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Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel sounded the alarm on Tuesday that the measles outbreak impacting the southwest United States “is not going to be stopped without the vaccine,” all while lamenting that “vaccine confidence is at an all-time low.”.
“Our results show that Fox News is reducing COVID-19 vaccination uptake in the United States, with no evidence of the other major networks having any effect,” the ETH Zurich study concluded.
“The researchers noted that, for example, Fox News pundit Sean Hannity told viewers at the time that COVID-19 was made up by the ‘deep state,’ and then-Fox business anchor Trish Regan characterized the virus as ‘a scam.’”.
Studies have found that vaccine hesitancy increased dramatically among regular viewers of Fox News.
Siegel added that, among the unvaccinated, measles leads to hospitalizations in about one in 10 cases and that over a dozen Texas patients are currently in the hospital with the disease.
