Lauren Boebert forced to fend off vaccine conspiracy theorists after health crisis
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is on the receiving end of attention from COVID vaccine conspiracy theorists after suffering from a medical emergency.
According to Jason Salzman of the Colorado Times Recorder, "In the days after U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was rushed into emergency surgery to remove a blood clot that threatened her life, the online underworld swirled with speculation that the clot resulted from Boebert receiving a COVID vaccination."
In a recent interview with local radio host Jay Dee, the far-right lawmaker told the anti-vaccine crowd this was false — and reminded them that she was one of them.
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“I’m not COVID vaxxed. So we can we can squash those rumors now,” said Boebert.
"Throughout the pandemic, Boebert repeatedly slammed efforts to control the virus, baselessly calling federal health officials 'needle Nazis,' saying that half of COVID relief funds would fund abortions, and lashing out at public health officials," noted the report. Ironically, however, Salzman added, rather than for vaccine recipients, "blood clots continue to be a concern for people who contract COVID" — and typically the worst symptoms of the COVID vaccine are just fatigue and muscle pain that clear up within a couple of days.
Boebert, who had an exceptionally tight re-election contest in the 2022 midterm election and has been put on the back foot by a scandal involving lewd behavior on a theater date, is currently trying to jump ship to a more conservative district on the other side of Colorado.
Vaccine conspiracy theorists, who gained new national prominence following the COVID pandemic, have often tried to blame any medical illness or death of public figures on the COVID vaccine — even when there is no evidence whatsoever. Following the death this month of controversial former football star O.J. Simpson from prostate cancer at age 76, far-right InfoWars webcaster Alex Jones baselessly fingered the COVID vaccine, posting that "Turbo Cancers are off the charts, and we warned you."