Arkansas Governor: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Increasing Resistance to Vaccines

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson in the Senate Chamber of the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on April 8, 2020. Tommy Metthe/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP

Vaccine mandates are increasing people’s resistance to getting COVID-19 vaccines, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said on Oct. 24.

“The resistance is hard in some areas. And part of it is simply because of the controversy because of the mandates. It deepens the resistance. And so, that’s something we have to overcome,” Hutchinson, a Republican, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”