Berklee College of Music honored Celine Dion, Donald Harrison, and Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of the Neptunes, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee honored Chita Rivera and André Watts.
The Fox News host did not come out and explicitly say that his viewers should
not take the vaccine; in fact, he congratulated those who already had. But he did raise specious concerns about the vaccination in a manner that could have deadly results for anyone looking for reasons to avoid vaccination.
His show opened with a segment focused on Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), which is a public health tracking system used to identify trends in reactions to the various Covid-19 vaccines. Carlson used it, however, to warn of an “apparent death rate from the coronavirus vaccines.”
Carlson did hedge his warnings about the vaccine with an odd disclaimer. “Vaccines are not dangerous,” he said, adding “that’s not a guess, we know that pretty conclusively from the official numbers.”
By Josh FeldmanMay 5th, 2021, 9:17 pm
Tucker Carlson opened his show Wednesday night with some irresponsible speculation about the covid-19 vaccines.
Carlson actually started his show Wednesday night by saying, “Here is a very simple question. How many Americans have died after taking the covid vaccines?”
Carlson devoted the intro of his program to raising questions about the “downside” of the covid-19 vaccines.
“You probably already had your shot, and good for you,” Carlson said, before telling unvaccinated people they’re going to be forced to get the shot, even through “social pressure.”
Carlson who has said on his show a few times recently he is personally pro-vaccine told his audience “vaccines are not dangerous” and that “that’s not a guess, we know that pretty conclusively from the official numbers.”
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