The GOP's misguided pushback against door-to-door vaccine outreach

MaddowBlog: President Biden is renewing efforts to get vaccines to communities with low vaccination rates. The Republican pushback is ... unhelpful.

In theory, public-officials wouldn't need to get creative while encouraging Americans to get vaccinated. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of millions, and in the United States, vaccines are free, safe, and readily available. The recipe for success couldn't be much easier.

But in practice, there's still a chunk of the population that won't roll up their sleeves. Officials have come up with all kinds of enticements intended to coax Americans into doing the obvious thing, but some won't budge -- despite the fact that an even-more-dangerous variant of the virus is spreading.

The comments hardly seemed controversial. Officials now believe the most effective outreach doesn't come from celebrities, but rather, from trusted local leaders, neighbors, and family physicians making direct pitches to holdouts.

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