Old President Trump
Donald Trump: Briahna Joy Gray pushes moderates to criticize Sanders voters for the composition of the Supreme Court. Trump backs Hershel Walker for Georgia Senate seat What does Texas abortion law mean for Roe v. he said he “probably won’t” get a third shot of the COVID-19 vaccine if several health regulators agree to authorize it for use among most Americans.
Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday: “I feel in good shape from that point of view, I probably won’t.”
“I’ll look at things later,” he added, “I’m not against it, but it’s probably not for me.”
To date, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for certain immunocompromised individuals, but the FDA and an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have not yet given official authorization. forward for making third shots at the Americans despite Biden administration’s plans to launch boosters later this month.
Both Trump and the former first lady Melania Trump
Melania TrumpHouse’s panel discusses Trump’s fight against executive privileges on Jan. 6 from research The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – The U.S. is preparing a vaccine enhancement plan. received its COVID-19 shots in January. During a rally in Alabama in August, Trump recommended that people be vaccinated, which he received briefly booed.
“You know what? I totally believe in your freedoms. I do. You have to do what you have to do. But I recommend you get the shots. I did. It’s good. Get the shots,” Trump said during the rally. of Cullman, Alabama, which had declared a state of emergency related to COVID-19 just days earlier.
“It’s not good. That’s fine, “Trump said after receiving boos.
“You have your freedoms, but I happen to have the vaccine. If it doesn’t work, you’ll be the first to know, okay? I’ll call, Alabama. I’ll say, “Hey, you know what?” But it is working. But you have your freedoms. You have to keep it, you have to keep it, “he continued.
The issue of vaccines has fallen largely on partisan lines. About 95% of Democrats surveyed indicated in an NPR-PBS Newshour-Marist poll published Friday that they have already been vaccinated or will be vaccinated. Only 62 percent of Republicans surveyed said the same.
The poll also found that 37 percent of Republicans will not get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar wrote in a post in The New York Times in early August that COVID-19 vaccines “work incredibly well” and said that “any claim that vaccines are unsafe or ineffective or that the corners were cut are not true “.
He said he wished Trump’s vaccination had been televised so he could have encouraged more Americans to inoculate themselves as well.
“I’m glad former President Trump was vaccinated, but it would have been even better if he had done so on national television so that his fans could see how much confidence he has in what is certainly one of his greatest achievements,” he wrote. Azar.