MSNBC Medical Contributor Dr. Vin Gupta took a shot at Fox News Tuesday when he said that the information being shared on the network about COVID-19 vaccinations is killing people.
Gupta, who works as Affiliate Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) made his comments on Morning Joe.
“To your point about Fox News, if I may, I think they’re recognizing that they are — that they could be potentially culpable for putting out misinformation that could kill people,” Gupta told co-host Willie Geist.
Gupta also said that the nation’s public health and medical experts focus less on masks and more on outreach to the unvaccinated.
As the interview progressed, he did not back down from holding Fox News responsible for some of its perceived irresponsible reporting.
“At this point saying not to get vaccinated, which some anchors continue to draw questions on or inject some uncertainty about whether or not you should get vaccinated, or whether vaccinations correlated to death, for example, there’s some very well-known anchors that continue to do that,” he continued.
“I think they recognize that they might be culpable in a court of law. That is actually putting out misinformation that is harming people.”
