Voices of the Unvaccinated

<p>Don, a 38-year-old single father from Pittsburgh, doesn’t want to be lumped into the “crazy anti-vax crowd.”</p><p>Jeannie, a middle school teacher, has never vaccinated her teenage son and says she won’t start now.</p><p>Lyndsey, from Florida, regrets having not had her late grandmother vaccinated against Covid-19.</p><p>With the Delta variant of the coronavirus raging, we hear from some Americans who have decided not to get vaccinated. </p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jan-hoffman?smid=pc-thedaily">Jan Hoffman</a>, a reporter covering behavioral health and health law for The New York Time; and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/sophie-kasakove?smid=pc-thedaily">Sophie Kasakove</a>, a reporting fellow for The Times’s National Desk. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Who are<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/us/virus-unvaccinated-americans.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> the unvaccinated in America</a>? There’s no single answer.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>