Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses opposition to governments’ vaccine mandates. Kokai offered these comments during the Oct. 22, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Locke’s Mitch Kokai discusses political pushback over vaccine mandates
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