frustration. there have been others. you saw steve scalise this week getting vaccinated. that s good. the florida governor ron desantis telling people get vaccinated. but, melanie, is this real? i mean, take a listen to joe biden. he characterized this as basically a come to jesus moment for republicans. what we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and, by the way, you notice a lot of our very conservative friends have finally had an altar call. they ve seen the lord, whether it s on fox news or whether it s the most conservative commentators. so, yes, in some corners of the republican party there has been a shift. house doctors caucus held a conference encouraging people to get vaccinated but at the same
lawyers, you know, they all feel this sense of facebook still pushing for growth to be their north star. you don t think they feel the pressure and some responsibility, considering what s happened over the past you said 2016. that was the year trump was elected. and, you know, misinformation started, really, to skyrocket. you don t think that they ve made a difference? or they have, you know, sort of an altar call, so to speak? you know, i think our book shows that they ve instituted some really important changes. they ll tell you, themselves, that they hired over 30,000 people to work in security. they now know a lot more about misinformation, and how to look for it. but again, you know, i think one thing our book kind of chronicles that, until they change basic things about their algorithms, the problems they have are going to persist. and here, i m really thinking of the news of the last week of vaccine misinformation. and how that persists on the platform. their executives ca
former president trump. he criticized him pretty often. he often spoke to the broader message, trying to remind folks in the crowd of the progress his administration has made thus far on the economy. he mentioned the bipartisan framework on infrastructure, the child tax credit, and the pandemic. really as his administration deliberates on how to move forward, how to respond, what actions they need to put in place again as these cases rise across the country and also as they deal with misinformation. take a listen. our conservative friends had an altar call. they ve seen the lord. whether it s on fox news or whether it s the most con conservative commentators or governors. versus all the covid deaths and hospitalizations are today among the unvaccinated people. i know this has gotten a bit
and yesterday as he campaigned in virginia the president trying to argue that this should not be politics, that the vaccines will save lives. you notice a lot of our very conservative friends have finally had an altar call. they have seen the lord. whether it is on fox news or whether it is the most conservative commentators or governors. virtually all the covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations are today among the unvaccinated people. and i know there s gotten politicized but i hope it s starting to change. it is not about red states or blue states or that guy hollering. it is about life and death. reporter: that is similar to the messaging from the white house and officials that this is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated. there is growing concern within this white house about those areas of the country with low
he s also the author of preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response. mr. slavitt, i mean, that is the thing that is so frustrating about this, is that this was preventable and that this delta variant, you know, the toll it s taking and is going to take could have been prevented had more people been vaccinated. we just heard about the change in some republicans when it comes to their public messaging about the vaccine, and that s certainly to be applauded. last night in our town hall president biden said that some in right-wing media had a, quote, altar call when it comes to vaccine. should republican leadership be doing more within their own ranks to help bring people around? you know, i think when you play politics with the vaccine you re playing with fire and you re playing with you re own constituents lives. so it would make a hell of a lot of sense to do what sean hannity did. and look, they can be peo