moveveoward greater
transparencycy, and open
difference abuse H H arisen over
what age O oerwise healthy
individuals need the latest
shot.
Theedc recommending it foror
evevyone six months of age and
up.
Sevevel European countries, thth
who, and a prominene U.S.
Pedidirician say it is not
cessary for young peopop.
For his part, he worrieseshat
our exexrience withovid and
the O ooing questioning and
threatening off S sence will
thwart the U.S. Responsnsto the
nextxtealth emergency.
>> I do N N see things getting
better anytimemeoon.
The evidence for that is if you
look at the percenenge of
amererans whohoook the booster
lala septemberer when it was made
available, only about 20% off
eligible amemecans to.
-- Took it.
In terms of this new annual
administration, I tooooit with
ababt six other peoeoe.
I am concerned we will start the
next pandemic wiwi two strikes..
It will be much tougher now to
convince a aricans to take
vaccines because O the damage
done byy thesese vexing campaigngn
>>ne more potential divive in
an already dividededation.
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