Peter Hotez PANICS After Heavily-Vaxxed Caller Reveals “Worst Experience Ever” Post-Booster
This is like watching a train wreck in real time.
Meet Dr. Peter Hotez.
He’s the “vaccine expert” who ran from a $2 million offer to debate RFK Jr.
Now it’s 2025, and a mom of two asked him if she should keep taking COVID boosters.
His answer? Pure insanity.
But that wasn’t even the worst part of the interview.
Dr. Peter Hotez recently had an uncomfortable moment during what started as a softball radio interview on Hello Houston.
Everything was going his way. The hosts hung on to his every word as if it were gospel.
Before the awkward moment, Celeste Diaz Schurman, a millennial mom of two, told Hotez she keeps getting bad cases of COVID despite taking three shots.
Hotez’s response? He essentially told Celeste those bad cases of COVID were HER FAULT for skipping the later COVID boosters.
CELESTE: “I’m getting COVID often. I took Paxlovid the third time, and then a few weeks later I got it again. COVID was really bad on me.”
HOTEZ: “After you had your first two immunizations way back in 2021, did you get boosters regularly?”
CELESTE: “I got one booster and then after that I stopped getting them.”
HOTEZ: “Yeah. So that’s the reason why you keep up with the boosters.”
But it gets worse. After scaring Celeste with talk of “long COVID,” Hotez told healthy listeners how to “skirt the rules” to keep getting more COVID boosters.
That convinced Celeste to say on air later that she was going straight to the pharmacy after speaking with Hotez.
CELESTE: “Now I’m petrified of long COVID. I am absolutely petrified of it.”
HOTEZ: “In my view, you should get the immunization. Now, the good news in this—if you look at that list that they put out in the New England Journal of Medicine—it’s a really long list, and it even says something like low physical activity. I certainly don’t want to give advice on how to skirt the rules, but it seems to me that if on Sunday afternoon, if you want to watch both the Cowboys and the Texans, that’s a long afternoon of not [moving to qualify for boosters].”
What happened next is one of the most shameless displays of gaslighting you’ll ever witness.
A caller named Carol, who says she keeps up with her boosters, asked Hotez over the phone why she suffered the “worst experience [she] ever had” just two days after her last COVID shot.
It was one of those moments where you want to yell at the screen but know it won’t help.
Carol described how she was so exhausted she was sleeping 16 hours a day, and had a “really bad cough with deep phlegm.”
At first, Hotez assumed she’d had a severe case of COVID. But to his shock, Carol told him she had NEVER had COVID.
Hotez scrambled for an explanation:
“Now, one possibility is, unfortunately, that it can take a couple of weeks for the booster to kick in. So, what possibly could have happened is in between the time you got the booster and the immune response kicks in, you could have gotten some intercurrent viral infection, such as Covid or flu or a gazillion other things. So sometimes it’s hard to know what’s ascribed to a SIDE EFFECT of the vaccine versus some other intercurrent illness.”
Notice that in the last line, Hotez says the quiet part out loud: “side effect.”
He realizes: “Oh, sh*t, this could be a vaccine-injured person.”
But instead of acknowledging that possibility, he spins an explanation to confuse her into thinking the symptoms could have come from something else—just two days after the shot.
Just watch the clip. It’s never the jab with these people.
The full conversation is available here. Listening to it feels like stepping back into 2021 all over again.
Hotez’s how the conversation went in a nutshell:
• Hotez told listeners to get their COVID shots and “skirt the rules” to get them if they aren’t eligible.
• If you get a bad case of COVID, but you didn’t get your latest booster, it’s your fault.
• And if your health suffers just two days after the shot, it was probably something else, not the jab.
Thanks for reading. I know watching all that was not easy to get through.
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