Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the latest Republican to publicly voice support for COVID-19 vaccines, writing in a new op-ed for Arkansas Online that she got her shot after the former first family got their own. "Based on the advice of my doctor, I determined that the benefits of getting vaccinated outweighed any potential risks," Huckabee Sanders, 38, wrote in the editorial published Sunday.
She continued: "I was also reassured after President Trump and his family were vaccinated. If getting vaccinated was safe enough for them, I felt it was safe enough for me."
Recent weeks have seen an uptick in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and a shift in the way Republican officials publicly speak about the vaccine. Sanders took it a step further, however, attempting to tie the success of what she called the "Trump vaccine," to her former boss.
The Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed helped to fast-track the development and rollout of the shots, but the vaccines themselves were the result of global collaboration among scientists everywhere. As Business Insider notes, the most widely used vaccine in the U.S. — the one created by Pfizer/BioNTech — was developed by a Turkish-German scientist duo.
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