Fully vaccinated TV host promotes vaccine even after weeks in ICU

Fully vaccinated Fox News host Neil Cavuto has just returned to the air after a five-month absence part of which he spent in the intensive care unit (ICU) due to COVID pneumonia. This is Cavuto’s second COVID infection, the first one being in October of last year. 

Cavuto has been an avid devotee of the COVID-19 vaccine, imploring his audience in October to get vaccinated. 

"Whatever your views on mandates — and I get that, no one likes to be ordered to — but in the end, if you can get vaccinated and think of someone else and think of what that could mean to them and their survivability from something like this, we'll all be better off," he said. 

However, even though the three COVID shots did not prevent Cavuto from becoming seriously ill, this did not stop him from praising the vaccine. 

“But let me be clear, doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn’t be here,” Cavuto crowed on Cavuto: Coast to Coast yesterday. “It provided some defense, but that is still better than no defense.” 

Cavuto has been known to follow a more dramatic style rather than a scientific one. 

In May 2020, Cavuto became apoplectic when then-President Trump suggested hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a treatment for COVID-19. 

“It will kill you. I cannot stress enough: It will kill you,” Cavuto warned his audience, despite there being no scientific evidence to support the claim. 

In fact, multiple scientific studies support the effectiveness of HCQ against COVID-19, and physicians across the globe use HCQ as a cure for early disease. 

The COVID-19 vaccine has been pushed relentlessly as protective against hospitalization and death from COVID-19. In December, President Joe Biden insisted that those who were not vaccinated would experience a “winter of illness and death”. 

However, hospitals have been coming forward recently with a different story, one that contradicts the one from Cavuto and Biden. 

As reported by Frontline News, Blackpool Hospitals in the UK reported this month that 93% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were vaccinated. 77% of those were fully vaccinated with their third dose.   

Frontline News also reported that according to Dr. Yaakov Giris of Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, 80% of the hospital’s severe COVID cases are among the fully vaccinated.