Trump still has the ears of Republicans. He should tell them to get vaccinated. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Republicans are the most Covid-19 vaccine hesitant group. Trump can help.

Former President Donald Trump has long been a source of misinformation on the Covid-19 pandemic. But on Wednesday, he did something possibly, well, helpful: He told his supporters that the Covid-19 vaccines work.

“I would recommend it,” Trump said on Fox News. “And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. … It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works.”

He stopped a little short of outright telling his supporters to get the shots. “We have our freedoms,” he hedged, alluding to the fact that people can choose not to get