Brianna Keilar Names And Shames Evangelical Pastors Who Spread COVID-19 Misinformation

CNN's "New Day" anchor rolled the tape on a reason for increased vaccine hesitancy among white evangelicals.

CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Monday explained increased hesitancy about the COVID-19 vaccine among white evangelicals with footage of prominent pastors downplaying the pandemic. White evangelicals “are most skeptical about taking the vaccine,” noted Keilar, with almost half saying they definitely or likely won’t receive the jab. Keilar recalled many high-profile pastors — including Guillermo Maldonado, Jesse Duplantis, Paul Daugherty and Kenneth Copeland — dismissing or spreading misinformation about the contagion during the early weeks of the global public health crisis.