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

Fox News anchor John Roberts has deleted a tweet suggesting that erstwhile Secretary of State Colin Powell’s decease “raises caller concerns” astir the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.

In the now-deleted tweet, Roberts said “the information that Colin Powell died from a breakthrough COVID corruption raises caller concerns astir however effectual vaccines are long-term.” 

Roberts deleted the tweet amid backlash and aboriginal issued follow-ups claiming that he’d deleted it due to the fact that “many radical interpreted it arsenic anti-vax.”

He called Powell’s decease “a nonaccomplishment for our assemblage and our country,” noting that helium and Powell lived successful the aforesaid municipality and would tally into each different “at the section sandwich shop.”

I deleted my tweet astir the tragic decease of Colin Powell due to the fact that galore radical interpreted it arsenic anti-vax. It was not. I was excited to get vaccinated, hoping it would assistance velocity a instrumentality to 'normal life'. I besides did a PSA connected Fox encouraging vaccination for those able….

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) October 18, 2021

As we each know, the FDA is present recommending boosters for definite people, and I personally cognize a fig of radical who person had breakthrough infections – immoderate of them, rather troubling. Yes, Powell had myeloma, but I was inactive stunned to perceive of his passing from COVID….

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) October 18, 2021

..we unrecorded successful the aforesaid town, and we would occasionally tally into each astatine the section sandwich shop. His decease is simply a nonaccomplishment for our assemblage and our country.
I program to get a booster arsenic soon arsenic possible.

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) October 18, 2021

Powell’s decease is the astir high-profile Covid-19 breakthrough lawsuit that we cognize of. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that breakthrough cases are uncommon and that deaths from breakthrough infections are adjacent rarer. There person lone been roughly 7,000 breakthrough cases resulting successful decease among 187 cardinal vaccinated Americans.