Donald Trump recently rebuked Ron DeSantis as a “big Lockdown Governor,” who championed what the former president is now implying to be a dangerous and untested COVID vaccine.
the Hill on Thursday that he “wouldn’t vaccinate my children for COVID,” falsely claiming that the “risks of the vaccine are greater than the risks of the disease.”While the families of the million-plus Americans who have beensince its onset three years ago might beg to differ with Paul’s assessment, the senator is right that the danger of the pandemic has decreased dramatically. But that’s because of the very vaccines he’s trying to undermine.
The danger of this kind of thing has already been made clear: It doomed the country’s response to the initial wave of the pandemic, and seems to be contributing to the among Republicans. But the peril could escalate if anti-vax sentiment gets further baked into the official party platform, as my colleagueearlier this week. “The worst-case scenario is if it becomes a litmus test in the [presidential] primary,”, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health who has served on numerous US government vaccine advisory committees, told Eban.
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