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<\/p>\nFox News is the undisputed leader in disseminating disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. Their top primetime hosts persistently downplay the severity of the crisis that they belittle as nothing more than the flu. Simultaneously they disparage efforts to mitigate its proliferation by taking such common sense measures as getting vaccinated and wearing face masks.<\/p>\n
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Fox’s status as America’s top pro-COVID “news”<\/em> network is affirmed by research finding that Fox News viewers significantly trail viewers of other media in getting vaccinated<\/a><\/strong>. This is unsurprising considering that their highest rated program host, Tucker Carlson, has articulated the false and paranoid view that vaccines don\u2019t work and \u201cthey\u201d<\/em> aren\u2019t telling you<\/a><\/strong>. And Sean Hannity is singing the same hymn<\/a><\/strong> as he assures his audience that “I never told anyone to get a vaccine. I\u2019ve been very clear. I am simply not qualified. I\u2019m not a medical doctor.”<\/em><\/p>\n On Thursday night their colleague Laura Ingraham joined the choir with an interview of Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. Ingraham was committed to providing Patrick with a platform to make implausible and brazenly racist excuses for why Texas is currently among the worst states in the nation suffering from a surge in COVOD cases and fatalities. And Patrick took full advantage of it:<\/p>\n Ingraham:<\/strong> They’re coming after your state cause the increased COVID numbers, hospitalizations, deaths, are up in Texas. And there’s a direct assault on your governor’s policies and your state’s policies. A very brief response. So it\u2019s up to the Democrats to get, just as it is up to Republicans, to try to get as many people vaccinated. But we respect the fact that if people don\u2019t want the vaccination, we\u2019re not going to force it on them. That\u2019s their individual right. But in terms of criticizing the Republicans for this? We\u2019re encouraging people who want to take it to take it, but they\u2019re doing nothing for the African American community that has a significant high number of unvaccinated people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames unvaccinated Black people for Covid spread in his state pic.twitter.com\/CfwajqECLM<\/a><\/p>\n — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nPatrick:<\/strong> The COVID is spreading particularly, most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated. And the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that. Well, the biggest group in most states are African-Americans who have not been vaccinated. And the last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats in the major cities and major counties.<\/p>\n\n