Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) attempted to do damage control after first suggesting that vaccinations should be voluntary and then citing cases where he said children who took vaccines ended up “with profound mental disorders after vaccines.”
Paul, accompanied by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters, went to get a vaccine shot on Tuesday, a booster shot for Hepatitis A.
Ironic: Today I am getting my booster vaccine. Wonder how the liberal media will misreport this? pic.twitter.com/1vSqwfBp5u
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) February 3, 2015
In which @SenRandPaul and I go to the doctor; he gets vaccinated. “I think everybody should vaccinate their kids” pic.twitter.com/hiLAiftupe
— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) February 3, 2015
Paul also released a new statement on Tuesday saying he never said that there was a direct connection between vaccines and mental disorders.
“I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related —I did not allege causation,” Paul said according to NBC. “I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated.