Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush, and Bill Clinton as well as Joe Biden, US President-elect said that they were willing to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus on camera to help and promote public confidence over the safety of new Covid-19 vaccines.
Barack Obama in an interview with SiriusXM radio said that he would be inoculated if White House Covid-19 task force members and top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci signs off on a Covid-19 vaccine. “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,” said Obama.
George W Bush’s Chief of Staff, Freddy Ford told CNN the former president also wanted to help in promoting vaccination.”First, the vaccines need to be deemed safe and administered to the priority populations,” Ford said.
Angel Urena, Bill Clinton’s press secretary told CNN the former president also wants to get vaccinated in public on television.
Later in the day, Biden told CNN that he too, would be willing to get vaccinated in public after the approval vaccines and he specifically said he would rely on Fauci to say that it is safe.