WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt shared local news stories about Missourians who have become seriously ill or lost family members to COVID and urged others to get vaccinated. Blunt acknowledged people have been vaccinated but then got COVID-19, the Delta variant, as expected. “If you share those facts and figures right, that shouldn’t be a big shock,” he said. “As I recall, one of the vaccines had an 85% or so effectiveness rate. Another one had a 95% effectiveness rate. That would mean, you know, somewhere between five and 10 and 15 of every 100 people that get the vaccine are going to get COVID. But the good news is that the people that got the vaccine that got COVID have a very different circumstance than the people who didn’t get the vaccine and got COVID.” Blunt shared stories regarding Blunt shared stories regarding Missourians affected by the virus. “I had thre...