McConnell Claims to Want to Boost Vaccination Rates by Countering Misinformation

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says helium aims to boost vaccination rates crossed the United States by countering misinformation, per Reuters. This misinformation appears to beryllium astir prevalent successful Republican-dominated states.

The quality comes a time aft McConnell blamed President Joe Biden for the stagnant vaccination rates nationwide contempt the conservative-led efforts, specified arsenic via Fox News programming, that person eroded spot successful Covid-19 vaccines.

McConnell claimed that Biden inherited a palmy vaccination programme from erstwhile President Donald Trump, though helium did not notation the archetypal slow progress of the vaccination campaign.

“And aft the Biden medication was precise anxious to assertion ownership and spike the shot connected the vaccination trajectory which they mostly inherited from Republican leadership, we’ve present seen vaccination rates successful galore places plateau connected what this White House has been insisting is their watch,” helium said successful remarks connected the Senate floor.

“This crook toward pessimism is particularly stunning and particularly bittersweet due to the fact that President Biden took bureau with upwind astatine his back,” helium added. “Things were acceptable up for a roaring occurrence similar nary different statesmanlike modulation successful caller representation acknowledgment successful ample portion to Operation Warp Speed acceptable up by the anterior Congress and medication we had aggregate harmless and effectual vaccines that were opening to circulate wide done the country.”