Fox News Covid Policy: Get Vaccinated or Get Tested Daily
September 2021 - Despite many of its on-air personalities raising doubts as to the efficacy of the Covid vaccine, questioning the effectiveness of wearing masks, and some even promoting unproven (and potentially dangerous) Covid "treatments", here is the Fox News corporate Covid policy for its employees: get vaccinated or prepare to get tested daily. And when at the office in small work spaces, wearing a mask is mandatory.
Particularly noteworthy about these corporate Fox policies is they were put in place prior to President Biden's recent push for employers of over 100 workers to require that either their employees be vaccinated or be tested regularly for Covid. But wait, that's not all! The Fox policy goes even further than the Biden team's initial proposal: Fox requires daily testing for those who are not vaccinated, while the White House indicated that the testing requirement for unvaccinated employees likely would be weekly.
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Kevin Lord, head of Human Resources for Fox Corp (the parent of Fox News), released this Covid information a few weeks ago and also stated that 90% of Fox employees already have received the vaccine. He knows that number because, effective in August, Fox began requiring all employees to report their vaccine status.
Charges of hypocrisy from across the political spectrum quickly followed the release of Lord's memo. Left-leaning and moderate voices tended to be amused at Fox's hypocrisy but still critical of Fox for allowing its commentators to continue pandering to the anti-vax crowd, given that most of the Fox talking heads know a vaccinated public would eliminate the virus.
Voices on the extreme right questioned why Fox has been critical of the vaccine and yet has implemented workplace policies that are even stricter than those proposed by Mr. Biden.
As we've said before, regardless of your political opinions on the issues of the day, fighting the Covid pandemic should never have become a political issue. With enough vaccinated Citizens, the nation can reach the herd immunity level needed to eliminate the virus (remember that vaccines have eliminated polio, smallpox, etc.). We encourage everyone to talk with their doctors, get the true facts, and then get vaccinated. We are confident the vaccine is safe and receiving it is the quickest and safest way for our country to return to normal.
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