Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) spent his Tuesday morning helping nurses administer COVID-19 vaccines at a Maryland county health department clinic.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1365265
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1365265
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Ay caramba! I’m set to be vaccinated in his district later this week. I don’t want to receive my shot from him.
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That’s interesting, the photo caption lists him as a Dem in Md. Looked him up to see which way he was trending.
@summer_concepcion
Rep Harris, get the ersatz leader of you brigands to endorse getting vaccinated as he did.
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“Believe me, this is much more fun than being in Washington,” Harris, who is a Johns Hopkins-trained anesthesiologist, told the Baltimore Sun. “I’m more than happy to help whenever I can.”
And yet…
Harris, who voted against the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that delivered President Biden’s first legislative victory following its passage in Congress
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The idea of holding back the second shot might have made sense a couple of months ago, but Biden has ramped up production (with no help from Rep. Harris and his fellow Republicans) such that it really doesn’t today.
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“…except when it comes to voting for any COVID relief legislation. Screw THAT noise!”
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Yes, my daughter also volunteered. This is how at 30 something she got her vaccination early. 
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Harris, who voted against the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill…
Harris appears to be highly conflicted and hair-trigger quick to get hostile
“I actually practice in a hospital. Is that a PR stunt too?” Harris told the Baltimore Sun. “I still have a license, and I would urge every licensed physician and nurse to do it.”
Harris has pushed for the abandonment of the two-dose strategy for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines by pointing to U.K.-based research showing the efficacy in one dose in people who previously contracted the novel coronavirus.
So Harris is one of those jack-ass ego maniac physicians who thinks that medicine should whimsically conform to what ever he things should be the standard of care at that given moment - adequate study be damned - the extreme intensity of his opinion does not magically convert his opinion into reliable evidence.
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Maybe it’s just me but this going with the one dose when the FDA says two goes against my doctor’s instructions for taking the full course of a prescribed medication. I’m probably reading this the wrong way, but since he’s a Republican is this to cut costs?
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To attempt to rub sand in the face of the scientists.
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I don’t think it’s about cost. Everyone would eventually get their second dose, just not at the recommended interval. When supplies were very limited, there was an argument for it (though I didn’t agree, there was a case). Now, with doses being made rapidly, there isn’t any rationale.
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And yet this old dog is still gnawing on that bone.
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Andy Harris the gun guy rep that set off the metal detector?
I am glad he found an honorable use for that quick draw he has.
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Then, on another note:
Stupid-as-fuckism continues to rein in the GOP. Educated does not always translate to smart.
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As a physician giving shots, he might help a few hundred people. As a legislator, he has the ability to help hundreds of millions of people. An opportunity he apparently disregarded. Legislator, first do no harm.
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Exactly. Came here to post that very thing.
ETA: Having said that, I’m glad he is supporting vaccination publicly. We need all of the support we can get. The longer a bunch of people remain unvaccinated, the more chance for a variant to develop that throws us back into deeper crisis.
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Oh he’s that guy.
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I do have a tremendous respect for anetheologists. Have known a few. And I am glad he is out in the community helping out because he is indeed qualified to do so.
I also appreciate he wants to spread the vaccines far and wide.
But, alas, this is not settled science yet, because of the variants especially. Wished he had stuck to, “we are learning together, but some studies say…” type thing. Politics ruins it, I guess.
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It would seem that the Biden administration blew up the whole argument of holding off second shots in pursuit of more first shots by making certain that there would be a sufficient number of vaccines for everyone, without rationing them.
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