Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Health

But if I were to pick out one thing

that we as a nation are not doing optimally,

it's the extraordinary situation where you have a highly effective vaccine

that is very safe, and you have 50 million people

in the country who refuse to get vaccinated,

many of which are motivated purely by differences in political ideology,

which is really unacceptable when you're in the middle of a deadly outbreak.

If there ever was a time when

you wanted the nation to focus on fighting the common enemy,

and the common enemy is the virus,

not ourselves, it is really extraordinary

that we are having interference with public health principles

for reasons that have nothing to do with public health.