Wizards’ Bradley Beal not getting vaxxed for ‘personal reasons’
Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal on Monday cited “private causes” for not getting vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, including he hopes that his earlier bout with the virus will shield him.
Beal made the feedback in the course of the crew’s media day.
Beal contracted COVID-19 over the summer season, stopping him from taking part in within the Tokyo Olympics. Beal declined to say why he wouldn’t get vaccinated.
“Private causes,” Beal stated. “I would really like a proof to … folks with the vaccines, ‘Why are they nonetheless getting COVID?’ … It doesn’t get rid of anyone from getting COVID, proper?”
Beal stated he “didn’t get sick in any respect” throughout his bout with the virus over the summer season.
“I misplaced my odor, that’s it,” Beal stated, including that he doesn’t really feel strain to get vaccinated.
“I don’t suppose you may strain anyone into making a choice about their physique or what they put into their physique,” Beal stated. “You sort of let folks come into their very own about it. … I speak it over with my household and we make a gaggle resolution that we really feel is finest for us, similar to the remainder of the world.”
Beal stated his mother and father in addition to his brothers are vaccinated, saying he understands “either side of it,” together with reactions to the vaccine itself.
“Some folks have unhealthy reactions to the vaccine, no person desires to speak about that. What occurs if one in every of our gamers will get the vaccine and so they can’t play after that? Or they’ve problems after that? As a result of there are circumstances like that.”
Beal additionally addressed a report from The Athletic earlier within the day that Russell Westbrook tried to speak Beal into asking for a commerce out of Washington collectively.
“This occurs yearly. Gamers are going to speak,” Beal stated. “I wasn’t in the identical head house that he was … we had nice conversations main as much as it … I’m completely happy for him.”
Beal averaged a career-high 31.3 factors per recreation final season, incomes his third All-Star look.
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