D.C.’s FOX 5 News anchor Blake McCoy, who’s gay, has been suspended from his job following a flurry of complaints over a comment he posted on Twitter on Feb.
23 saying he is “annoyed” that obese people of all ages are on the priority list for obtaining the COVID vaccine. “He has been suspended pending further review,” Erica Keane, a spokesperson for D.C.
TV station WTTG, of which FOX 5 News is a part, told the Washington Blade on Wednesday. Keane said the suspension was related to McCoy’s Twitter post about obese people and the COVID vaccine.
But she said the station would have no further comment at this time. “I’m annoyed obese people of all ages get priority vaccine access before all essential workers,” McCoy stated in his post at