“These shots need to get in everybody’s arms as rapidly as possible or we´re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for — that we went through last year,” McConnell (R-Ky.) said at a news conference Tuesday, adding, “This is not complicated.”
McConnell has been one of the most outspoken members of his party in urging vaccinations to stop the virus spread, speaking often in his home state of Kentucky of the need for people to get the shot.
Reviewing statements from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox claiming that conservative pundits are killing people with their speech, McConnell stated that he encourages everybody to “ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice.”
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As cases skyrocket, he noted that nearly all the new virus hospitalizations in the U.S. are among people who have not been vaccinated.
McConnell’s request to find trusted and verified information about the virus and vaccines mirrors White House's struggles this past week to counter false news that they say is circulating on social media and cable news.
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McConnell took to Twitter to help his pro-vaccination remarks, tweeting a portion of them with the words “Get Vaccinated!” at the top of the tweet.
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A new Axios Ipsos poll marks the problems that government officials have had in turning a significant portion of the American people to take the jab: Of the unvaccinated respondents to that survey, fully half said they are “not at all likely” to take it.
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The minority leader’s remarks come at a time when the Delta variant has pointed to a surge in COVID cases across the country, though without a corresponding increase in hospitalizations and deaths.u
As a survivor of childhood polio, McConnell often draws on his own experience of having endured that disease and he has spoken publicly of the relief that eventually came with the development of vaccines.
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“It never occurred to me that there would be difficulty getting Americans to get the shot,” he said.
Across the country, some businesses and schools are thinking of making vaccination mandatory, but thus far the White House has refused at the thought of a federal mandate to take one of the three conditionally approved vaccines.
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