Noted anti-vaxxer Zachary Levi‘s new conspiracy theory has further alienated his friends and fans in the Broadway community.
Following Gavin Creel‘s death at age 48 last month, Levi implied in a bizarre pro-Trump rant on Instagram Live that the Tony-winning actor died because of the COVID vaccine, drawing ire from those Creel’s fans and loved ones. “I know that this is going to offend some people and make some people mad, and I wish it didn’t,” prefaced Levi. “So, a few weeks ago, my friend Gavin Creel died.
He was 48 years old, and he was one of the healthiest people I knew.” Although Creel died of a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma, which Levi called a “turbo cancer” that “came out of nowhere” before he speculated, “You better believe that, with everything in me, I believe that if these COVID vaccinations were not forced on the American public, that the theaters weren’t being pushed and leveraged —” Levi paused before explaining that the theater owners and producers weren’t to blame, but he holds “people at the top” responsible. & family, to science, tomedicine, to all of the people struggling w/ diseases including cancer past & present, to all of the people grieving Gavin's loss, or others grieving losses from all of the people who died from Covid before that vaccine was available??! ..
The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute have both denounced theories that the COVID vaccine causes cancer.
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