EFE.- The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, recommended this Tuesday to his followers that they get vaccinated against Covid-19, and especially its voters, the group that is showing the most resistance to receiving the doses.
“I recommend (getting vaccinated), and I recommend it to a lot of people who don’t want to get vaccinated, and a lot of those people voted for me to be honest,” he said. Trump in an interview with Fox News.
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Trump and his wife, the former first lady, Melania Trump, were vaccinated against Covid-19 before leaving power, although they did not make it public at the time.
The spokeswoman for the White House, Jen Psaki, urged precisely this Monday to Trump to “speak out about the safety and efficacy” of the vaccine noting that “all the other” former presidents have done so and said that the government of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, I would support that gesture.
In the interview with Fox News, Trump said that the Covid-19 vaccine “It’s good, it’s safe, and it’s something that works.”
“But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live with it and I support that too,” he said. Trump when referring to people who have decided not to get vaccinated.
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A recent survey of CBS News indicated that 34% of Republican voters do not intend to get vaccinated and that 24% are still thinking about it, while among Democrats only 10% do not want the vaccine and 20% are still undecided.
The governor of Georgia – the state that has vaccinated the fewest people in the country – Brian Kemp said last week that they are finding “difficulties” among the group of white Republicans when it comes to getting vaccinated.
In the United States, about 72.1 million people (21.7% of the population) have received at least one dose of the vaccines of Pfizer, Modern The Johnson&Johnson, of which 39 million (11.8%) are already fully inoculated.
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