Matthew McConaughey Voices Opposition to Vaccine Mandates for Children
Actor Matthew McConaughey says while he is not opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine, he does not believe children should be required to get it. During the The New York Times’s DealBook summit, McConaughey explained he wants…
Actor Matthew McConaughey says while he is not opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine, he does not believe children should be required to get it.
During the The New York Times’s DealBook summit, McConaughey explained he wants to “trust in the science,” adding, “Do I think that there’s any kind of scam or conspiracy theory? Hell no, I don’t.”
He continued, “We all got to get off that narrative. There’s not a conspiracy theory on the vaccines.”
McConaughey said he is not vaccinating his children but he and his wife have been vaccinated.
“We have a high-risk person in our household, my mother who’s 90 and she’s immune compromised,” he said.
When asked why he does not want his kids to be vaccinated, McConaughey replied, “We go slow on vaccinations anyway, even before Covid.”
He claimed they have “quarantined harder than any of our friends.”
McConaughey told the host he “couldn’t mandate having to vaccinate the younger kids. I still want to find out more information.”
Watch his comments below (starting around 21:50):
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows more than 360,000 children under the age of 12 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.