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Have you found yourself confused

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over the past year. While face

0:06

masks are currently required in some parts

0:09

of China to prevent the spread of the deadly

0:11

coronavirus here in the US, the

0:13

Centers for Disease Control is not yet

0:15

recommending them for the public. Tonight,

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the CDC says double masking offers

0:20

more protection against COVID nineteen. Donald

0:23

Trump tells us should that we've taken I'm not

0:25

taking it. I want to encourage everyone

0:27

to get the vaccine. It is safe.

0:30

Has it sometimes been difficult to

0:33

figure out the truth? I had

0:35

really been struggling with it, trying to figure

0:37

out if I trust the vaccine once

0:39

I sawed that video, if I didn't know it was

0:41

an R and A what else don't I know about

0:44

it? You know? But it was also that in

0:47

the back of my head, why saw

0:49

fast. I'm not against vaccines at

0:51

all. I think there's a place for certain ones, but

0:53

I also think some of them are

0:55

not things that would give my children. We're

0:59

living in uncertain times, but

1:02

we do know one thing for sure. The

1:04

only way we're going to get out of this pandemic

1:07

is mass vaccination. The

1:10

problem is right now, many

1:13

Americans just don't trust vaccines.

1:16

What if I take it and something happens to me down

1:19

the road. I'm torn between both, you

1:21

know, I really am. I'm torn between

1:24

both. This

1:27

skepticism didn't actually start

1:30

with the rollout of vaccines, or in

1:32

March, or even

1:35

with the rise of Donald Trump. This

1:37

moment has been brewing for

1:40

a very long time.

1:43

I'm Kristin V. Brown, the host

1:45

of Doubt, a new series from

1:47

Bloomberg Prognosis. In

1:49

this podcast will trace the rise

1:51

of vaccine skepticism in America

1:54

to show how we got here and

1:56

where we're going. There

1:58

are forces that have been working behind the scenes

2:01

to erode our trust vaccines.

2:04

Today, their message has gone

2:06

mainstream and it threatens

2:09

our ability to fight the coronavirus.

2:12

We need everybody to release their fear

2:14

from their brains, get rid of their masks, goes

2:16

so hug people and absolutely

2:19

say no. Doubt

2:21

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