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Dr. Michelle Fiscus believes she was fired as the leader of Tennessee’s vaccination program after conservatives blasted her efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for teens.
In an interview with Scripps affiliate station WTVF in Nashville, Fiscus said Republican Gov. Bill Lee was too reluctant to publicly embrace coronavirus vaccines.
“That was a huge missed opportunity,” Fiscus said.
It was another complaint of politics getting in the way of handling a disease that has no political stripes.
Tennessee has among the lowest rates of inoculation in the country, something Fiscus said the governor has the power to change.
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Just a few weeks ago, much of the world seemed poised to leave COVID-19 behind.
U.S. President Joe Biden declared the U.S. close to independence from the virus. Britons hit the dance floor to celebrate “Freedom Day.” Singapore’s legendarily strict government signaled it would begin to loosen its zero-cases approach and make life and travel more manageable.
But if those places were ready to be done with COVID-19, the virus wasn’t done with them.
The sputtering U.S. vaccine campaign has run headlong into the highly contagious delta variant. The U.K.’s reopening has coincided with a new surge in cases and fears of “long COVID” in younger people. In Africa, deaths have spiked as vaccine supplies remain meager. And in Japan, rising infections have forced the already-delayed Summer Olympics to be played in empty stadiums and arenas.