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GOP senators say their party’s vaccine hesitancy will go away

By Ariel Cohen and Thomas McKinless
Posted March 17, 2021 at 2:16pm

Republican senators are downplaying their party’s COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy problem. Almost half of Republican men and a third of Republican women say they won’t get vaccinated from COVID-19, according to recent polling from NPR/PBS NewsHour and Marist.

See the video as reporter Ariel Cohen breaks down Republican lawmakers’ responses to vaccine hesitancy within their party.

[ Also watch: How the pandemic changed health care, one year later ]

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