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US NFL player Cole Beasley leaned into the sharp backlash from statements he has made critical of the coronavirus vaccine on Friday, disclosing that he is not vaccinated and pledging to live my one life like I want to regardless".

I will be outside doing what I do," he wrote in a statement posted to social media.

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