An ultra-conservative US radio host who spread false claims about vaccines and fought Covid rules in court has died after a two-week battle with coronavirus.
Bob Enyart, 62, a self-proclaimed ‘right-wing religious fanatic’ who also worked as a church pastor in Denver, Colorado, told his listeners three of the main Covid vaccines were tested on ‘the cells of aborted babies’.
Calling Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson ‘child killers’, he said anyone who considers themselves ‘pro-life’ should refuse the jab.
Enyart last made headlines when he filed a lawsuit through his Baptist church challenging Colorado’s coronavirus restrictions.
Enyart’s wild claims on vaccine testing may have arisen from a severe misinterpretation of the use of lab-replicated fetal cells in the production process. These do not derive from real fetal tissue and have been used in the development of many kinds of vaccine.
His stance on vaccines stood in contrast to his efforts to debunk other Covid conspiracies popular in the US, such as that ‘the media planned the pandemic (to get Trump),’ or ‘the global elite planned this (toward ushering in the anti-Christ)’.
His self-proclaimed view was that ‘mitigation efforts appear to be worse than the disease’.
Enyart’s wife Cheryl also contracted Covid-19 after refusing to get vaccinated.
Their diagnosis was confirmed on the website of the long-running talk radio show, in which their son Dominic wrote: ‘After about a year and a half, the COVID finally found its way to the Enyart family.
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