Republican lawmakers must do more to encourage conservative voters in the state to get vaccines. That was the charge on Thursday from members of the Committee to Protect Medicare, a national political action group formed in 2016 by health care workers. "On every shift, I meet patients who think the pandemic is a hoax," said Dr. Max Cooper, an emergency room physician and co-leader of the Committee to Protect Medicare Pennsylvania. "Patients say that the vaccine could give them COVID-19, and they say that they got this information from people who they trust," said Cooper. Pennsylvania is already showing signs of slowing demand for the COVID vaccine.