More GOP lawmakers embrace vaccine but still aren't calling out misinformation about it

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's "perplexed" why so many people in the country still aren't vaccinated. The answer may lie, in part, within his own party.

Even as Republicans move toward being more publicly trusting of the vaccine and personally reject anti-vaccine rhetoric, which McConnell did vocally early on, many in the GOP have still been reluctant to confront one of the biggest culprits of vaccine hesitancy: misinformation being spread by members of their own party. Even GOP lawmakers with medical degrees, who have been some of the loudest vaccine advocates in their party, have been reluctant to call out their Republican colleagues who are stoking fears about the vaccine or actively discouraging people from getting the shot.