know how politicized everything is and the hesitation that will come with. and there are also people who say this is making things worse. eugene, we are all looking for ways to describe what is happening, and i understand at the same time that sometimes that has implications that not being a public health professional, we might not appreciate. your thoughts? i think of what we don t want to do. it is, in some ways, the greatest burden. the american cost is by people who are not vaccinated. you don t want to stigmatize those, right, and sort of make the disease a stigmatization of people who are not in the scene. by changing the rhetoric, right, and we ve seen that difference. we saw this big increase with
those, right, and sort of make the disease a stigmatization of people who are not in the scene. by changing the rhetoric, right, and we ve seen that difference. we saw this big increase with right-leaning politicians coming out in support of vaccines, and whether it s that or whether it s because people are really seeing this increased burden of people who are unvaccinated, the daily vaccination rates have gone up. we ve been at half a million for a while. yesterday we were almost up to 800,000, so some of that is working. take it a step further, right? private businesses, employers, have to consider whether or not they should put on these vaccine requirements before they come back to work, because it s going to keep their workplaces safe, and i think that might be more effective than a federal mandate. how does the biden white house combat the growing threat?
addicts, and those with hemophilia and we re still dealing with that, and hiv is still highly stigmatized so it s not just about giving people treatment or giving people medicine to prevent hiv, it is about dealing with the marginalization and the stigmatization of lgbtq people and transpeople and people who use drugs and we need responses for these social crises as well as medical crises. i think we ve coming a long way in the last few decades for sure, particularly since the death of my uncle jonathan griffin, who i m thinking of today. he died of aids some years ago. and i remember the feeling at his memorial and how loving and somber and slightly uncomfortable it was just to even kind of have conversations about that kind of thing. it feels like we ve come farther, civically in terms of talking about it, and governmentally, with president biden requires $670 million from congress which is up about a quarter of a billion from previous requests, how hopeful are you we are going to
and i just i don t you know, i don t get it. i think you re 100% right, and i think it really showed how dirty this process has gotten. i m sorry. he has a daughter as well. i m sorry. biden has a daughter as well. but he s worried about you know, he had two sons. he has one now, and he s dealt with his problems. and that s not the issue. the issue is not what happened with burisma. it s what you re using as a tactic here. yeah. we say we re trying to get rid of the stigma. then you weaponize the guy s frailty and illness for political effect. with opioid, heroin, and if you ever had a family member who has been addicted and you wait, are they going to come home tonight, you don t know what they re doing. and we re trying to move past this stigmatization of this. that s why people don t get help. i got to go. i hear you. i love you. happy friday. happy friday. happy weekend. i ll see you guys for skinner tomorrow. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. this h