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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell blames election-related 'confusion' for Republican vaccine reluctance
The Senates top Republican said Monday that confusion related to the 2020 presidential election may explain why Republican men are more hesitant to get themselves vaccinated against COVID-19.
Speaking at a health-care event in his home state of Kentucky, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, I think there was some confusion because of the election year, last year, created for Republican men.
A poll conducted in early March by NPR/PBS News and Marist University found Republican men and Trump 2020 voters as being the least interested in getting vaccinated, with 49% and 47%, respectively, saying they did not plan on getting the shot when it becomes available to them.
Some experts have worried that the rate of vaccinations nationally could slow, even as eligibility standards are loosened, because of hesitancy by some sectors of the population. President Joe Biden announced Monday that 90% of the adult population in the U.S. will be eligible for a shot by April 19.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mcconnell-blames-election-related-confusion-for-republican-vaccine-reluctance-11617049096?siteid=yhoof2
Basically Republicans are more paranoid.
Lemonwurst
(283 posts)For four-plus years they were told to believe the opposite of what science was saying, and now they cant admit that science is always right, and doesnt care what they believe.
For them, evolving is a humiliation.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Raven123
(4,792 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)Think I'll go with stupid and easily misled by demogogues.
YMMV