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New York (tca\/dpa) – A conservative Florida radio host who was dead-set against taking a coronavirus vaccine is now dead.<\/p>\nNew York (tca\/dpa) – A conservative Florida radio host who was dead-set against taking a coronavirus vaccine is now dead.<\/p>\n
Marc Bernier died Saturday of Covid-19 after a three-week battle, his bereft radio station announced.<\/p>\n
He was 65.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness that WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announce the passing of Marc Bernier, who informed and entertained listeners on WNDB for over 30 years,\u201d WNDB radio\u2019s News Daytona Beach announced Saturday. \u201cWe kindly ask that privacy is given to Marc\u2019s family during this time of grief.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernier had been afflicted three weeks earlier after hosting radio talk shows in Daytona Beach for 30 years, and after dubbing himself \u201cMr. Anti-Vax.\u201d He also said the US government was \u201cacting like Nazis\u201d for insisting people get the shot.<\/p>\n
That airtime included a morning comment, three-hour afternoon show, and weekend shows and specials. Longtime radio show guest and Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood was gutted after learning that the host had died sometime after 6 pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m numb,\u201d Chitwood told The Daytona Beach News-Journal. \u201cTo me, this is a death in the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernier\u2019s death was the third this month among conservative talk show hosts outspoken against the coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n
He was preceded eight days earlier by Phil Valentine, a 61-year-old conservative talk radio host in Tennessee who mocked coronavirus vaccines but changed his tone after getting sick. He battled the disease for a month.<\/p>\n
Also having a change of heart, before his stopped, was Dick Farrel, a former Newsmax commentator and all-around coronavirus-denying, vaccine-resistant right-wing radio talk show host.<\/p>\n
The South Florida radio host died of Covid-19 complications on August 6, at age 65, after exhorting fans not to get the vaccine, calling the entire coronavirus crisis a \u201cscam-demic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Farrel and Valentine urged friends and followers to get the vaccine as the disease closed in on them and said they regretted not doing it themselves.<\/p>\n
Bernier, speaking to a guest about a week after the Pfizer jab was approved for emergency use in December, was adamantly against it, though it wasn\u2019t clear how he felt at the end.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you kidding me? Mr. Anti-Vax? Jeepers,\u201d Bernier said in answer to the question of whether he would take the shot. \u201cI\u2019m not taking it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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