Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, Asked About His State’s Low Vaccination Rate, Points to ‘Partisan Comments’ from White House

Senator Bill Cassidy (R- Louisiana) said people aren’t getting the covid-19 vaccine because of “incredibly partisan statements” from the Biden administration.

Chris Wallace asked Cassidy about Louisiana’s seriously low level of vaccination at this point.

“You’re a medical doctor. Your thoughts about that, about the resistance to the vaccine in Louisiana, and is there anything you can and plan to do about it?”

Cassidy pointed to “partisan comments” from the White House on other matters:

People are surprised when citizens don’t trust government, when you have partisan comments coming out of the White House regarding next Jim Crow laws, or people like Senator Schumer in the White House not cooperating on a bipartisan bill. “Oh, here we’re gonna be partisan, but over here, you better trust us.” That just doesn’t work.

“You need to have your doctor, your nurse, your physician’s assistant who’s speaking to the patients they normally care for they see at the PTA meeting they otherwise communicate, this is good, it saves lives,” he said.

Cassidy’s Twitter account posted a warning Sunday that Louisiana needs to get more people vaccinated to avoid any more deaths.

Louisiana needs to get our vaccination rates up if we're going to fully beat this pandemic. We can’t accept anymore death. Vaccines are like seatbelts—you want to have it before the accident happens.https://t.co/d5t6TTIDCU

— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) July 18, 2021

He added to Wallace, “You choose either to be vaccinated or to accept a higher rate of unnecessary death. That’s the way to communicate through your physician, your nurse, your P.A., etc., not through some uber-partisan person who asked us to trust them except when they’re making incredibly partisan statements.”

Some Republicans like Cassidy have been encouraging vaccines, while others like Ron Johnson have engaged in vaccine fearmongering.

You can watch above, via Fox News Sunday.

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