“It’s grossly misfortunate and a huge human cost to have made vaccination political.”
Sen. Mitt Romney urged Americans to get vaccinated to protect themselves from COVID-19 on Tuesday, calling the rising politicization of vaccines within his party “moronic.”
“It’s grossly misfortunate and a huge human cost to have made vaccination political,” Romney told HuffPost when asked about attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas over the weekend“After all, President Trump and his supporters take credit for developing the vaccine, why the heck won’t they take advantage of taking the vaccine they received plaudits for having developed?” the senator added, referring to Operation Warp Speed, the federal vaccine development program...
There’s an increasing political divide in the U.S. that is translating to who is getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Some of the least vaccinated states and communities, for example, are the most Republican,But some GOP lawmakers and conservative media personalities are echoing anti-vaccine disinformation.
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