Peter Hotez: 200,00 Americans needlessly perished because they refused the Covid vaccine

"You started to see the anti-vaccine rhetoric and statements made by elected members at the highest level of congress in the House Freedom Caucus and Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson and federal judges and governors like Governor DeSantis and then amplified on Fox News on a nightly basis as documented by 2 groups, by Media Matters...
What you're seeing now is becoming a well organized well financed political ecosystem...It was killing Americans...200,000 Americans needlessly perished because they refused the Covid vaccine during the Delta and BA1 waves in the middle of 2021-2022 after vaccine had become widely available..."