3 hours agoBiden surprised by the opposition to vaccinate against the Coronavirus
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)President Joe Biden says he is surprised by the continuing opposition of some Americans to vaccinate against the Coronobrus, especially among the republics that opposed his election as president. “I honestly thought that after we had enough vaccines for everyone, the situation would start to calm down,” President Biden said of the ABC News channel [...]
“Sciently, I thought that after we had enough vaccines for everyone, the situation would start to calm down,” President Biden said on the ABC News channel on Tuesday. “and actually has calmed down quite”.
However, President Biden told ABCNews journalist George Stephanopoulos, “I cannot understand this kind of masculity in expressions I will not do the vaccine. I have the right to be American, I have my freedom not to do the vaccine.
Then why don't you be a patriot? Protecting other people”, President Beden said.
Joe Biden, who was vaccinated before his inauguration two months ago, said he showed the Americans by example that the vaccine is safe and was also personally extenuating “because now he can hug my grandchildren”, the president said.
“They come visit me, I can see them and I am able to stay with them”, the president said.
About 13% of American adults, more than 35 million Americans have been fully vaccinated. Former President Donald Trump and his wife Melanie were both vaccinated before he left office.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump told Fox News Channel, “I recommend the vaccine, and I would recommend it to many people who would not, and many of them voted for me, sincerely”.
However, he added, “We have our freedoms to respect, and I agree with that approach as well. ”
Dr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Beden and the country's highest infectious disease expert, told the “Meet the Press” of the NBC channel last Sunday that anyone's reluctance to vaccinate was “disturbing” and “obly meaningless”.
The last three national polls show that the Republicans who voted for Mr. Trump had more reservations to vaccinate than the Democrats who supported Mr. Biden.
A recent NPR agency survey / PBS / Marist shows 47% of voters of former President Trump and 41% of Republicans say they will not take the vaccine.
A CBS News network survey recently showed that 33% of Republicans will not be vaccinated when vaccines are available for them, while only 10% of Democrats share the same opinion. A University poll at Monmouth found that 59% of Republicans were either in doubt of vaccinating or said they would never be vaccinated. Only 23% of the Democrats shared the same opinion.
Dr. Fauci called the political divide of vaccines surprising.
“has absolutely no meaning,” he said. We need to separate political beliefs from reasonable, logical, public health “. / VOA/
