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Before the election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were vaccine-hesitant. Both cast doubt on the COVID vaccines, still in clinical trials last fall. Biden said, "I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don't trust Donald Trump." Did he believe Trump was cooking up the vaccines in the White House basement, the sole decision maker regarding approval, ignoring the pharmaceutical companies creating the vaccines, overseen, and ultimately approved by the FDA, not the president?
Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, cast similar doubt saying, "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." Again, it is the FDA, not the White House that is charged with approving vaccines.
Trump can say what he wants but if the regulatory authorities say otherwise, that's as far as it goes toward approval or usage. Look at hydroxychloroquine as an example.
In a hyper-politicized country, Americans tend to believe those with whom they identify politically. Hence those on the right supporting hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic and those on the left, like Fox News' Neil Cavuto, saying "it will kill you." If the future president and vice president were vaccine-hesitant, expect many Americans to adopt that view.
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