Massie scolds reporter for questioning him on decision to decline vaccine: ‘First of all, it’s none of your business’

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Rep. Thomas Massie had a heated exchange with a reporter over the Kentucky Republican declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

“First of all, it’s none of your business, but I’m going to tell you,” Massie fired back at a reporter on Tuesday who said he dodged questions about whether or not he had been vaccinated. “I’m not vaccinated, and until there’s some science — by the way, I have a master’s of science degree from MIT. I’m not a virologist, but I can read data.”

“Everybody just needs to read, and don’t put your head in the sand. Look at the data,” Massie continued during the press conference regarding the Fire Fauci Act. “I’m not going to get the vaccine until there’s data that shows that it will approve upon the immunity that’s been conferred to me as a result of a natural infection that I had.”

Massie’s comments come just a week after a large study from scientists at the Cleveland Clinic found that vaccinating people who had already been infected with COVID-19 offered no additional benefit to that individual.

PEOPLE ALREADY INFECTED WITH COVID-19 GAIN NO ADDITIONAL BENEFITS FROM VACCINATION: STUDY

The study looked at over 52,000 Cleveland Clinic employees and found that there was no significant decrease in COVID-19 infections for people who had already had the virus and later received the vaccine. Of the COVID-19 infections that did occur, 99.3% were in people who had not been vaccinated or had a previous infection. The other 0.7% of infections came from vaccinated individuals with no previous infection. The study did not find a single case of a person who was previously infected with COVID-19 becoming reinfected, regardless of whether he or she had been vaccinated or not.

The study concluded that vaccines reduce the risk of COVID-19 for those who had never been infected.

Massie has long argued there wasn’t enough data to support the notion that those who have previously been infected with COVID-19 should receive the vaccine, saying last month that it was “unlikely” he would gain any benefit from being vaccinated.

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“I too am declining to take the vaccine because I previously recovered from SARS-CoV2 and it’s unlikely I would benefit from the vaccine at this point,” Massie tweeted at the time. “But notice how the media uses the verb ‘refuse’ instead of the more appropriate verb ‘decline.’”

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