Amid growing calls for mandatory vaccines, critics note press-run anti-vax rhetoric, Dems

Media critics have unearthed “anti-vaccine” rhetoric from prominent Democrats and liberal experts amid calls for more Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine and even make it mandatory.

In recent weeks, liberal networks have offered guests and analysts platforms to demand mandatory vaccines.

“It’s time to impose vaccination warrants and passports,” CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer said last month. His comments were followed by the CNN medical contributor Dr. Léana Wen, who suggested that life “must be difficult to keep people unvaccinated.”

Conservative commentator Drew Holden last year provided a thread of Democrats and members of the media who he said undermined confidence in the vaccine while President Donald Trump was still in the White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris was perhaps the most notable person to question the COVID-19 vaccines developed as part of Operation Warp Speed, saying last year that she does not “trust” the president during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.

“I will say I wouldn’t trust Donald Trump… I won’t take his word for it,” Harris told Bash last year when asked if she would get shot.

His comments have been shared and even applauded by left-wing media like Daily Kos.

Harris will later take that message to the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate, noting that she would not take the vaccine if recommended by Trump. Then-vice president Mike Pence accused her of trying to “undermine public confidence” in the vaccine. His remarks resurfaced after Harris publicly took the vaccine in December.

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Biden himself was publicly skeptical of the vaccine last year. As The New York Times wrote in a telling headline, “Biden, Seizing Concerns Over Rushed Vaccine, Warns Trump Cannot Be Trusted. “

This title had company. “Trump’s vaccines cannot be trusted,” said a neutral foreign policy column. “Will anyone trust serial liar Donald Trump’s coronavirus vaccine?” A similar title from Vanity Fair sounded.

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Media experts have joined in questioning vaccines produced under Trump’s watch.

“Frankly, the fact that Pfizer was not part of ‘Operation Warp Speed’ and received no funding from the Trump administration makes me feel better about their vaccine,” the MSNBC host tweeted. Joy Reid last November. “I speak only for myself, I wouldn’t approach anything that Trump or his politicized FDA had anything to do with.”

But over the weekend, while admitting that she was initially hesitant about the vaccine because of Trump, Reid has now told her supporters to “get vaxxed and survive this creepy thing.”

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Journalist Glenn Greenwald was among analysts who shared Holden’s thread, accusing Democrats of questioning the vaccine as a way to hurt Trump’s chances of re-election.

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Despite initial skepticism from lawmakers and experts, Operation Warp Speed ​​has been touted as a bipartisan “miracle” for helping produce vaccines in record time during the COVID-19 pandemic. The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr Francis Collins, called it a “breathtaking success”, while White House medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci said he would historically be “very success”. CNN’s Jake Tapper called the initiative “remarkable achievement, while interviewing people do not get vaccinated.