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‘Close to 85 to 95%’ need to take vaccine to shut down virus, CDC director says

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The Center for Control Disease and Prevention’s director said the new vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel to this deadly pandemic but only if people take it. Director Dr. Robert Redfield believes the world needs a vaccination rate of more than 85 percent if we want to achieve herd immunity, which his personal opinion and not new guidance from the agency. As cases continue to rise, Redfield said the biggest challenge to preventing COVID-19 is now vaccine hesitancy. “The ability of us to put this pandemic behind us now is no longer a scientific problem it’s going to be strict whether the American public embraces this vaccine,” said Redfield. During a zoom conversation with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine Monday, Dr. Redfield said the first vaccines developed to combat the virus are safe.

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