Arkansas governor blames ‘myths’ for vaccine resistance

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he’s been traveling around the state to combat misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines and to reassure residents reluctant to get a shot that the vaccine isn’t a “bioweapon” as the pandemic surges once again with the emergence of the more infectious Delta variant.

He said resistance to the science has “hardened in certain elements, and is simply false information” during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.  “​It is myths. ​As I go into these town hall meetings, someone said: ‘Don’t call it a vaccine. Call it a bioweapon.’ And they talk about mind control,” said Hutchinson, a Republican. “Well, those are obviously erroneous. Other members of the community correct that.”​