And as more older people get vaccinated in the US, researchers have noticed that the demographics of the disease are starting to shift. Some might suffer long-term chronic symptoms after contracting the disease. While older people are at a higher risk of contracting the most severe forms of the disease, healthy 21-year-olds can and do get COVID-19.
His recent recommendations on vaccines aren’t based in science. Episodes of the show have mysteriously disappeared, and Spotify employees have voiced their dissatisfaction at their employer paying Rogan and keeping his show live. Spotify brought The Joe Rogan Experience exclusively to its platform last year, and since then, he’s courted multiple controversies, particularly around remarks that have been criticized as transphobic. The company declined to comment for this article.Ī source close to the situation says Rogan didn’t make a direct call to action When content that violates this standard is identified it is removed from the platform.”
In January, Spotify removed Pete Evans’ podcast over COVID-19 misinformation.Īt the time, Spotify issued a statement saying: “Spotify prohibits content on the platform which promotes dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19 that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health. Musician Ian Brown also had a song taken down in March in which he said the vaccines inserted microchips into people.
One show that was pulled said vaccines kill, they say, while another said vaccines cause skin conditions. He also doesn’t make a call to action, this source says, noting that the company has taken down other, explicitly anti-vaccine podcasts and music. But then he adds: “But if you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ I’ll go no.” The remarks were highlighted by Media Matters, which published a transcript of Rogan’s April 23rd conversation with fellow comedian Dave Smith.Ī source close to the situation says Spotify reviewed this Rogan episode and left it live because he doesn’t come off as outwardly anti-vaccine. Rogan said he believes “for the most part it’s safe to get vaccinated” and that his parents are vaccinated. In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s most popular podcaster suggests that healthy young people don’t need the COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to the advice of health professionals trying to stem a pandemic that’s killed more than 3 million people.