Rand Paul says he won’t get vaccinated because he’s already had COVID-19 – By April Siese (CBS News) / May 23 2021
Rand Paul revealed he would not be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The senator from Kentucky said he sees no point in getting vaccinated because he already had COVID-19.
“Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated because I’ve already had the disease and I have natural immunity,” Paul said in an interview Sunday on WABC’s radio show “The Cats Roundtable.”
Paul, an ophthalmologist, was the first-known senator to be diagnosed with COVID-19 when he contracted the virus in March 2020.
The senator’s stance goes against the Centers for Disease Control’s recommendations that those who have already had COVID-19 nonetheless get vaccinated. According to the CDC, experts are uncertain how long natural immunity lasts. There is also a rare risk that those who’ve already had COVID-19 could become infected again.
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