off. the delta variant kind of scares me. that s why you got it? yeah. reporter: it is 6:00. one hour into vaccination. curiosity level is high, vaccination level is not. you met four people that have gotten the vaccine. those are the only four that came in the first hour. the health department is sponsoring other vaccine events at truck stops, coffee shops, car dealerships. the department s director of disease surveillance says her department must be creative. july 4th, we had an explosion of cases, a doubling or tripling of number of cases every seven days. it is accelerating greatest in age groups of 18 to 49. reporter: back at the food truck festival, jack is 22, says no vaccine. i don t need it. i am not going to get it. everyone out here that s dying or will be hospitalized is somebody that hasn t been
vaccinated. 360 s gary tuchman spent the entire day at a clinic at one of the largest counties in alabama. reporter: it s 5:00 p.m. and a pop up covid vaccine clinic has just opened at mobile, alabama s annual bay bites food truck festival. there s the choice of all three vaccines, but there are no takers. only the workers for the mobile county health department. but ten minutes later the ceo of the soul heaven cafe leaves her food truck and becomes the first visitor choosing the pfizer vaccine. you are done. that s pretty easy, right? it was real easy. reporter: mobile county is one of 400,000 people and has one of the lowest vaccination rates of any county in america at 37%. in the state at 34%. the county health department is striving for more frequent
as the leader of the state, don t you think it is your responsibility to try to help get the situation under control? i ve done all i know how to do. i can encourage you to do something, i can t make you take care of yourself. cnn s gary tuckman went to alabama to see why people are so resistant. reporter: it is 5:00 p.m. a pop up covid vaccine clinic just opened at mobile, alabama s annual bay bites food truck festival. there s a choice of all three vaccines, but there are no takers. only the workers for the mobile county health department. but ten minutes later. the ceo of the soul heaven cafe leaves her food truck, becomes the first visitor, choosing the pfizer vaccine. you re done. it was pretty easy, right? real easy. reporter: mobile county has
get a better understanding about why the resistance to vaccines is so high. reporter: it s 5:00 p.m. and a pop-up covid vaccine clinic has just opened at mobile, alabama s annual bay bites food truck festival. there is a choice of all three vaccines but there are no takers. only the workers for the mobile county health department. but ten minutes later, the ceo of the soul heaven cafe leaves her food truck and becomes the first visitor, choosing the pfizer vaccine. lily, you are done. that s pretty easy, right? it was, real easy. reporter: mobile county has more than 400,000 people. and one of the lowest vaccination rates of any large county in america, at 37%. in a state that is the lowest in the country, at 34%, the county-health department is striving for more frequent outreach to get people vaccines. and that s why its employees are here. ten minutes later, another woman gets a vaccine.
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