As with the pushing of anti-Bush forgeries, CBS News continues to push partisan propaganda at the expense of the truth.
Rather than cover actual scandals involving Democrat governors and their botched responses to COVID, CBS' "60 Minutes" tried to invent a scandal involving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' distribution of vaccines.
To push the false narrative and protect its favored governors, "60 Minutes" refused to interview people who disputed its false narrative, selectively edited video to hide facts, and omitted data that debunked its thesis and accurately describe Florida's success.
The success has happened even though Florida has the second-oldest population in the country and COVID is known for hitting seniors far harder than other age groups.
"60 Minutes," known best for pushing obviously forged documents weeks prior to the 2004 election in order to harm Republican President George W. Bush, took the approach of claiming that Florida's vaccine distribution has been uniquely "Chaotic" and the result of some ill-defined "Pay to play" conspiracy theory developed by its reporter Sharyn Alfonsi.
One part of it is that DeSantis was only prioritizing vaccination for seniors, not because they are the group far and away the most vulnerable to getting seriously sick, hospitalized, or dying from COVID, but because Florida seniors are more likely to be wealthy and white than the rest of the population, or because they're more likely to vote for him.
Prior to setting up that pod, Florida set up 51 separate vaccination events in coordination with religious groups in underserved communities, and 16 vaccination events at senior centers.
At the time the pod was set up, only 27 percent of seniors in the county had received the vaccine, the fifth-lowest rate of Florida's 67 counties.
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