we re trying to illustrate how extreme these people are. you know, robert f. kennedy jr. was the head liner for the rally yesterday. and he s supposed to be talking about the vaccine and how terrible it is. but he launched into a riff about equating anti-vaxers to jews fleeing the nazis. he s talking about satellites tracking the world s population using 5g technology. he s talking about global elites cutting off the food supply to the population. and what we do is we highlight that. we don t we don t run from it. the traditional way of dealing with this stuff has been to ignore it. don t give it oxygen. don t give it a platform. we take the opposite approach. we want the whole country to see how crazy these people really are. we re not highlighting their antivaccine message. we re highlighting all the other crazy stuff they re saying and doing to discredit them. it takes me back to the days
another study looked at booster rates across the world taking population into account. we re near the bottom of the list. take a look. countries with higher booster rates have less hospitalization and death. many of them are getting back to whatever normal means these days. the question we want to answer tonight is why aren t we? joining me now. new york times health and science reporter. and medical contributor. the cofounder and medical director of good stock consulting and associate professor and critical care medicine at university of virginia. recent analysis shows one of the nations best funded, antivaccine organizations saw a 60% jump in revenue. in 2020. what role have groups like that played in keeping the vaccination numbers low? a really important low. we know vaccine rates are marketedly different in republican leaning states and democratic leaning states.
call with russian president vladimir putin ended mostly in a stalemate. of course, some of the same conservative patriots calling the president weak over the situation in ukraine are the same ones calling for the economic mayhem on our northern border to spread into our cities as committee and police and antivaccine protesters clash this weekend over the on going blockades of major border crossings and federal law enforcement is worried that the unrest could threaten america s wiggest sporting event tonight in los angeles. all of that on politics nation tonight, and later, as the president s infrastructure overall starts to break ground, i ll talk to the former new england s mayor mitchell andrew, now president biden s infrastructure coordinator, about what it means for black america from detroit michigan to
and wrote a book a few years back, vaccines did not cause rachel s autism. that s made me public enemy number one with anti-vaccine groups. federal action in the last 20 years, since june 1, we have had 200,000 americans who refused to get vaccinated and lost their lives. anti-science aggression is now probably one of the leading killers of young adults in the united states. anti-science aggression, disinformation is now one of the leading killings of americans, and i have been pleading with administrations, this goes back to the bush administration, the obama administration, the trump administration, an and this oned the answer has always been, peter, we re not talking about it now because it will give it oxygen, and even now the biden administration refuses to do anything about it. they basically pointed fingers