Fauci: Republican vaccine deniers are hurting efforts to lift Covid restrictions

On the one hand they want to be relieved of the restrictions. On the other hand, they don't want to get vaccinated'

Republicans who refuse the Covid-19 vaccination are actively working against" efforts to lift the very coronavirus restrictions they insist are an infringement of their civil liberties, Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government's leading infectious disease expert, said on Sunday.

Fauci's comments came as the government announced that half of all adults in the US had received at least one Covid-19 shot, marking another milestone in the nation's largest-ever vaccination campaign. Almost 130 million people 18 or older have received at least one dose of a vaccine, or 50.4% of the total adult population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported. Almost 84 million adults, or about 32.5% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.