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Spotify’s Joe Rogan says ‘healthy’ young people don’t need to worry about getting COVID-19 vaccine

Spotify podcast host Joe Rogan said last week that “healthy” young people don’t need to worry about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, countering health experts’ recommendations.

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April 27, 2021
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Spotify’s Joe Rogan says ‘healthy’ young people don’t need to worry about getting COVID-19 vaccine

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Spotify podcast host Joe Rogan said last week that “healthy” young people don’t need to worry about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, countering health experts’ recommendations.

On his show “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the podcast host urged people to get vaccinated “if you’re vulnerable” saying he thinks “for the most part it’s safe.” But Rogan said if a 21-year-old asks him if they should get the vaccine, “I’ll go, ‘No.’”

“Are you healthy?” he said in his April 23 podcast. “Are you a healthy person? Like, look, don’t do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself. You should – if you’re a healthy person, and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well, like, I don’t think you need to worry about this.”

Spotify’s Joe Rogan encourages “healthy” young people not to get a coronavirus vaccine. His show is Spotify’s most popular podcast.

“If you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I’ll go no.” pic.twitter.com/5dX98xUaHS

— Alex Paterson (@AlexPattyy) April 27, 2021

Rogan’s advice directly contradicts health experts, who have called on all people above age 16 to get the vaccine in order to curb the spread of the virus across the U.S., especially among vulnerable populations.

So far, almost 140 million American adults have gotten at least one shot, amounting to 54 percent of the population. More than 96 million, or 37 percent of adults, are fully vaccinated, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

But public health officials have said the U.S. needs to reach more than 70 percent to get to a point where the population is considered immune to the virus that has disrupted American life for more than a year.

Rogan’s remarks come as the U.S. faces a tipping point in its vaccination effort between enthusiastic Americans who have already gotten the jab versus those who are more hesitant or don’t have access to the shot.

The host, whose podcast has been among the most popular on Spotify, said that parents are worried about potential requirements for children to get vaccinated, arguing that COVID-19 is not “statistically dangerous for children.”

“I can tell you as someone who has — both my children got the virus. It was nothing,” he said. “I mean, I hate to say that if someone’s children died from this. I’m very sorry that that happened. I’m not in any way diminishing that. But I’m saying the personal experience that my children had with COVID was nothing.”

“It’s amazing that that’s controversial – that even saying that, I’m not going to inject my child with the vaccine, is controversial,” he added later.

“We’re talking about something that is not statistically dangerous for children,” Rogan said. “But yet people still want you to get your child vaccinated, which is crazy to me.”

There are no current mandates for children to get the vaccine as the U.S.’s Food and Drug Administration has only given emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those 16 and older and to the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines for those 18 and older.

Some of the vaccine manufacturers have started or conducted vaccine trials to ensure the safety for infants and teenagers, with the goal of getting the vaccine approved for younger Americans.

While young people have lower death rates than older adults, more young people have been hospitalized recently as variants spread across the U.S., according to CNN. The CDC documents that more than 400 children have died from the virus.

Media Matters for America first reported Rogan’s comments on Tuesday.

Spotify did not immediately return The Hill’s request for comment. The company previously defended Rogan last year for hosting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his podcast, saying ”It’s important to have diverse voices and points of view on our platform.”

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) also faced backlash last week for questioning the “big push” to vaccinate “everybody,” saying the government “probably should have limited the distribution” to vulnerable populations.

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci countered Johnson’s remarks, saying “there’s a pretty good reason” for the federal government’s push in that “we are dealing with an emergency.”

This article was originally published by the Hill. Read the original article.

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