GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert calls Biden’s door-to-door vaccinators ‘needle Nazis’

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert calls Biden’s door-to-door vaccinators ‘needle Nazis’

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert on Thursday called medical professionals conducting door-to-door vaccination efforts "needle Nazis," marking the second time in one week that a Republican member of Congress has likened the Biden administration's COVID-19 mitigation strategy to Nazism, the ideology that led to the Holocaust. "Biden has deployed his Needle Nazis to Mesa County," . "The people of my district are more than smart enough to make their own decisions about the experimental vaccine and don't need coercion by federal agents. Did I wake up in Communist China?" Only 42% of all residents aged 12 and above in Mesa County, located in Boebert's western Colorado congressional district, . The COVID-19 vaccines are not "experimental," and have all received emergency-use authorization from the Food & Drug Administration. In a Tuesday speech on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US's vaccine efforts, "we need to go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oft times door-to-door, literally knocking on doors" to reach individuals who haven't yet been vaccinated and offer a vaccine. The US fell short of Biden's goal for 70% of Americans to receive at least one shot by July 4, and , threatening to undo much of the progress the US has