Trump supporter won't take COVID vaccine because 'he didn’t develop it -- scientists did'

A supporter of former President Donald Trump says she will not take the novel coronavirus vaccines because the former president was not personally involved in their creation.

In an interview with the Washington Post, an 80-year-old Trump voter from Oklahoma named Margaret says that she will not get the COVID-19 vaccine even though the first vaccines for the virus were announced in the final months of the Trump administration.

"He didn't develop the vaccine," she said in justifying her lack of trust in in the vaccine. "Scientists did it."

Margaret's comments are part of a larger story in the Post about diehard Trump supporters who are refusing to take any vaccines, which could jeopardize America's chances of achieving herd immunity and ending the pandemic that so far has killed 525,000 Americans.

"A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released last month found that 28 percent of Republicans said they would 'definitely not'get vaccinated, and another 18 percent said they would 'wait and see' before getting a shot," the Post notes.

Even though Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference last month that all Americans should get vaccinated, one former Trump official complains to the Post that Trump waited months before publicly promoting vaccinations.

"I wish it had been earlier," the official comments. "He's the only one that can get to these people."