Rupert Murdoch gets vaccinated as his U.S Media Outlets, spread lies, attack essential workers

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Rupert Murdoch gets vaccinated as his US Media Outlets, spread lies, attack essential workers

Rupert Murdoch, the 89-year-old US citizen inoculated in England, as Tucker Carlson (He has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016) warns rollout campaign ‘feels false’

The 89-year-old was among the first in the world to be inoculated, receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab near his home in South Oxfordshire, England.

According to a statement on his behalf, the Australian-born US citizen was administered the vaccine “at his local GP's surgery after he received a call saying he was eligible”. 

“He has been isolating in the UK since the summer, with his wife Jerry Hall Murdoch,” said the statement issued by News UK.

It came as Tucker Carlson, one of the highest-profile hosts on Murdoch’s Fox News channel in the US, used his primetime Thursday night slot to sow doubt over the country’s inoculation campaign.

Denouncing the “glitzy” vaccination programme, Carlson told viewers: “So, how are the rest of us supposed to respond to a marketing campaign like this? Well, nervously.

“Even if you're strongly supportive of vaccines, and we are, even if you recognise how many millions of lives have been saved over the past 50 years by vaccines, and we do, it all seems a bit much. It feels false, because it is. It's too slick.”

Under a background headline reading, “Bad Vaccine Reactions”, he highlighted the “severe anaphylactic reaction” in a healthcare worker in Alaska. 

It is the first negative reaction to be widely reported in the US, but healthcare officials have said occasional allergic reactions are to be expected. She reportedly spent two nights in hospital and was recovering well, and was reported by CNN as saying she was “still enthusiastic that she got the vaccine”.

Murdoch’s titles in the UK have thrown their weight behind coronavirus vaccination, with The Times on Thursday publishing a comment piece headlined “It’s time to get evangelical about the vaccine”, which stated below: “The sooner we are inoculated, the sooner we’ll get back to normal life in all its quotidian glory.”

Those aged over 80 are second in line for the vaccine in the UK, with residents and staff in care homes for the elderly deemed the highest priority.