Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Health Care

	Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Health Care

Opposes vaccination or masking mandates for COVID

[On vaccinations]: "We have to make sure that we are not ripping away people's freedom to make the best decision for themselves and for their families," she says, defending her opposition to mandates to wear masks or get the COVID vaccine. "At the same time, we certainly want to protect people." And while she's said in the past that she's reluctant to tell others to get vaccinated, she now recommends it. "I (want) people to understand how I made that decision and the process that I went through." Source: KATV News ABC-7 on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race , Sep 14, 2021

National emergency on coronavirus in January 2020

On January 31, 2020, President Trump had declared the coronavirus a public health emergency and announced travel restrictions for China. While the president and his team were starting preparations in the event of an outbreak in the United States, many leading Democrats in Washington were too distracted by impeachment to care about the emerging threat.

I talked to President Trump on the phone the day he declared a national emergency. "The American people want you to lead and be strong on this," I said. "Your decision today was a good one. Keep it up."

Despite criticism from Democrats and the media, the president made the right call with the travel ban. He was also right to declare a national emergency and implement social distancing guidelines--not forever, but until we flattened the curve--which likely prevented the failure of hospitals and prevented many American deaths.

Source: Speaking for Myself, by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, p.247 , Sep 8, 2020

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