US: Fauci Concerned About Trump Supporters Refusing to Be Vaccinated

The hope that the former president Donald Trump will urge its supporters to be vaccinated for Covid-19, said Dr. Anthony Fauci. He also stressed that the pandemic-related restrictions should not be lifted prematurely, stressing to CNN that the rise in cases could be avoided if Americans continued to be vaccinated “without abruptly lifting public health measures.”

A poll last week (by PBS NewsHour / NPR / Marist) found that about half of American men who identify as Republicans have no plans to get vaccinated against the new coronavirus.

When asked if Trump should address his supporters directly, given this percentage, Fauci told NBC’s Meet the Press: “I hope he does, because the numbers you said are very worrying.”

“It is absurd how such a large percentage of a certain group of people do not want to be vaccinated for political reasons,” he added.

All other former presidents (Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter) are set to appear in two vaccine commercials with their wives, but without Trump.

Getting the vaccine “does not require thinking,” Fauci said, citing a number of diseases that have been eradicated through vaccinations, such as smallpox. “What is the problem now? “It’s a vaccine that will save the lives of millions of people.”

Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and has been an adviser to Democratic President Joe Biden.

At the beginning of the pandemic, Trump appeared in the news with Fauci, but later turned against him. In October, after being infected by Covid-19 and hospitalized for three days, he sharply criticized him, saying “Fauci is a disaster” and “people are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots”.

“Gradually we will be able to remove them (the restrictions). “And if things go as we plan, as the president said, entering the summer, on the weekend of July 4, we will really have a significant degree of regularity,” he added.

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