Surgeon general on Matthew McConaughey’s opposition to vaccine mandates for kids: ‘Covid is not harmless in our children’
“Many children have died. Sadly, lots of of youngsters — hundreds — have been hospitalized, and as a dad of a kid who has been hospitalized a number of years in the past for an additional sickness, I might by no means want upon any father or mother they’ve a baby that results in the hospital,” Murthy informed CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.”
“And the vaccines have proven in these trials for kids 5 by 11 they’re extra at 90% efficient in defending our children from symptomatic an infection, and they’re remarkably secure as effectively.”
CNN has reached out to a consultant for McConaughey.
“Once we started the vaccination effort for adults, really just a few months earlier than we had the vaccine obtainable, in case you checked out polls they confirmed a few third or so of adults had been able to exit and get the vaccine immediately. What modified, although, is then the FDA and CDC weighed in. Individuals noticed their family and friends get vaccinated,” Murthy mentioned Tuesday night.
“Individuals additionally acknowledged they had been getting protected, they usually bought the prospect to speak to their medical doctors concerning the vaccine. All of that’s going to start out occurring now with vaccines for kids, as effectively.”
He continued, “So I am going, effectively, that is a motive to not, however then I am going, no, that is precisely why it’s best to, as a result of politics wants redefinition, however I am measuring, you already know, what’s my class? What’s my embassy?”
