What did Alabama Governor Kay Ivey say about Covid-19 Vaccines?
NEARLY 10,000 new cases of Covid-19 have spiked in Alabama in July 20201.
Alabama has the lowest vaccination rate in the United States.
What did Alabama Governor Kay Ivey say about Covid-19 Vaccines?
On July 22, 2021, reporters probed Governor Kay Ivey at what could be done to encourage Alabama state residents to get vaccinated.
“I don’t know. You tell me,” the governor told a reporter in Birmingham.
“Folks [are] supposed to have common sense.”
Following the statistics, the state's governor had message for Alabama residents.
“It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”
“Almost 100 percent of the new hospitalizations are with unvaccinated folks. And the deaths are certainly occurring with the unvaccinated folks,” she told reporters at an event for a tech company.
“These folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain.”
Less than 34 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, reported the
Nearly 500,000 people remain partially vaccinated.
More than 565,000 coronavirus cases and about 11,400 deaths have been reported in Alabama since the start of the pandemic.
What has Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said about the Covid-19 vaccine?
Greene has a history of pushing false or misleading information about coronavirus, face coverings, lockdown measures and the pandemic as a whole.
On July 19, the conservative congresswoman was hit with a 12-hour suspension from Twitter after posting a tweet falsely claiming
In a separate tweet, Greene said that "defeating obesity" would protect people against coronavirus complications and death.
Greene has previously called on Americans to reject having the Covid-19 vaccine and used the phrase "just say no," a reference to former President Ronald Reagan's war on drugs.
In a July 11 tweet, Greene said: "Thousands of people are reporting very serious life-changing vaccine side effects from taking covid vaccines.
The tweet was soon labeled as "misleading" by , which then advised people to see what health officials had to say about vaccines.
Greene also previously said door-to-door vaccination efforts should focus more on obesity rather than getting people jabbed.
During the July 20 news conference, she said: "If we're going to talk about going door-to-door to ask people if they've had the vaccine and offer it, then we should definitely talk to people about how to reduce obesity to get rid of...the number-one risk factor that can lead to hospitalization or death."
The representative went as far as to compare mask-wearing to the Holocaust, saying .
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Despite doubling down on her position after making the comments, on July 12.
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"I'm truly sorry for offending people with remarks about the Holocaust," the Georgia representative said.
"There's no comparison, and there never ever will be."