Despite the worsening spread of the Delta Variant, about a third of Californians still aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19, and nationally, the number is a little bit higher than that. People have a variety of reasons why they will not get the shot, ranging from political beliefs to religious ones, to a lack of access, to fear based on disinformation they’ve read on the Internet. 

For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Jeff Bell and Margie Shafer, as well as KCBS Radio political reporter and host Doug Sovern, spoke with Jonas Kaplan, a cognitive neuroscientist and associate professor of research at the USC Dornsife Brain and Creativity Institute.