soledad: brian castrucci, always nice to have you back. ve been studying vaccine hesitancy, and i'm wondering where you are seeing that the most across the united states right now. dr. castrucci: we're seeing it mostly among republicans and conservatives, and that's why while we have 50% of the population vaccinated, in some states, it's still less than 40%. soledad: there are still places, though, that struggle with access to the vaccines, isn't that right? dr. castrucci: it is. and we need to really change our access plan. local health departments have been doing a wonderful job hustling. we need vaccine hustlers. the southern nevada health district just did the most las vegas thing and had a pop-up vaccination clinic at a strip club. so, you have to go and meet people where they are. if you're at the beach, do a pop-up clinic at the beach. we have to do everything we can to makgetting the vaccine the easiest thing for people to do. soledad: in new york, we have opened our vaccinations to 12-year-olds. what are you hearing from parents wh

joining me now, brian castrucci, thank you. appreciate you joining. >> don, thanks for having me. >> i want to get your reaction from what is happening in sturgis. are you concerned, people coming from all over the country, will this be a superspreader event? >> i'm very concerned. the slogan is we're spreading our wings, but i'm concerned they're going to be spreading more than just their wings. this could be a serious turn for your country. when you look at the data about the delta variant, they should be very concerned. the governor has said there's a risk with everything we do in life, and she's right. but that doesn't mean that we court risk. we don't use that to justify smoking, binge drinking, or running into water where there are sharks, saying life has risks. >> it's interesting. as our reporter was pointing out, with the big events, you have to show your vaccine card, in many cases you have to mask, and so on, and so forth. but some of them, i don't really know the exact percentage, they said, i'm not getting a vaccin

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