Covid-19

Fox News is moving even further toward being fully anti-vaxx.

Tuesday night on the conservative channel's "Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham booked Dr. Peter McCullough, who falsely told America, "There's no reason right now, no clinical reason to go get vaccinated."

Previous stories have revealed that former President Donald Trump's COVID-19 infection was far worse than had originally been reported. It was revealed earlier that Trump was on supplemental oxygen at the White House, but his oxygen rate dropped so low that White House staff grew concerned. That's when Trump was given the option of walking out to the helicopter or being wheeled out in front of the press.

In Michael Bender's new book, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost," it was revealed that Trump was so ill that chief of staff Mark Meadows was asking staff to pray for him.

They claim they "follow the science," but since President Joe Biden's program to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 became immensely successful, Republican lawmakers have gone from touting it as a miracle – when Donald Trump was president – to attacking it and any efforts to encourage people to take it.

The only thing that's changed is who sits in the Oval Office.

On CNN Wednesday, anchor Erin Burnett presented a damning supercut of Republican lawmakers and media personalities trying to scare people off getting the COVID-19 vaccines.

"Sources are telling CNN that the Biden administration is taking on a new aggressive strategy as the CDC, for the first time since late April, is projecting COVID hospitalizations are expected to spike," Burnett began. "Now, in Los Angeles County, every COVID patient hospitalized right now is unvaccinated. Across the country, more than 99 percent of COVID-19 deaths right now are among the unvaccinated."

On CNN Wednesday, Michael Bender, author of the Trump election expose book Frankly, We Did Win This Election, regaled the story of a sick supporter of the former president who refused a COVID-19 test — because he thought it would make Trump look bad.

"One of the things this book does that I don't think any other Trump book — we go behind the scenes in the Oval Office, and I spent two years with a really hardcore cross-section of the Trump base, folks who go to 10, 20, 30, 50 rallies, to try to understand their appeal and really why they still go today," said Bender. "Well, these people were misled when it comes to COVID."

CNN's Jake Tapper interviewed Wall Street Journal reporter Michael C. Bender on Wednesday and came away stunned at his revelations about how former President Donald Trump showed total disregard for a pandemic that has killed 600,000 Americans.

During the interview, Tapper cited a quote from Trump in which he told Bender that he didn't have time to read any new data or information about the coronavirus pandemic because he was too busy giving Bender interview time.

Fox News' Tomi Lahren on Wednesday drew heavy criticism after she complained about efforts to get Americans vaccinated while falsely claiming that "lawlessness and thuggery" were more dangerous than COVID-19.

Writing on Twitter, Lahren implied that there was too much attention being paid to the novel coronavirus when the focus should really be on violent crime.

The pastor of a Texas church publicly prayed for God to end COVID-19 after at least 125 children and adults contracted the virus at a student ministry camp, where masks reportedly were optional and most children were old enough to be vaccinated.

"Lord, we didn't want to be in the news, at least not for this, maybe for serving or some extreme generosity, but not this," Pastor Bruce Wesley of Clear Creek Community Church said in a video posted online. "So we ask for your mercy. We ask for your healing for all of those who became sick with this virus and for their families who've have been caring for them as well. We pray for complete recovery so that people don't have any lingering effects, and we pray that you would put a stop to the spread of this virus."

On Wednesday, Business Insider reported that far-right militias like the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters have faced legal and recruiting setbacks after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — but that they are trying to regroup with a new strategy: pushing anti-vaxxer propaganda.

"Members of the groups use apps such as Telegram to evade scrutiny and plot their next moves, experts told Insider," reported Tom Porter. "On mainstream platforms such as Facebook they are seeking to pull in new recruits under the anti-vaccine cause. The development marked a new intertwining of two dangerous conspiracy-theory movements, according to Jason Blazakis, Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at California's Middlebury Institute of International Studies."

A Florida man regrets his decision to put off getting vaccinated against the coronavirus after an infection ravaged his respiratory system.

Blake Bargatze was the only one in his family who wasn't vaccinated, and he became infected with COVID-19 in April while in Florida, and the 24-year-old needed a double lung transplant and has spent months in intensive care in hospitals across three states, reported WSB-TV.

Steve Mnuchin, who served as Treasury secretary under former President Donald Trump, refused to say whether the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" when he was repeatedly asked on Wednesday.

During an appearance on CNBC, correspondent Eamon Javers reminded Mnuchin about the "legacy of January 6th."

The Royal Navy's flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is managing a Covid outbreak after more than 100 crew were infected during a port call in Cyprus earlier this month, officials said Wednesday.

The first cases were identified on or around July 4 when the state-of-the-art aircraft carrier was docked at Limassol port on the island's south coast.

France marks its national day on Wednesday, July 14, after the annual military parade down the Champs-Élysées was cancelled last year due to the threat of Covid-19.

The traditional parade on France's national day returned Wednesday after a one-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.