Katie Lane said that her father Patrick, who died of COVID-19 earlier this month, had 'watched some Tucker Carlson videos' that led to him becoming vaccine hesitant.
Katie Lane said that videos about the vaccines the featured Carlson"played a role" in her father's untimely demise during an interview with's John Berman on Monday. Patrick Lane, of Snohomish, Washington, died on September 10 at the age of 45. He had no pre-existing conditions and was thought to be in good health before contracting the virus.
"He watched some Tucker Carlson videos on YouTube," Katie Lane said after being asked what particular media source caused her father to become vaccine hesitant."And some of those videos involved some misinformation about vaccines. And I believe that that played a role." Lane also said that her father"wasn't by any means right-wing" but had"consumed media from both sides." Lane said that"misinformation from one of those sides made him hesitant" and he was waiting on full approval from the Food and Drug Administration before becoming vaccinated himself. Son Evan Lane said that his father"was not anti-vaccine" and likely would have taken an approved vaccine.
The daughter of a man who recently died of COVID-19 has blamed Fox News host Tucker Carlson for spreading"misinformation" about vaccines. Carlson is pictured during an event in Esztergom, Hungary on August 7, 2021.Patrick Lane came down with COVID-19 symptoms only days before the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine last month. Despite his apparent good health, his condition quickly deteriorated and he passed away less than two weeks later.