Opinion | Republicans unleashed a deadly vaccine skepticism. Can they now contain it?

As Republican pollster Whit Ayres notes, McConnell, who endured polio as a toddler, has at all times embraced the ability of vaccination. Extra shocking was a vaccine plug from Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, a longtime baiter of federal authorities whose reelection marketing campaign is selling merchandise mocking Anthony S. Fauci, the White Home well being adviser.