Fox News says employees must show proof of vaccination — and testing is no longer an option

On Monday, Jeremy Barr of The Washington Postreported that Fox News is updating its COVID-19 policy to require all of their employees in their New York City office be vaccinated.

Previously, the right-wing network had a policy that those wishing not to be vaccinated could instead submit to regular testing for COVID-19 — but under the new policy, this is no longer a substitute for being vaccinated at the New York office.

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This comes as New York sees a record spike in COVID-19 cases, driven primarily by the spread of the ultra-infectious Omicron variant — but hospitalizations are still under control in large part because of the state's high vaccination rate. At least 90 percent of Fox News employees are already vaccinated.

Despite its own newsroom policies, many Fox News personalities and anchors are railing against vaccine mandates on their network, with Laura Ingraham calling vaccine mandates an "anti-freedom" agenda pushing an "experimental drug on Americans against their will," and Tucker Carlson falsely claiming there's "no difference" in transmission between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. One analysis by the left-wing media watchdog group Media Matters found that from April to September, Fox News aired vaccine-critical content every day except two.