4 former surgeons general join call for 'National Vaccine Day'

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Four former surgeons general are joining a campaign calling for a National Vaccine Day to 'focus our nation's attention on the importance of vaccination.'

"Americans have endured incredible hardship over the last year. Many of us know someone who has died or fallen gravely ill from COVID-19," Antonia Novello, M.D., Joycelyn Elders, M.D., David Satcher, M.D., PhD, and Richard Carmona, M.D wrote in the letter."But the advent of safe and effective vaccines provides a light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccination has enabled humanity to triumph over terrible diseases like smallpox and measles.

It's an ambitious campaign, acknowledged Abie Rohrig, a spokesperson for 1Day Sooner, particularly as the last federal holiday to be enacted was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. But, Rohrig told ABC News,"If there were ever a year that a federal holiday to celebrate vaccination were possible, it's 2021. The positive impact of vaccines has never been so apparent."A pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site, Feb.

“There are many reasons for some not wanting to be vaccinated,” Carmona told ABC News. “Some are based on mistrust, others on uncertainty, religious or personal beliefs or various unfounded conspiracy theories that continue to plague the media.”

 

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Tell Fauci to stop his media tour and stating how you still need to distance, wear masks etc. People are feeling there is no purpose in getting it. Message needed be delivered more effectively

this is an outstanding holiday.... an appointment card plus a signed vaccine receipt should allow people to turn it into a paid holiday while for everyone else its just an 'observance day.' If theres one thing that will get some repub antivaxers to vaccinate, its a paid holiday.

And make it a long weekend holiday!

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