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Unhelpful and wrong : Bay Area health experts denounce Joe Rogan s remarks on vaccinations
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Podcast host Joe Rogan said on April 23, 2021 that he does not believe healthy young people should get vaccinated against coronavirus, remarks that frustrated Bay Area health experts, one of whom called them “unhelpful and wrong.”Coutesy Spotify
Defying public health guidance, Joe Rogan, the host of Spotify’s most popular podcast, said last week he does not believe healthy young people should get vaccinated against coronavirus.
His remarks likely heard by millions of people didn’t sit well with Bay Area health experts.
Rogan, whose podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” reportedly averages more than 100 million downloads per month, said on his Apr. 23 episode that he would caution someone in their 20s against getting vaccinated.
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“Vaccines can save your own life, but they can also save your grandmother’s life, your co-worker’s life, the grocery store clerk, or the delivery person helping you and your neighbors get through the crisis,” Biden said last week.
He described the vaccination campaign as “a powerful demonstration of unity and resolve” and “a reminder of what we can accomplish when we pull together as one people to a common goal.”
Yet despite his rhetoric, partisan splits remain. Republican-led states, particularly in the South, generally have lower vaccination rates. California has administered 72,885 shots per 100,000 people, versus 51,093 in Mississippi and 50,404 in Alabama, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WASHINGTON â Since President Joe Biden took office, heâs talked about two goals more than any others â ending the COVID-19 pandemic to ignite a jobs boom, and uniting a politically divided country.
As he approaches his 100th day as president on Thursday, itâs clearer than ever that those two goals are interwoven, and success with the first may not be possible without the second. As much progress as Biden has overseen in the nationâs public health campaign, the mission is far from accomplished.
So politicized was the pandemic response Biden inherited that polls consistently show Republicans are more resistant to getting vaccinated, and public health leaders say the daily number of shots delivered could begin to slow down, even as supplies have become more readily available. What began as a logistical success â the United States has vaccinated a greater percentage of its population than almost any other nation â risks becoming bogged down just as Bi
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