The Fox News host Neil Cavuto has “begged” viewers to toss out political talking points about Covid-19 vaccinations and get the shot.
“My God, stop the politics,” he told the network’s Media Buzz show…“Life is too short to be an ass. Life is way too short to be ignorant of the promise of something that is helping people worldwide. Stop the deaths, stop the suffering, please get vaccinated, please.”…
Fox News requires staff to be vaccinated or to take daily tests. Some hosts have advocated vaccinations and other Covid precautions.
…The primetime star Tucker Carlson, has pushed vaccine misinformation as part of attacks on public health mandates from government agencies and businesses and the Biden administration’s attempts to contain the pandemic.
Cavuto is immunocompromised, with multiple sclerosis and after open heart surgery. He’s said he expects to be attacked for his appeal. Especially given his role at FOX. I would expect so.
All the more reason to credit him him for his stand.
New Delta coronavirus subvariant AY.4.2: What we know so far : Experts are tracking a new mutation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus reported in dozens of countries.* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/31/hld-new-delta-mutation-ay-4-2-here-is-what-we-know-so-far
“An increase in AY. 4.2 sequence submissions has been observed since July,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly epidemiological update this week. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-eye-delta-subvariant.html
* see also:
What is the Delta Plus coronavirus variant?
What is the Lambda coronavirus variant?
What we know about the new C.1.2 coronavirus variant
Earlier this year, researchers found that many wild deer in Michigan had antibodies that suggested the animals had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was a significant cause for concern, as a large population of susceptible animals could act as a reservoir that allows the virus to spread back to humans. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/sars-cov-2-seems-to-readily-jump-to-deer-spread-among-them/
On Monday, a new paper presented evidence that infection is widespread in a second state, driven both by its spread from humans and deer-to-deer transmission. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.31.466677v1
“Susceptibility of Domestic Swine to Experimental Infection with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2” (CDC Jan 2021) https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/1/20-3399_article
“Domestic swine, one of the most highly produced agricultural species, previously have impacted public health. Backyard, small stakeholder animal production has increased in both rural and urban environments and provides a source of high-quality protein and income in these areas, but the practice also can serve as a source for zoonotic disease; therefore, the potential role of pigs in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 should be investigated”
“Conservative news network Newsmax issued a pair of statements Tuesday distancing itself from “false claims” about coronavirus vaccines made by one of its correspondents.
Emerald Robinson, a White House correspondent for the outlet, sent out a tweet Monday that erroneously claimed the vaccines “contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked.” https://thehill.com/homenews/media/579696-newsmax-defends-vaccines-in-rebuke-of-its-own-reporters-false-claims
“Newsmax, which is popular among viewers loyal to former President Trump, is one of several right-wing news agencies and media personalities that have been sued this year by Dominion Voting Systems for allegedly peddling false claims about 2020 election fraud.”
“Ted Cruz And Other Right-Wingers Squawk After Big Bird Gets Vaccinated : The iconic Sesame Street bird flew right into the culture wars by tweeting about his new COVID-19 vaccine.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-bird-ted-cruz-covid-vaccine-flap_n_618728ffe4b0c8666bdda473
Flashback: Big Bird gets vaccinated (1972) https://twitter.com/muppetwiki/status/1457121825746526211
The damage caused by Covid-19 to the lungs’ smallest blood vessels has been intricately captured using high-energy X-rays emitted by a special type of particle accelerator.
Using HiP-CT, the research team, which includes clinicians in Germany and France, have seen how severe Covid-19 infection ‘shunts’ blood between the two separate systems – the capillaries which oxygenate the blood and those which feed the lung tissue itself. Such cross-linking stops the patient’s blood from being properly oxygenated, which was previously hypothesized but not proven. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933801
Photos and videos from the Human Organ Atlas https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2y8bzy8o2n9u4aw/AAAWNmoxTYK3AcwXY5cQZS9ma?dl=0
I was shocked when trump told his base to get it, and he was hilarious
“From the very beginning, misinformation has plagued the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, undermining efforts to stop the spread of the disease and save lives. New survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) spotlights just how monstrous the problem of misinformation is.
Among a nationally representative sample of US adults, 78 percent reported that they had heard at least one of eight common COVID-19 falsehoods and either said the falsehood is true or said they’re not sure if it’s true or false.
The most common falsehood that people marked as true was that “the government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths.” Thirty-eight percent of respondents said they had heard this falsehood and that it is true. An additional 22 percent said they had heard it but weren’t sure if it is true or false.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/38-of-us-adults-believe-government-is-faking-covid-19-death-toll/
OAN, Newsmax viewers are the most misinformed about COVID, survey data finds.
If we see the states with the highest vaccinated populations have the most covid cases, indicating the vaccine might be causing, in some fashion, more covid cases, why would we get the vaccine?
Try opening your eyes, if not your mind. Regardless of population size in any state, the overwhelming majority of cases are the UNvaccinated. The vaccine only works on folks with sufficient education and understanding to avail themselves of the science. The rest are stuck with “thoughts and prayers”.
How are you doing my dear
And even in instances when vaccinated are infected, the resultant infection is reduced and less dangerous.
There’s an old saying: There are none so stubborn as will not see. It’s a strange, but troubling, phenomenum of pride, but that’s as it is. Okay. I shared. Let people seek to understand or not.
Fox anchor survives second Covid case and tells detractors: ‘Sorry to disappoint’ : Neil Cavuto returns to Fox Business to say doctors told him only vaccination saved his life this time https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/22/neil-cavuto-fox-news-business-covid-vaccination-death-threats
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