Fareed's Take: Why America's anti-vax problem is unique (CNN)

[ItsjustMe]

Fareed gives his take on the role Republican politicians and conservative media figures have played in spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. New York City eyes French 'health pass' vaccination policy

Like France, we need vaccine passports

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De Blasio compared New York to France, which announced this month that so-called "health passes" would be required for events or places that include 50 or more people, starting July 21, and for restaurants, cafes and stores starting in August. Patrons also can show a proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the previous 48 hours to gain entry.

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"We have to look at making it more appealing to get vaccinated, because there are only things you can do when you're vaccinated," de Blasio said during an interview with WNYC Friday.

So far in France, the newly announced health passes appear to have spurred an uptick in both vaccinations and anti-vaccine demonstrations. One day after President Emmanuel Macron's televised July 12 address announcing the system, more than 1 million French people made vaccine appointments, with the majority of those being made by people younger than 35, according to The Associated Press.

Health workers in France, where at least 111,778 people have died from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, will be required to get vaccinated by Sept. 15, according to Macron.

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As of Thursday, 58% of French residents had received at least one dose, and 44% were fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data. By comparison, 56% of Americans had gotten at least one shot, and 49% were fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Kudos to Fareed! He articulated the problems we're currently facing as well as anyone I've heard!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Many people are turning down Covid vaccines because they are angry that President Donald Trump lost

It is going to be hard to convince TFG supporters to be vaccinated. They are all idiots

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Many people here and elsewhere in the Southeast are turning down Covid-19 vaccines because they are angry that President Donald Trump lost the election and sick of Democrats in Washington thinking they know what’s best. State and local public health officials have struggled to combat that deep-rooted obstinance. But they don’t want more on-the-ground help from the White House, fearful it would prolong the current surge — even as the Biden administration has begun approaching southern states with offers to send federal “surge teams” on door-knocking campaigns.

The pushback from both state officials and people who refuse vaccination underscores the extent to which the federal government may never be able to convince rural, conservative populations in parts of the South to get the shot. And it raises questions about how the Biden administration will shape its response to Covid-19 over the next several months as more schools and businesses reopen and Delta spreads.

“To say that politics doesn’t play a part would be wrong,” Melton said. “I think the national figures get people talking about the vaccine and that can sometimes take the wrong fork in the road and go the wrong way.”

Local public health officials and physicians in this part of the country are convinced that they are doing everything they can to save lives — pulling 15-hour days to set up pop-up mobile vaccine units, monitor patients on respirators, and administer rounds of therapeutics. But they can only do so much. They will not go to people’s homes to try and twist their arms, they say, and they do not want federal officials to do so either.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Dying for "the cause??" What possible sense does that make??

As has been said here many times, this insane "policy" is killing off its own supporters - and taking some of us (mostly young people now) with them. How is this worth anything??

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6. What trump Hath Wrought. DEATH

Inconvenience a Qpublican today. MANDATORY VACCINATIONS

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7. Vaccinations are the only way to save lives, but it is now too late for 600,000+ thanks to TFG

And his Republican supporters.