Republican governors urge vaccine-hesitant residents to get Covid shots

Leaders of Arkansas, West Virginia, and Utah describe high stakes as Delta variant poses threat

Several Republican governors with lagging vaccine rates in their states have urged residents to accept the shots as the Biden administration comes under pressure to reopen US borders to overseas visitors.

The Arkansas governor, Asa Hutchinson, West Virginia's Jim Justice and Spencer Cox of Utah warned against vaccine hesitancy, which some disease experts, including the White House chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said could create two types of America".