Washington Post op-ed claims staying unvaccinated should be seen as bad as drunk driving

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Washington Post contributing columnist and CNN analyst Leana Wen continued to call for the unvaccinated to be shamed, saying not getting inoculated is as bad as drunk driving.

On Wednesday, Wen, along with Princeton University professor Sam Wang, wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post titled “Remaining unvaccinated in public should be considered as bad as drunken driving.” 

Wen, the former head of Planned Parenthood, and Wang admitted that some might “balk” at the comparison, but claimed that the comparison came because both are preventable, are “individual decisions with societal consequences,” and can cause “substantial mortality.” 

The piece also argued that those remaining unvaccinated should actually be perceived as worse than drunk driving given the raw numbers of fatalities.

Wen has also advocated for vaccination mandates in the past. In July, Wen wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that “Biden needs to get behind proof of vaccination, starting with his own White House events. It matters for everyone, including the vaccinated.”

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