have come in for vaccines, two-thirds have asked for the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine. >> gary tuchmante it. thank you. >>> perspective from infectious disease dr. gander, we saw gary's piece. are you surprised how many people chose to get the johnson & johnson vaccine? >> i was surprised because there is so much in the media about the effect icacy of johnson andn joh joh son. this is not an inferior vaccine and if anything, we have in a sense more data on the johnson & johnson vaccine because it was tested in south africa in latin america where the variants had emerged later in the pandemic and we know that the vaccine remains effective in those settings. >> i do think that's one of the interesting things that's often overlooked about the johnson & johnson vaccine because the efficacy when it came to, it is, correct me, maybe i won't even say it. tell me what the efficacy is compared to the others on mild cases, but what is often overlooked at the fact this has been tested against the south african vvariant, the brazil variant and deemedf effective against hospitalization and death, w

>> gary tuchman, appreciate you being there. rspective from infectious disease specialist. former covid adviser to president biden's transition team. dr. gander, we saw gary's piece. were you surprised by how many people chose to get the johnson & johnson vaccine? >> honestly, i was a little bit surprised just because there has been so much in the media about the efficacy of the johnson & johnson vaccine as compared to the others. and just to remind everyone, in terms of preventing hospitalization and death, all of the vaccines were 100% effective in clinical trials. so this is not an inferior vaccine. and if anything, we have in a sense more data on the johnson & johnson vaccine because it was tested in south africa, in latin america where the variants had emerged later in the pandemic, and we know that the vaccine remains effective in those settings. >> i do think that's one of the interesting things that's often overlooked about the johnson & johnson vaccine because the efficacy when it came to -- it is, correct me, maybe i wo

>> my wife. >> gary tuchman, cnn, boyce city, oklahoma. >> great reporting by gary tuchman there. become so partisan? both parties have been guilty of politicizing the pandemic at times. while there is some research that suggests that democrats tended to overestimate the risks of covid, on the right, we saw a much more centralized effort to politicize the science and data in the opposite direction. it came from the top with donald trump. because when you're president, your words matter, so it mattered that then president trump repeatedly downplayed the virus at the beginning of the pandemic. and it mattered when he politicized the simplest tool to combat it, masks. at the end of his term, trump had a chance to break this cycle. he could have gotten the vaccine on camera, proving to his supporters it was safe. instead, he got the vaccine in secret and the weeks didn't find out until weeks later when it was reported in "the new york times." for the record, trump eventually, meekly urged his supporters to get the vaccine. >> i would recommend it. i would recommend it to a lot of peop

>> my wife. >> reporter: gary tuchman, boyce city, oklahoma. >>> bad news for march madness.all tournament. after an outbreak of coronavirus hit the virginia commonwealth tournament team, the first-round game was declared a no contest. andy scholes is in indianapolis with more. >> reporter: ncaa set up a controlled environment with strict protocols in indianapolis, hoping to keep covid from disrupting the tournament. saturday night, virginia commonwealth university was forced to withdraw from the tournament after multiple members of the team contracted the virus. >> it was devastating, heartbreaking. a lot of -- no dry eyes. this is what you dream of as a college player and coach. to get it taken away like this is just -- it's a heartbreaking moment in their young lives. >> reporter: vcu set to take on oregon in a 7-10 matchup but the game called off hours before tip-off, the ncaa saying this decision was made in consultation with the marion county public health department. as a result, oregon will advance to the next round of the tournament. ncaa and the committee regret tha

>> my wife. >> gary tuchman, cnn, boise city, oklahoma. >> his wife.ning me now to talk more about the town's resistance and its effect on keeping new cases, new case numbers down, dr. williams. i love that man's answer, it was his wife who talked him into it but i wonder if you were at all surprised by what we saw in that piece, that many oklahomans, at least in that town, feel this way. >> well, brianna, thanks for having me on. the answer is i'm not that surprised. people are very afraid about any kind of change and any kind of vaccine. but the positive is, we actually are making tremendous progress in oklahoma, we've administered $1.5 million -- or 1.5 million injections, almost a million people have gotten both of their injections thanks to our state health department and the undersecretary of health keith reed and the whole governor's team. the thing we're encountering, though, is there's just resistance and i think you'd find there's probably resistance in a lot of small communities across the united states and there's resistance in even in a pr

