Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said the White House and the President Joe BidenThe low vaccination rate in Louisiana is to be blamed on a “partisan statement.”
Cassidy joins Chris Wallace Fox News Sunday Discuss Biden’s $3 trillion infrastructure bill and vaccination rate in Estuary State.
Towards the end of the conversation, Wallace shifted the topic to COVID-19 vaccines and asked the senator why Louisiana State was so reluctant to get the vaccine. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the state’s current vaccination rate is 36%, ranking fifth in the country.CDC).
Cassidy pointed to the White House and said Democratic Party in Congress Because of Louisiana’s distrust of vaccines. He explained that going back and forth in partisan disputes would not work.
“When citizens don’t trust the government, when you send partisan comments about the next Jim Crow law from the White House, people will be surprised. [and] People like senators [Chuck] Schumer and the White House are not cooperating on a bipartisan bill,” Cassidy said. “‘Oh, here we will be partisan, but here you better believe us. ‘That won’t work. “
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The senator said that “it should not be the president’s advocacy” of the vaccine, but the state’s medical staff. As a doctor, Cassidy believes that if partisanship is eliminated in the discussion, medical staff have the right to increase the vaccination rate.
“You need to get your doctor, your nurse, your doctor’s assistant to talk to the patients they usually take care of, and they see it at the PTA meeting, otherwise they will say,’This is good, it can save lives.'”
“What am I doing, I am trying to educate,” Cassidy told Wallace.
In the interview, Cassidy said he would push his state to “choose between being vaccinated or accepting a higher mortality rate.”
on Twitter, He said he would like to see Louisiana’s vaccination rate increase to “beat the pandemic.”
If we are to completely overcome this pandemic, Louisiana needs to increase our vaccination rates. We can no longer accept death. A vaccine is like a seat belt-you want to have it before an accident occurs.https://t.co/d5t6TTIDCU
-US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (@SenBillCassidy) July 18, 2021
“The vaccine is like a seat belt-you want to have it before the accident,” he captioned a tweet, linking to an article about Dr. Catherine O’Neill, the Baton Rouge Lake Notre Dame Regional Medical Center Chief Medical Officer. O’Neill emphasized the “vaccine or death” option.
“This is a way of communicating through your doctor, your nurse, your PA, etc., not through some super partisans who ask us to trust them unless they make incredible partisan comments,” Cassidy Say.
Weekly newspaper The White House was contacted for comments, but no response was received before the publication time.
