Tucker Carlson is stunned as doctor makes bombshell claim about Covid vaccines | 3 April 2025 | TV personality Tucker Carlson was left stunned during an episode of his podcast, The Tucker Carlson Show, when presented with a sobering figure about deaths following Covid vaccination. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a staunch opponent of vaccine mandates who was suspended and then resigned from Houston Methodist Hospital over Covid vaccine misinformation in 2021, said there have been "38,000 deaths from these COVID shots." The death count was gleaned from CDC VAERS, a voluntary adverse affect reporting database that allows anyone to submit their side effects following vaccination, and where families and doctors can report patients who have died. Dr. Bowden said the FDA should have removed the vaccines from the market but instead expanded their use to other age groups, including infants, adding the shots for children under 12 have not been fully approved by the FDA as they have for other age groups, but rather maintain their Emergency Use Authorization status, which still means they have been deemed safe and effective. Still, Carlson was shocked: "This is going on right now? I think we voted against this. You're very diplomatic, but I'm just stunned to learn that that's happening right now."