Fox News Anchor Deletes Tweet Suggesting Colin Powell’s Death “Raises New Concerns” About Covid Vaccine Efficacy

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Fox News anchor John Roberts has deleted a tweet suggesting that previous Secretary of Point out Colin Powell’s dying “raises new concerns” about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.

In the now-deleted tweet, Roberts reported “the fact that Colin Powell died from a breakthrough COVID an infection raises new issues about how helpful vaccines are long-time period.” 

Roberts deleted the tweet amid backlash and later issued observe-ups professing that he’d deleted it due to the fact “many men and women interpreted it as anti-vax.”

He referred to as Powell’s loss of life “a loss for our group and our nation,” noting that he and Powell lived in the identical city and would operate into every other “at the neighborhood sandwich shop.”

I deleted my tweet about the tragic death of Colin Powell because numerous men and women interpreted it as anti-vax. It was not. I was thrilled to get vaccinated, hoping it would help velocity a return to ‘normal life’. I also did a PSA on Fox encouraging vaccination for people able….

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) Oct 18, 2021

As we all know, the Fda is now recommending boosters for selected persons, and I individually know a number of individuals who have had breakthrough bacterial infections – some of them, rather troubling. Indeed, Powell experienced myeloma, but I was nonetheless surprised to hear of his passing from COVID….

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) Oct 18, 2021

..we are living in the similar city, and we would once in a while operate into each at the area sandwich shop. His loss of life is a loss for our group and our state.
I prepare to get a booster as quickly as possible.

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) October 18, 2021

Powell’s dying is the most superior-profile Covid-19 breakthrough circumstance that we know of. Info from the Centers for Disorder Regulate and Prevention (CDC) shows that breakthrough situations are rare and that deaths from breakthrough infections are even rarer. There have only been approximately 7,000 breakthrough instances ensuing in demise among 187 million vaccinated People in america.

Alan is a author, editor, and news junkie based mostly in New York.