The delivery could have been clearer, but actually, Redfield is right. Is Redfield trying to prepare us for a largely ineffective vaccine? Even worse: Is he intimating that we shouldn’t trust the vaccine because it’s being rushed for political reasons? Cue anti-vax groups: Any minute now, they’ll be seizing on Redford’s statement to validate their skepticism. The statement is confusing, to put it mildly. Redfield: masks are better than vaccines. “I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine,” Redford said while testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services on expectations around the release of COVID-19 vaccines. Check out our most recent coverage of the coronavirus crisis, and subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Įarlier today, Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control, provoked the ire of some parts of the internet when he suggested that masks might be more effective than vaccines. Bernie Sanders.The coronavirus is a rapidly developing news story, so some of the content in this article might be out of date. In the first 24 hours of her campaign, Harris raised a staggering $1.5 million in direct contributions from more than 38,000 individual donors-tying a one-day record set in 2016 by potential opponent Sen. In response to Harris’ speech, Republican National Committee spokesperson Michael Ahrens dismissed the California Democrat’s platform as “totally out-of-step with most Americans.” But Harris has already proved a potentially formidable candidate in the party’s primary. “We’ve won, and we’ve lost-but we’ve never stopped fighting.” “The last couple of years, ‘For the People’ has meant fighting to hold this Administration accountable, and in that battle, I’ve seen the spirit of the American people,” Harris said. Her campaign slogan, “For the People,” is a nod to her time as a young prosecutor, when Harris would introduce herself in a courtroom as “Kamala Harris, for The People.” The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, Harris worked in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, and was eventually elected San Francisco’s district attorney.

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