There were always going to be people that were going to get their COVID-19 vaccines without missing a beat. There were also always going to be anti-vaxxers. There’s another group, though, which isn’t against vaccines, but just might need more information.
There’s nothing wrong with that, unless these folks do their research on Facebook, or listen to Rep. Jim Jordan, says former Biden coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt, this week’s bonus episode guest on The New Abnormal.
“Don’t listen to him. Don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to [Ohio Gov. Mike] DeWine, listen to a doctor,” says Andy to whoever those people may be.
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Instead, “what we have to do is make sure that those questions get answered by reliable, trustworthy people” and “not some guy on Facebook either,” he adds.
So what’s Biden’s plan now? He is starting to send vaccines to countries that need help overseas but we’re not out of the woods in the U.S. just yet.
“He does not consider the job done,” says Andy. “We still have parts of the country, mostly in the south and also in rural communities where there’s a low percentage of the country, that aren’t vaccinated,” and that’s bad because it means the virus can linger longer than anyone wants it too.
But there is a way to stop a pandemic from happening again, and there’s more to it than making sure former president Donald Trump never steps foot in the Oval Office again.
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