Until this week, Fiscus was the top vaccine official for the state of Tennessee.
This is lunacy."
There is no reasonable or moral defense…"
MSNBC anchorRachel Maddow’stweetwas succinct and to the point.
“They’re now, like, pro-polio?”
she wrote as she shared the report on the cessation of the state’s vaccine outreach.
Stop the incessant push!!!"
Trump acolyte Ben Shapiro also attempted to explain the move,tweeting.
But vaccine hesitancy in Tennessee runs high, particularly in the rural parts of the state.
Vaccine resistance is strongest among those who are white, rural, Republican, and evangelical Christian.
Many believe the vaccine is part of a wider government plot (viaThe New York Times).
What the state has to come to terms with now is what doctors are saying about COVID casualties.
All he can do now is urge people toget the shot.
