While Americans line up to get their shots against COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy — and an even greater disregard for masks and distancing — threaten to stand in the way of herd immunity. A new poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist highlights the challenge ahead, with 49% of Republican men saying they will refuse the vaccine. Dr. Vanessa Kerry, director of the Global Public Policy and Social Change program at Harvard Medical School, a physician at Mass General Hospital and CEO of the non-profit Seed Global Health, joined Jim Braude to discuss the impact vaccine hesitancy has on the virus and our ability to resume normal activities.
