How much of right-wing opposition to vaccination was Fox News’s fault?

The Washington Post ^ | October 10, 2022 | Philip Bump

[definitelynotaliberal]

Katie Lane’s father, Patrick, died of covid-19 in the summer of 2021. Hundreds of thousands of Americans did, of course, but Lane believes that her father was among the estimated 234,000 people whose deaths could have been prevented had he been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Asked during an interview on CNN why she thought her father chose not to get a dose of the vaccine, Lane suggested that there were a number of factors, media consumption included.

“He watched some Tucker Carlson videos on YouTube, and some of those videos involved some misinformation about vaccines,” Lane said, “and I believe that that played a role.” . . . Research published this month found a correlation between partisanship and rates of excess deaths during the pandemic. In places where vaccine uptake was lower — which correlates to support for President Donald Trump in the 2020 general election — Republicans died at a much higher rate than they did before the pandemic, a gap that primarily emerged in the months after the vaccine became widely available.

[TnTnTn]

The vaccine was not and is not effective….and much worse it is not safe having killed thousands of recipients admittedly by cdc and severely injuring millions more…the treatment protocols killed 1000s more…the American people were denied safe and fairly effective treatment using inexpensive drugs…this whole Covid fiasco created by an engineered virus and used by governments and pharma to promote their political and financial agendas is a crime against humanity of unprecedented proportions…

[marron]

I don’t remember Fox opposing the vax. Granted, I haven’t watched Fox since 2018, so all I know about them is what I pick up on FR.

The virus didn’t kill a million people. CDC protocols killed a million people.

And now the vax is killing people. I’m not happy to say that, some of my family took it to keep their jobs. And they keep getting Covid. Weird.

[x]

Even if he took the vaccine, he could have caught the covid and died.

It's possible but the vaccinated people who later caught COVID (Biden, Fauci) usually caught a weaker strain later and didn't die. I recognize the side effects of the vaccine, particularly with younger people, but for older people in vulnerable categories, getting the jab might have been a rational decision.

[nfldgirl]

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Haven’t watched Fox (s)Nooze since 2020 election.

[EVO X]

ETHzurish was going after FOX as early as June 2020, well before the jabs were availble. The following working paper is about 60 pages.

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/427768/CLE_WP_2020_10.pdf

Here is a 40 page working paper blasting FOX in July 2021 about jabs.

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/496948/CLE_WP_2021_09.pdf

All you have to do is read the first few pages to get the jest of the papers...

[RideForever]

for older people in vulnerable categories, getting the jab might have been a rational decision

I'm nearly 3/4 of a century old, but retained my critical thinking over the years. I came across Dr. Zelenko and his life-saving protocol with HCQ, zinc, Z-Pak producing near-zero deaths after 1000 cases. Meanwhile the CDC was intent on bumping up the death toll at every opportunity. When it changed the definition of 'vaccine' to include a product that modifies DNA as a 'vaccine', that act of dishonesty set off the alarm for me.

[Zathras]

Who is Katie Lane and why should we listen to anything she says?

[Boogieman]

“some of those videos involved some misinformation about vaccines”

In other words, those videos told the truth about vaccines, like that they do not prevent contraction or transmission, so they wouldn’t have saved this woman’s father.