“I’m talking to our friends this weekend, both of them have advanced medical degrees, she’s vaccinated her husband’s not. She said, ‘Catie, every time he gives me an argument, he brings a graph.’ It’s a graph from social media. It’s some random thing that’s been posted … that says that highly vaccinated companies or countries are having surges and unvaccinated countries aren’t. It’s there, it’s and there’s a pretty graph,” O’Neal said. “And so if you’re angry, and you’re looking to stay angry, it’s there. If you want to find your argument, you can find it.”

Doctors and health officials in Alabama and Louisiana say their only hope for getting people vaccinated is if the media outlets that message to these areas, primarily Fox News, start advocating people get the shot, instead of pushing them away from the jab.

“I have people come up to me and say, ‘Why on CNN? Couldn’t you go on Fox?’ They are still very angry over the last couple of years. There’s an irritation. They are super frustrated. They need to hear it from the people that they trust. They need to hear it from where they get their news every day. And I don’t know why not Fox. Why not?,” O’Neal said. “But it has to change this week. Every single show. And it has to be about the community, not the ‘you’ because there’s been too much about the ‘you.’ ‘You’ they got indoctrinated. It is not about ‘you,’ it is about the community. You’re going to kill your community.”