Kira Ganga Kieffer

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder · 3691 - Bernie & AOC Rally For El-Sayed; The Roots Of Vaccine Hesitancy w/ Kira Ganga Kieffer · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

And now they're kind of pushing into like medical freedom and religious liberty as well.

So they see a coalition, I think, or at least like the

the makings of one and then surely it pans out and it becomes a coalition, it becomes part of conservative Christian identity by the time that COVID hits, right around COVID hitting.

I don't think that that would have happened.

I don't think that a third of Americans would have said no to a COVID vaccine 10 years earlier.

I think that all of those things had to have happened prior to set that up.

Well, lots of things going on there.

I think that the, I really do find areas to critique for sure.

You said anemic, I, you know, in terms of the public health system, because I think that people in public health had seen vaccine hesitancy, which I was talking about, you know, earlier in the interview, just a few minutes ago, as having started much earlier than the 2010s.

But when it gets to the 2010s, they address it as,

you know, a failure of facts, so to speak, and that they need to just like address vaccine hesitancy with more facts and also, you know, changing the laws.

And those things really, those two methods really actually triggered

vaccine hesitancy or anti-vaccinationism amongst a lot more Americans than otherwise would have because it seemed to be derogatory to say that lots of people didn't understand the science and therefore if they just would listen and go to school, they would know that vaccines were good.

And also,

was kind of threatening or at least posed to be taking away the right to get an exemption or just the right to say no to the government on something.

And without realizing it, I think public health made vaccine hesitancy much, much worse, is what I would say.

That's how I feel about it.

That's how I read it historically.

You know, of course, we don't know how things would have been had vaccine hesitancy been understood differently in the prior decades.

But we do know that among, say, African-American populations who also have higher levels of vaccine hesitancy than white populations based off of different factors, medical racism, that when

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