Fox host calls COVID vaccine “experimental” and claims vaccinating children is a “political” decision
Hegseth: “Why are we pushing an experimental vaccine on young kids? This is obviously political”
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Citation From the February 23, 2022, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): This is a big scandal, Pete Hegseth. Not only did they basically say if you are under 50 and you've been vaxxed that you need the booster when you really didn't you were already protected. So people got boosted and Big Pharma got paid, we didn't really need it if we were under 50 and vaxxed. So that is very suspicious. But if they don't give you information about breakthrough cases, they said it was because they didn't want people to doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine.
PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): Too much ambiguity, someone could question it. Someone could actually analyze it and then give us good information about it. Instead, no, they instead treat us like children.
WATTERS: Right.
HEGSETH: It's booster, booster, booster. That's your only option. Do you have your booster booster booster? Don't look at the data. And, oh, by the way, forget the data on 18 to 19-year-olds. Let's get -- let's be looking at 12-year-olds and then we've got to be looking at 5 to 11. I mean, think about it, if you can't look at the data for young healthy people, why are we pushing an experimental vaccine on young kids? This is obviously political.