Right-wing radio host Dick Farrell, who famously called COVID-19 a “scam-demic,” died in August of the disease. Dickinson, Texas, city councilman and Texas state Republican Executive Committee member H. Scott Apley died in August just days after posting a Facebook meme questioning the vaccine. In July COVID vaccine skeptic Stephen Harmon, a member of the Hillsong megachurch in California, died of the virus after joking that he had “99 problems but a vax ain’t one.”