Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services under Donald Trump, has penned an op-ed for the New York Times extolling the effectiveness of COVID vaccines. Referring to himself as “the architect of Operation Warp Speed,” Azar urges Americans to take their shot while wishing Trump had gotten vaccinated on TV. From the op-ed:
After leaving office, I watched with pride as vaccination rates rose through the early months of the year, and then with dismay as the daily number of vaccinations declined.
We could have done more to address vaccine hesitancy. We focused a great deal of our efforts at the start on the groups that we thought might be most hesitant.
But we did not predict the politicization of vaccines that has led so many Republicans to hold back. As of mid-July, 43 percent of Republicans said that they have not been vaccinated and definitely or probably wouldn’t be, versus 10 percent of Democrats, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
I’m glad former President Trump got vaccinated, but it would have been even better for him to have done so on national television so that his supporters could see how much trust and confidence he has in what is arguably one of his greatest accomplishments.
Azar resigned as Health Secretary six days after the violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol building. Read the full op-ed at the NY Times. https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1422628835833651204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1422628835833651204%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Fcollection%2Fcontent%2Fuser%2Ffd6bf860-11d9-45fb-87cf-d7d48c69ac3d%2Fcategory%2Fglobal.all
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