A pair of Fox News hosts on Monday urged viewers of the network to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, dismissing conspiracy theories about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
“Well, here’s the thing. And one of the CDC officials said yesterday, look, the pandemic right now is really just with people who have not been vaccinated. 99 percent of the people who died have not been vaccinated. What they are trying to do is make sure that all of the people who have not been vaccinated get vaccinated,” host Steve Doocy said Monday on “Fox & Friends.”
“Unfortunately, and this is one of the reasons apparently that Joe Biden and the administration came out last week, the administration very frustrated. They have not been able to get Facebook to get rid of some of the disinformation. The disinformation is online: The vaccine is killing lots and lots of people or it changes your DNA or there are little microchips. None of that is true.”
After co-host Ainsley Earhardt noted the recent concerted effort coming from the White House to fight the proliferation of vaccine misinformation, Doocy spoke directly to Fox News viewers, saying, “If you have the chance, get the shot, it will save your life.”
During a separate segment on Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” host and anchor Bill Hemmer asked Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel: “The vaccine works, right? We haven’t budged on that, have we, doc?”
“The vaccine works extremely well even against the delta variant, preventing infection in 90 percent of cases,” Siegel responded.
The comments from the Fox News personalities come amid criticism the network has been hit with over controversial comments some hosts have made about local lockdown measures, face mask mandates, vaccine science and the pandemic as a whole.
Last week, The New York Times published a story detailing a litany comments made by prime-time hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham that the outlet said ran “at odds with the recommendations of health experts” relative to vaccines.
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— The Hill (@thehill) July 19, 2021
Fox couldn't care less about our applause or opprobrium. They care about legal exposure and the bottom line. Hannity on radio and the rest of Fox is still pumping the bullshit. So, no, they don't get attaboys for this. They get "Do more, and pressure Carlson and Ingraham too." https://t.co/cLKh9PanbS
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 20, 2021
Exactly this. And you don't applaud people for it, you nod and say "it's about time you showed an ounce of damn responsibility, even if it was under duress. Now go down the hall and talk to your colleagues to get them to stop undermining that message." https://t.co/QWVyHOKzrA
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 20, 2021
On his radio show, Hannity said almost same thing except he added 2 things: 1) He urged listeners to do their own research about vaccines risks; 2) he said vaccines weren’t as essential because hydroxychloroquine is effective.
His radio audience is 4x size of his fox audience. https://t.co/4siZbnZIUu
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) July 20, 2021
I don’t care what these charlatans say now. Their constant denial of COVID and the misinformation they disseminated to viewers about the vaccines has contributed to Trump’s ongoing genocide. In a perfect world Trump and his accomplices including these “personalities” would be arrested and charged with mass murder. But of course, it won’t happen.
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