Vivek Ramaswamy Can’t Hide From Comments Advocating for “Segregation” Based on COVID Immunity Status

Vivek Ramaswamy Can't Hide From Comments Advocating for "Segregation" Based on COVID Immunity Status

May 18, 2026

Ramaswamy: "Could we tolerate a national system in which certain people on the basis of a biomarker are segregated to say you can't go back to a normal life?"

Columbus, Ohio- Over the weekend, Vivek Ramaswamy continued to face scrutiny from his extreme, toxic calls to segregate Americans based on COVID immunity status. NBC4's Colleen Marshall shined a spotlight on Ramaswamy's comments.

Reporting from the Associated Press first revealed Ramaswamy wanted to "segregate" Americans based on biomarkers and made over $2 billion in profit from the COVID-19 vaccine.

Then, unearthed audio reported by NBC4 further showed how Ramaswamy contradicted his own comments on the campaign trail after attacking Dr. Amy Acton on her role as Ohio Department of Health director.

"At every turn, Ohioans are seeing more evidence everything Vivek Ramaswamy does is a lie or scam to make money for himself while working families are left behind," said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. "Ohioans can't trust Vivek Ramaswamy."

See highlights below and watch the clip here:

• In 2020, he was talking about stay-at-home mandates and required testing. Critics say that sounds a lot like what Governor DeWine and Doctor Acton were doing back then, the very thing that many Republicans now call government overreach and an infringement on individual freedoms.

• Ramaswamy's company made more than $2 billion dollars on vaccines and he even supported government mandated testing to find out the rate of immunity.

• The scientific distinctions that Ramaswamy is talking about would have required mandatory testing, then a government registry of your antibody status to keep track of who was safe to resume normal life and segregation for those who did not have immunity.

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