said, but they re quite literally laughing in his face. look, watters was talking about ambush interviews, that was the context. it was the language he used, ambush, kill shot, dead, dead, dead, that i think fauci was responding to there. president biden commented on vaccine misinformation during his speech tuesday. taking a tough tone, oliver. i think this is an interesting notable moment. the president not only talking to americans who are unvaccinated and vaccinated, but also talking and addressing the people who are promoting vaccine lies. the unvaccinated are responsible for their own choices. those choices have been fueled by dangerous misinformation on cable tv and social media. these companies and personalities are making money, by pedaling lies and allowing misinformation that can kill their own customers and their own supporters. it is wrong.
ox host Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves on November 29 to falsely claim that the U.S. has “achieved universal vaccination” and that continued high rates of coronavirus deaths mean the COVID-19 vaccination campaign is “the greatest public policy failure of all time.”
97% of the people who are in the hospital now for covid are unvaccinated. so if there s anybody out there willing to listen, get vaccinated. but there are still a number of republican lawmakers who do not face any public rebuke from their peers for pushing vaccine lies. talk about going door to door to take vaccines to the people. they can then go door to door to take your guns or bibles. this is not true. but that was not enough reason for the north carolina congressman to correct his statement. jessica dean, cnn, washington. well, the statements encouraging vaccination by prominent republican politicians are clearly a start in the long run, can they have an impact? joining me now the co-director of vaccine development at texas children hospital and dean at college of medicine and author of preventing the next pandemic
did not mince words this week this is not complicated. 97% of the people who are in the hospital now for covid are unvangd. unvaccinated. so if there s anybody out there willing to listen, get vaccinated. but there are still a number of republican lawmakers who do not face any public rebuke from their peers for pushing vaccine lies. talk about going door to door to take vaccines to the people. they can then go door to door to take your guns or bibles. this is not true. but that was not enough reason for the north carolina congressman to correct his statement. jessica dean, cnn, washington. well, the statements encouraging vaccination by prominent republican politicians are clearly a start in the long run, can they have an impact? joining me now the co-director of vaccine development at texas children hospital and dean at
has consistently advocated for people to get vaccinated did not mince words this week. this is not complicated. 97% of the people who are in the hospital now for covid are unvaccinated. so if there s anybody out there willing to listen, get vaccinated. reporter: but there are still a number of republican lawmakers who do not face any public rebuke from their republican peers for pushing vaccine lies. now we re talking about going door to door to be able to take vaccines to the people. they can go door to door to take your guns and your bibles. reporter: this is not true. but that did not give the north carolina congressman a reason to correct his statement. now all of this is happening as the capitol attending physician here on the hill put out a letter to members and staff members saying that the delta variant has been detected here on the hill begging anybody who has not been vaccinated to get