"Shaggy" Kochie trolled by anti-vaxxers after positive Covid test
Sunrise host David Koch has been targeted by anti-vax trolls online after returning a positive Covid-19 test.
Kochie said he woke up on Sunday morning feeling "shaggy", just one day after returning a negative Covid test in order to host the star-studded Australia Unites telethon on Saturday.
Since contracting the virus, Kochie - who is triple vaccinated - has been isolating at home.
Despite doing all the right things in line with health advice, Kochie said he has been targeted online by anti-vaxxers since testing positive.
“It has not stopped my anti vaxx friends, trolls on social media getting stuck into me going, ‘so much for vaccines, Kochie has got it’,” he told Sydney Confidential.
The Sunrise presenter has been targeted multiple times online for discussing vaccines on the air, but he says they won't get him down while he recovers.
“I try and only deal in facts and data and there is some great data coming out now, particularly out of the UK and the US that just puts it beyond any doubt that vaccination is critical in all of this,” he said.
“I say to people, if our grandparents took your view now, we would still have polio or measles that could still be affecting our kids."
“You take the best advice because you are not just helping you and your kids, you are actually helping generations.”
Kochie shared a health update earlier in the week, along with everything he was using to keep his symptoms under control.
“Benefits of being sick and married to a nurse,” Kochie wrote on Instagram, alongside the image which showed his remedies of “lemon ginger tea, olive extract, Armaforce, ultra potent Vitamin C”.
Image credits: Sunrise / Instagram