>> my wife. >> gary tuchman, boise city, oklahoma. >> we will have more news, but first a can of paintped one woman with polar disorder to find balance and help others. here this week's "human factor." >> when i am painting my pieces, i honestly experience complete freedom. i started to experience the symptoms of postpartum depression and anxiety shortly after the birth of my second son. i remember his cries being such a trigger for me. i couldn't understand why suddenly my heart was racing. why suddenly, i felt detached. i was first diagnosed with bipolar it was a mood stabilizer. my therapist suggested that i build or create something constructive with my hands. i just remember putting the paint on my hands and on the canvas and moving it around. i felt completely different than i had before. really transformative moment. since i started painting in 2012 i have probably done over 1,000 pieces. i established sarah arts collective to support and amplify the work of black and brown women and nonbinary artists who work in abstraction. it's my career but really it's still therapy. i give

cnn's gary tuchman reports. >> reporter: economic life has long been challenging in the mountainous townsvid outbreak has made things much worse. >> it is tough who of for my kids, my wife, my whole family in general, a lot of my family is out of work. >> reporter: he is a cole miner, like many people in this area lost his job. >> i love the mines. good money, good money. good living. >> reporter: how hard is it right now? >> it is a struggle right now. >> reporter: here in williamsson, west virginia, the covid relief bill is a huge relief for so many people. garland townsend is a restaurant dish worker. >> i am excited about it. any time you can help areas as depressed as we are and give people $1,400 it is going to help a little bit. >> reporter: help you? >> yes, sir, helped me, me and my wife store there is great awareness among people in mingo county that their senior u.s. senator joe manchin could have brought down this will if he wanted to, that he is, in effect, a king maker. and many of the people we talked to here like that. charles mcguire says he almost always votes republican

>> yeah. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, phoenix. >> too cute. >>> coming up next, very disturbing newet another assault on an asian american woman. it is difficult to watch. this time it took place in new york city. there is a clip there. we'll have more details when we come back. as carla wonders if she can retire sooner, she'll revisit her plan with fidelity. and with a scenario that makes it a possibility, she'll enjoy her dream right now. that's the planning effect, from fidelity. so jeff, you need all those screens streaming over your xfinity xfi...am for your meeting? uhh yes. and your lucky jersey? oh, yeah. lauren, a cooler? it's hot. it's march. and jay, what's with all your screens? just checking in with my team... of colleagues. so you're all streaming on every device in the house, what?!! that was a foul. it's march... ...and you're definitely not watching basketball. no, no. i'm definitely not watching basketball. right... ( horn blaring ) . >>> president biden's administration today announced new actions to combat the rise in what it calls, quote, anti-asian violence, xe

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cnn's gary tuchman went to a pharmacy where customers can choose which vaccine they get. >> reporter:-owned business in a small predominantly black city in delwood, missouri, north of st. louis. >> i waited a long time for this. >> okay. >> reporter: the pharmacist also the owner of the business -- >> okay, you're all set. >> reporter: -- just got her first supply of covid vaccine for her community. but she didn't just get one kind of vaccine, she got two, moderna and the newly approved johnson & johnson. >> it's been great. it's a blessing to be in this position. >> reporter: particularly because rebecca mawae knows there's a reticence among groups about getting a covid vaccine. >> i was hesitant about getting it. >> really? >> reporter: she has the unique opportunity of giving her customers the choice. >> i have the moderna and johnson & johnson, which one would you want? >> which is -- >> that's the one, the shot, the johnson & johnson, you want to get that? >> just one? >> just one shot and you're done. >> johnson. >> yes, that's the best option. and it's equally effective. so we

we sent gary tuchman to the west virginia. tied with the highest unemployment rate in the country.5% of voters voting for the former president in the 2020 election. only one other county in the state gave him a higher percentage of the vote. this is clearly republican voters. so we wanted to see how the relief bill is being received there. here's what gary found. >> reporter: economic life has long been challenging in the mountainous towns of west virginia coal country. the covid outbreak has made things much worse. >> it's tough for my kids. for my wife. my whole family in general. i mean, i got a lot of my family out of work. >> reporter: kevin johnson is a coal miner, but like many other people in the area, lost his job. >> i love the mines. it's good money. really good money. good living. >> how hard is it right now? >> it's a struggle right now. >> reporter: hire in williamson, west virginia, the covid relief bill is a huge relief for so many people. garland thompson is a restaurant dishwasher. >> i'm excited about it. any time you can help areas, depressed as mingo county and

