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In August 2021, multiple news outlets reported that the right-wing radio host and COVID-19 skeptic Dick Farrel had himself died of complications relating to COVID-19. For example, on Aug. 7, the Daily Beast published an article with the headline Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Called Fauci a ‘Power Tripping Lying Freak’ Dies of COVID. That story stated that: Farrel, whose legal name was Farrel Austin Levitt, did indeed die on Aug. 4, 2021, according to an obituary posted on the website of Beth Israel Memorial Chapel in Boynton Beach, Florida. He was 65 years old. On one of his Facebook accounts, the former WDBF and WFLN talk radio host did repeatedly articulate skepticism about the COVID-19 pandemic, including referring to it as a scam demic and plannedemic, and fervently opposed face masks and vaccines, which he once described as bogus bull shid. It is also true that Farrel died of complications from COVID-19. On Facebook, his partner, Kit Farley, wrote: Farrel and Farley's friend Amy Leigh Hair paid tribute to Farrel, who occasionally stood in as a host on right-wing TV network Newsmax, saying he had changed his mind about COVID-19 vaccination shortly before his death, and expressed regret that he had failed to get vaccinated. She wrote:
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