Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if it will help promote public confidence.
Obama, in an interview with SiriusXM radio, said he would be
inoculated if top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci signs off on a
Covid-19 vaccine.
“If Anthony Fauci tells me this vaccine is safe, and can
vaccinate, you know, immunize you from getting Covid, absolutely, I’m going to
take it,” Obama said.
“I promise you that when it’s been made for people who are
less at risk, I will be taking it,” he said.
“I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so
that people know that I trust this science, and what I don’t trust is getting
Covid,” Obama said.
Freddy Ford, Bush’s chief of staff, told CNN the former
president also wanted to help promote vaccination.
“First, the vaccines need to be deemed safe and administered
to the priority populations,” Ford told CNN.
“Then, President Bush will get in line for his, and will
gladly do so on camera.”
Angel Urena, Clinton’s press secretary, told CNN the former
president would also be willing to take a vaccine in public on television
Vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna-NIH are
expected to be approved by US authorities shortly and a top science official
said Wednesday the United States hopes to have immunized 100 million people by
the end of February.
AFP
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