Some GOP leaders are scornful or silent about booster shots seen as key to fighting omicron – By Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum (The Washington Post) / January 4, 2022
As coronavirus cases surged in Florida last summer, Gov. Ron DeSantis urged people to get vaccinated.
“If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals . . .. over 95% of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all,” he said at a news conference. “These vaccines are saving lives.”
Last month the governor struck a different tone when asked on Fox News if he has received a vaccine booster shot – which health officials call one of the public’s most important tools against the omicron variant fueling a new wave of infections.
“So, I’ve done whatever I did,” said the GOP star considered a potential contender for the presidency in 2024. “The – the normal shot, and that at the end of the day is people’s individual decisions about what they want to do.”
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