For months, health experts warned that distributing the coronavirus vaccines would be the easier part of the immunization process. The hard part would come later, when millions of people on the fence would need to be convinced to get a vaccine.

Unfortunately, many Democrats ignored this warning when the vaccines were in clinical trials because they were on track to be approved by the “wrong” administration. Vice President Kamala Harris shares a large part of the blame. She openly questioned whether people should trust the vaccine during the 2020 presidential campaign, suggesting that the only reason the Trump administration would roll out the vaccines so quickly was because former President Donald Trump wanted to win reelection.

“I think that we have learned since this pandemic started, but really before that, that there’s very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth,” she said back in September.

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When asked whether she would get the coronavirus vaccine if it were approved before the November election, Harris was equivocal. “Well, I think that’s going to be an issue for all of us,” she said. “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump. And it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about. I will not take his word for it.”

She doubled down a few weeks later during the vice presidential debate, saying, “If Dr. Fauci, the doctors, tell us that we should take [the vaccine], I’ll be the first in line to take it. But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I’m not going to take it.”

In reality, this was a disingenuous argument at the time. There was no way in which vaccines would be pumped into arms purely on Trump’s say-so. Any vaccine was always going to have to go through significant testing, reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration, and administered by medical professionals. Harris was thus raising doubts merely to score political points. But the damage was done.

Read more at Washington Examiner.