The split among politicians isn't that stark, but basically all the ones who are openly skeptical about the covid vaccines are on one side.Was it really as split as the posts here imply?
Genuinely asking as a non-American, but it just baffles me if so!
I despise our Tory government, but on the vaccine front all of our politicians have been broadly in line and encouraging take up (a few outliers aside)
Even those politicians who have been skeptics of restrictions have seen vaccines as a good reason to reopen things.
For example, Ivey is different from Florida's governor DeSantis in that she's not actively contributing to the politicization of vaccination and attacking Dr. Fauci, but she is still contributing to the problem in that she's basically doing the bare minimum of telling people that the vaccines are safe and effective, and then saying "I've done all I could" while actively rejecting programs and ideas that could help increase the vaccination rate and lower the infection rate.