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Selome Hailu editorDick Farrel, a right-wing Floridian radio host, has died of complications from COVID-19, according to local news station WPTV.Farrel was vocal about his opposition to vaccination and general skepticism about the severity of the pandemic. On July 1, he made a Facebook post claiming to personally know two people in critical condition with COVID-19 despite being vaccinated.
On July 7, he called Dr. Anthony Fauci a “power tripping lying freak.” These posts were among several
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Instagram on Wednesday to share his grief in a lengthy post. He started off by begging his followers to read his post, stating it was the "most painful and the most intimate" message he has ever had to publish.
Phil Valentine, the Nashville-based radio talk show host known for his skepticism of Covid-19 vaccines, has died following a battle with the virus. He was 61.
pic.twitter.com/vhXpE7x0oXOn July 11, Valentine confirmed that he had been diagnosed with the virus on Facebook, telling his audience that he expected to be back soon. Prior to his illness, Valentine had voiced skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine.Just four days after announcing his diagnosis, Valentine tweeted a link to a Daily Caller article reporting on a recall of Johnson & Johnson sunscreens, writing, “Ah, but I’m sure their vaccine is perfectly safe.
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Only 35 of the more than 70,000 people who attended Garth Brooks’ concert in Kansas City on Saturday took advantage of a chance to get a COVID-19 vaccine, the Kansas City Health Department said.
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coronavirus vaccine before the schools return from summer holidays next week. 16 and 17-year-olds are now eligible for the covid jab after being granted permission by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) last week.
Daytona Beach News Journal on Monday.“I don’t have an update on him at this point, other than he has been hospitalized,” Mark McKinney, the station’s operations director, told the outlet. Bernier had been sick at home and off the air for the week leading up to his hospitalization. As host of “The Marc Bernier Show,” Bernier had expressed anti-vaccine sentiment less than a week before his hospitalization.
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the Daily Mail reported. Although Farrel called the vaccine “bogus bull shid” [sic] that’s “promoted by people who lied 2u all along” as recently as July on social media, loved ones now say that, after being hospitalized for the novel virus, Farrel changed his stance on the vaccine. “COVID Took One Of My Best Friends! RIP Dick Farrel. He is the reason I took the shot!” Farrel’s friend Amy Leigh Hair posted on her Facebook page after his August 4 death.
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WPTV. He was 65.
Appearing on Good Morning America Thursday, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said the U.S. is facing a cycle of new variants that are able to evade the current vaccines if the country does not get community spread of the Delta variant under control.
With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on ABC’s This Week to discuss what that means for Americans and whether or not we will see more lockdowns.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrench film exhibitors, producers and distributors will benefit from a €90 million ($106 million) rescue plan from the National Film Board (CNC) to compensate for revenue loss caused by the six-month shutdown of theaters.The scheme that was approved Thursday had been pushed by film guilds since May, when theaters reopened with an audience capacity limited at 65% and a 9 p.m. curfew, after being closed down since Oct.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed a business owner who only wants unvaccinated people to dine in his restaurant Wednesday and ended up calling him an idiot to his face.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNo vax, no entry: Google and Facebook, two of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, have both mandated that staffers have received COVID vaccines before they can return to the office.Google is requiring employees be vaccinated before coming back to the internet giant’s offices in the U.S.