>> reporter: there is a growing number of conservatives who have used their platforms to bad mouth covid-19 vaccines but did not live long enough or are too sick to tell their public just how much they regret it. >> i didn't want to be a guinea pig. he didn't want to be a guinea pig. >> reporter: amy lee hare is talking about her friend florida conservative radio show host dig ferrell who repeatedly told people not to trust the vaccine. why get a vax promoted by people who lied to you he posted. and vaccine bogus bull he proclaimed. that was early july. a few weeks later he was in the hospital dying from covid-19. >> they told me this pandemic ain't no joke and he said you need to get the shot and he told me he wished he had. >> reporter: the statistics that more than 600,000 americans have died from covid hadn't swayed him or her. why did it take dig ferrell's dying from covid for you to say i'm taking it? >> there is a pandemic of