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Three former presidents say they would be willing to take a coronavirus vaccine publicly, once it becomes available, to encourage all Americans to get vaccinated against a disease that has already killed more than 273,000 people across the United States.
Former President Barack Obama said during an episode of SiriusXM The Joe Madison Show Aired this week in the US, “I promise you, when it’s made for people with less risk, I’ll take it.”
“I may end up showing it on television or having it filmed, just so people know that I trust this science,” Obama added.
However, it is possible that Obama will undergo immunization for the foreseeable future. The Food and Drug Administration will consider authorizing the emergency use of two vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna later this month, but current estimates project that no more than 20 million doses of each vaccine will be available by the end of this year. Each product also requires two doses, which means injections will be rationed in the early stages.
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Healthcare workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an influential government advisory panel, said earlier this week. That encompasses about 24 million people out of a US population of about 330 million.
Still, former President Bill Clinton “definitely” would be willing to receive a vaccine, as soon as “it is available to him, based on priorities determined by public health officials,” spokesman Ángel Ureña said.
“And it will do so in a public setting if it helps to urge all Americans to do the same,” Ureña said in a statement Thursday (local time).
Ureña declined to answer a question about whether the Clinton team has contacted advisers to other former presidents about the possibility of hosting a joint immunization public session whenever possible.
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Three former US presidents, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W Bush, say they would be willing to take a coronavirus vaccine publicly, once it is available.
Former President George W. Bush’s former chief of staff, Freddy Ford, told CNN that the former president recently asked him to meet with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, and the Dr. “Know that when the time is right, you want to do what you can to help encourage your fellow citizens to get vaccinated.”
“First, vaccines must be considered safe and administered to priority populations,” Ford told the network. “Then President Bush will line up to receive his, and he will gladly do so in front of the camera.”
Ford did not respond to a message seeking comment Thursday.
The overlapping sentiments of three former presidents come as the United States recorded more than 3,100 deaths from Covid-19 in a single day, erasing the record set last spring. The number of Americans hospitalized with the virus has passed 100,000 for the first time, and new cases have started to exceed 200,000 a day, according to figures released Thursday.
President Donald Trump has said he will be criticized no matter what he does when he gets the vaccine, whether it’s the first or the last.
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US President Donald Trump has said they will criticize you no matter what you do when you get the vaccine, whether it’s the first or the last.
During the presidential campaign, Trump’s re-election team tried to criticize challenger Joe Biden for being against vaccines. But the former vice president said months ago that he would take “a vaccine tomorrow” if one was available.
Biden, now president-elect, has not commented on the possibility of receiving a vaccine publicly to inspire confidence. His transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden warned Wednesday that the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the next two months could kill an additional 250,000 people, though he did not offer details to support his assessment, which is much grimmer than the projections from the Center for Disease Control. and Prevention.
“We are likely to lose another 250,000 people killed between now and January,” Biden said.
Speaking to the general public, he added: “You cannot travel during this vacation, as much as you want.”
