If you missed Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, his Main Story -- which he got to almost immediately, rather than doing his short news recaps first -- was about the COVID-19 vaccine. The point was to look at all the reasons so many people have either put off getting vaccinated or refuse to, and give responses to all of them. It was a very good, information, and often funny report, though I'm not sure it did as intended. On the good side, he noted that simply showing his show to such people won't convince them, that statistics show people are most-convinced by people they know -- so he offered his information as something to pass along. On the other side, I'm not sure if his explanations to many of the issues would convince anyone. They were certainly all valid, just not as simple to grasp as is likely needed. In fact, his best explanation about why to get vaccinated came in a wonderful rant at a fictitious "Mike from Baltimore." (Also, I think they could have been more blunt in addressing concerns of all those people who think the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease by pointing out that almost 600,000 Americans alone have died from COVID-19, while mere single-digits have died as perhaps a complication of other conditions combined with just one of the vaccines -- which was, in fact, taken off the market to study, and then re-released with full understanding of the very rare issue.) But it was still a very good, entertaining report.
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