Well, look, we can't make anybody do it, but, um, we should do it. And the responsible thing to do, based on all the best health care advice we've gotten, is clearly and unambiguously to wear a mask and practice social differences. And I would hope everyone would do that, regardless of registration on the Corona virus is not involved in American politics. This is a pandemic that's affected us all. And the responsible thing to do is to take your take responsibility for your own behavior. And I think the advice is very clear. And we need to do this for a while until the vaccine gets here. Based on what little confidence in Dr Faherty, Uh, total, Based on what you're hearing, what is your expectation is far, we will see a vaccine. Lawrence dished on what you're hearing. What's your expectation as to when we'll the country will have a vaccine. You know your act, asking me to predict something. Look, that most optimistic reports I've heard or later this year. But who knows? All I can tell you is that the effort here is enormous. The large pharmaceutical companies are advancing the money themselves. Some of the smaller ones work with a federal agency called Barta, where they jointly financed. And there's a crash effort going on on all fronts to develop hopefully more than one dioxane. And then that's just the beginning yet to produce the doses. Imagine the number of doses we're gonna need here, my friend. An enormous number just for us and in the rest of the world. I would be surprised if one or more vaccines are produced by you know, the pharmaceutical industry in this country gets a lot of grief. Uh, well, to be saluting them for the effort they're making here to get to this vaccine as rapidly as possible. I'm glad this industries in America and, um, they've done some fabulous things to extend our lives. And this. I'll be surprised if one or more vaccines are produced by these pharmaceutical companies, most of him most of their operations in the United States. Yep, when it comes to the vaccines, do you think there will be American to be American to fear that with rushing a vaccine will be hard to have a safe vaccine? What would it take to have your faith in a vaccine that you would take. I don't know how to answer that. I'm gonna, you know, like everybody else in America had all the vaccinations that healthcare world recommended over the course of my life. On if we have one or more vaccines that are being recommended, Sure, I actually intend to take it on. I don't know where we'd be without the development of vaccines. I know. For some people that's become controversial. To me, it's a no brainer. I'm willing to take the advice people who spent a lifetime giving us the best health advice possible on we'll see.
Mitch McConnell: 'I would encourage all Republican men' to get vaccinated
Updated: 5:30 PM CDT Mar 29, 2021
Related video above from 2020: Mitch McConnell on mask usage, COVID-19 vaccineSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday encouraged "all Republican men" to get the COVID-19 vaccine, as new polls indicate many in the group are skeptical of getting the shot."I can say as a Republican man, as soon as it was my turn, I took the vaccine. I would encourage all Republican men to do that," said McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, on Monday, when asked what kind of messaging he can push as the GOP leader to help encourage people, specifically Republican men, that the vaccine is safe and they should get it.McConnell added that there is "no good argument not to get the vaccination. I would encourage all men regardless of party affiliation to get the vaccination," at a news conference in Hazard, Kentucky, outside a health care clinic for an event focusing on the state's vaccination efforts.In a CNN poll released earlier this month, 92% of Democrats said they had gotten a dose of the vaccine or planned to get one, while just 50% of Republicans said the same. That same poll found that 46% of Republicans said that they won't try to get a vaccine. Similarly, a PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll conducted this month, 49% of Republican men in the U.S. say they don't plan to get vaccinated for COVID-19.Vaccine hesitancy has also been found on Capitol Hill. Through a House-wide survey and interviews earlier this month, CNN found that 189 Democrats out of 219 in the House have been vaccinated. In that same survey, CNN also confirmed that 53 House Republicans out of 211 have been vaccinated. Thirteen Republicans told CNN they have not been vaccinated even as many said they planned to be. CNN did not receive a response from 145 House Republicans.Louisiana Rep.-elect Julia Letlow on Sunday urged Republicans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, citing her own tragic experience losing her husband to complications of COVID-19."Look at my family. Use my story," the Louisiana Republican said on CBS' "Face the Nation" when asked her message to Republicans."You know, I experienced a tragedy in my immediate family, and COVID can touch every family out there," Letlow continued. "And so there is a vaccine that has life-saving capabilities, I want to encourage everyone to trust it and get the vaccine."Letlow won a special election in Louisiana earlier this month to take the seat that her late husband Luke, who had won last year's election, was never able to hold. He was 41 when he died in December.
Related video above from 2020: Mitch McConnell on mask usage, COVID-19 vaccine
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday encouraged "all Republican men" to get the COVID-19 vaccine, as new polls indicate many in the group are skeptical of getting the shot.
"I can say as a Republican man, as soon as it was my turn, I took the vaccine. I would encourage all Republican men to do that," said McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, on Monday, when asked what kind of messaging he can push as the GOP leader to help encourage people, specifically Republican men, that the vaccine is safe and they should get it.
McConnell added that there is "no good argument not to get the vaccination. I would encourage all men regardless of party affiliation to get the vaccination," at a news conference in Hazard, Kentucky, outside a health care clinic for an event focusing on the state's vaccination efforts.
In a , 92% of Democrats said they had gotten a dose of the vaccine or planned to get one, while just 50% of Republicans said the same. That same poll of Republicans said that they won't try to get a vaccine. Similarly, a conducted this month, 49% of Republican men in the U.S. say they don't plan to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Vaccine hesitancy has also been found on Capitol Hill. , CNN found that 189 Democrats out of 219 in the House have been vaccinated. In that same survey, CNN also confirmed that 53 House Republicans out of 211 have been vaccinated. Thirteen Republicans told CNN they have not been vaccinated even as many said they planned to be. CNN did not receive a response from 145 House Republicans.
Louisiana Rep.-elect Julia Letlow on Sunday urged Republicans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, citing her own tragic experience losing her husband to complications of COVID-19.
"Look at my family. Use my story," the Louisiana Republican said on CBS' "Face the Nation" when asked her message to Republicans.
"You know, I experienced a tragedy in my immediate family, and COVID can touch every family out there," Letlow continued. "And so there is a vaccine that has life-saving capabilities, I want to encourage everyone to trust it and get the vaccine."
Letlow won a special election in Louisiana earlier this month to take the seat that her late husband Luke, who had won last year's election, was never able to hold. He was 41 when he died in December.