The Biden administration is taking COVID anti-vaxxers head-on.
Jeff Zients,who contended falsely in a tweet that government “agents” were going door-to-door to “compel vaccination.”Biden-allied groups like the Democratic National Committee will also “engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.
On Sunday, Fauci responded to the idea perpetuated by Fox News that the administration’s door-to-door effort to convince people to get vaccinated would somehow involve a federal agent in a white lab coat jamming a needle into people’s arms, saying, “The big misinterpretation that Fox News or whomever else is saying is that they are essentially envisioning a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you’ve got to do something that you don’t want to do.
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