Trump booed for saying he got a booster dose of the vaccine 0:53
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Former United States President Donald Trump received some boos on Sunday in Dallas when he said he had received a booster dose of the covid-19 vaccine, according to video of the closed-door press event that was shared. on social media.
Comments from Trump - who, despite defending his administration's efforts to develop covid-19 vaccines, rarely talks about his own vaccine and has largely refused to encourage others to get vaccinated. They came during a tour stop with former Fox News host Bill O Reilly.
According to the video tweeted by O'Reilly's "No Spin News," the former Fox News host says, "Both the president and I are vaccinated" and then asks Trump, "Did you get a booster dose?"
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"Yes," Trump says amid some boos from the audience.
"No, no, no, no, no," Trump says in the video, trying to calm the boos.
"Okay, it's a very small group there."
CNN has reached out to a Trump spokesperson for more details on the former president's decision to receive the booster dose.
In a longer video later tweeted on O'Reilly's site, Trump warns his followers that they are "falling into his hands" when they discard vaccines and do not take credit for them.
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"Look, we did something that was historic, we saved tens of millions of lives around the world. We, together, all, not me," says Trump in the video, which appears just before he receives some boos.
Trump adds that if vaccines had not been developed, Covid-19 would have "devastated the country much more than it does now."
"Take credit for it. Take credit for it. It's great. What we've done is historic. Don't let them take it from us. Let's not take it from ourselves," Trump says.
"They're falling right into your hands when they say, 'oh, the vaccine.' If you don't want to get it, you shouldn't be forced. No to mandates. But take the credit, because we saved tens of millions of lives. Take the credit. No let them take it from you. "
Unvaccinated people face a 10 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a 20 times greater risk of dying from the virus than fully vaccinated people who have also received a booster dose, according to data recently published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Information from the CDC, evaluating data through October, suggests that the risk gap between unvaccinated people and those who received a booster dose is even greater than between unvaccinated people and those who are fully vaccinated with their initial series. . Unvaccinated people face a five times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a 14 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people, according to CDC data.
Trump, who caught COVID-19 as president, received his first vaccination away from the press before leaving office.
CNN reported months later that the time of his vaccination was not recorded by official photographers or videographers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
And Trump did not participate in a public service announcement for COVID-19 that included all other living former presidents.
Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published in September that he was unlikely to receive the booster dose.
He said he felt he was "in good shape from that point of view" and would "probably not" get the booster dose.
"I'll check it out later," he added.
"I'm not against it, but it's probably not for me."
This is not the first time Trump has received boos when he talks about vaccines.
"I totally believe in your freedoms. I do. You have to do what you have to do. But I recommend getting vaccinated. I did. It's good. Get vaccinated," Trump said at an event in Alabama in August.
Some in the audience responded by booing the statement.
"No, it's okay. It's okay," Trump said, apparently acknowledging the boos.
"You have your freedoms, but it turns out that I was vaccinated. If it doesn't work, you will be the first to know, okay?"
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