gary tuchman spoke with a pier of siblings. >> reporter: this little boy and girl are about to make historycovid vaccines. feeb is the very first child to get the covid shot and one of the first in the u.s. and canada. the day began about 90 minutes earlier, arlo and phoebe walking in. a baby brother on the old too young and one too old. it begins with children at least six years old. parents ashton and stephen take a seat. they have to sign. prevaccine measures again. blood pressure and ear check. and then a requiring covid test. >> pull your mask down and look up to the ceiling. thank you. perfect. >> reporter: the children are brave throughout. even with the blood test. it's almost time for the covid vaccine and we take some time to talk to the proud parents. >> was it a hard decision to allow your children to be in this trial? >> no, it was not a hard decision at all for me. we believe in the science of vaccines and we were excited at the opportunity to be a part of it. >> reporter: among the first group of participants, a lesser dose is given than the adults receive. >> for the first 7

cnn's gary tuchman traveled to a deep red part of the country to find out why this is. >> are you goingst the government and i don't trust biden. >> just don't want to. >> reporter: why don't you, if you don't mind me asking? >> because when i take the flu shot, i usually get the flu. >> reporter: so you think you'll get covid by taking the covid vaccine? >> probably. >> i'm just not. i'm not going to take it. >> reporter: what if president trump came out and was very robust and said, take the vaccine, i took it even though i didn't tell anybody about it, it was done secretly, but you should take it? he said it a little bit but he wasn't robust. if he was robust about it, would you take it? >> no. >> trump's a liberal new yorker. why would we listen to him either. >> reporter: did you vote for him? >> he was the best option. >> wow. >> frank luntz is republican strategist and pollster. thank you. we'll get to your op-ed in a second, but you just heard those incredibly candid sound bites from these guys. why do you think there's so much resistance on the right? >> it comes from the polit

however, pfizer and moderna began testing their vaccines in children under the age of 12. "360" gary tuchmanof those trials. he met a brother and sister taking part in the moderna trial. they couldn't be happier or braver. >> reporter: this little boy and girl are about to make history. 6-year-old arlo swenson and his 9-year-old sister phoebe are getting covid vaccines. >> quick. >> all done. >> that was it. >> reporter: phoebe becoming the first child to get the shot in the moderna children's covid-19 trial at this phoenix clinical research facility, and one of the first in the u.s. and canada. the day began about 90 minutes earlier. arlo and phoebe walking into the facility with their parents. a big brother on the left who is too old for this trial and a baby brother who is too young. the trial is for infants 6 months old through and until children 11 years old but the initial stage begins with children at least 6 years old. parents ashton and stephon take a seat and sign consent forms >> i'm going to have you write your name. >> reporter: and children who are 7 or above also have to sign.

take look at what happened when cnn's gary tuchman visited an oklahoma town that overwhelmingly votedre you going to take a vaccine? >> no, sir. >> tell me why? >> i don't trust the government and i don't trusted bien. >> just don't want to. >> if you don't mind me ask, why? >> because when i take the flu shot i usually get the flu. so -- >> joining us now, david gar again, and april ryan. good the see both of you. david, gary just gave us a small snapshot there, but vaccine hesitancy is a real concern. what should the white house be doing to combat this? >> tin white house for the time being pushed really really hard with local leaders who are more credible. for example, churches, black churches, the pastors have enormous credible with their congregations. similarly, various clubs around, row terry club, clubs that people belong to. overall, i do think that in time we have to accept the fact that there are some rules that are good for the country but we may not like them very much. bikers didn't want to wear helmets early on. there are a variety of things we ask of people because it

here's what residents told gary tuchman about the vaccine. >> reporter: it's breakfast time in boiseestion. >> does anybody in this restaurant think it's a good idea to take the vaccine? >> no. >> raise your hand if you think it's a good idea. anyone here, it's a good idea? raise your hand to think if it's a good idea? not one person here thinks it's a good idea? complete quiet. >> reporter: boise city is the county seat sparsely populated where 92% of voters chose donald trump on election day. the highest percentage in the state, all 77 counties went for trump. . >> no, sir. >> reporter: tell me why. >> i don't trust the government. i don't trust biden. >> reporter: he and his wife neither plan to get the vaccine. >> when i take the flu shot, i usually get the flu, so there is no reason to take it. >> reporter: are you saying you will get covid by taking a covid? >> yes. >> reporter: why are you thinking that in the research doesn't slow that at all. >> that's just my choice. >> reporter: these women are sisters and they, too, are doubters. why are you doubtful? >> they just started