Fox's Jesse Watters attacks Make-A-Wish Foundation over a lie about their vaccine requirements

Kat Timpf: “Make-A-Wish Foundation is now 'kill a dream' foundation”

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From the June 28, 2021, edition of Fox News' Primetime

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Terminally ill Make-A-Wish children are no longer allowed to make wishes unless they're vaxxed. Make-A-Wish CEO is barring unvaccinated kids from making any request that involves flights or large groups, yet covid-19 vaccines are still unavailable to children under the age of 12. This just seems mean, Kat.

KAT TIMPF (GUEST): Make-A-Wish Foundation is now killed the dream foundation. I don't understand because over and over again we see this, it doesn't really spread among kids normally and obviously these are kids in horrible situations, that's what Make-A-Wish foundation is supposed to be about and to say 'Oh but only if you're vaccinated' when really you can't get vaccinated, why are you messing with these kids heads, don't make it worse? 

According to the Associated Press, Make-A-Wish has disputed these claims and said all kids are eligible: 

“The Make-A-Wish Foundation is disputing what it calls a “misinformation” campaign about whether children who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 will be eligible to have their wishes granted.  The foundation says these children are in fact still eligible.”