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Calls Grow For Trump To Urge Hesitant Supporters To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Trump supporters are the least likely to say they will seek a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available to them. Of the hesitancy among Republicans, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, "I just don't get it."
The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey found that nearly half of former President Donald Trump's supporters said they would not get a COVID-19 vaccine if one becomes available to them.

Republicans and supporters of Donald Trump are the least likely to say they will seek a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available to them.

That has led to calls for the former president to speak out more forcefully to encourage his supporters to get vaccinated.

"I think it's very important for former President Trump, as well as the [former] vice president [Mike Pence], to actively encourage all of their followers to get the vaccine," Adm. Brett Giroir, who was the coronavirus testing czar in the Trump administration, said Monday afternoon on CNN.

"We all have to get together

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