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Prayers for Nick is a campaign of mock well-wishes to Kansas City traffic reporter Nick Vasos who accidentally sent a mass email to his entire company about taking a sick day.

Origin

On November 21st, 2019, Nick Vasos sent an email to his entire company, the Nexstar Media Group. That day, fellow Nexstar employee Michael Stern tweeted, ^[1] "When a station sends an email to the all station list for Nexstar by accident… all of #NexstarNation chimes in! Get well soon
@NickVasos" (shown below).

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That day, Nexstar employee Austin Kellerman tweeted^[2] a series of emails responding to Vasos. He captioned the tweeted, "Nick out sick is my new favorite thing. #NexstarNation #NickStrong." Within 24 hours, the post received more than 2,200 likes and 280 retweets (shown below, left).

Throughout the day, other employees posted hyperbolic well wishes to Vasos on social media (shown below, center and right).

Anchor Grant Lodes tweeted a video of his inbox. The post received more than 200,000 views, 1,700 likes and 125 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

Never been more proud to manage my inbox #NickIsSick #GetWellSoon #NexstarNation #NexstarNick pic.twitter.com/AH3Gb24nsr

— Grant Lodes (@GrantLodes) November 22, 2019

Twitter^[3] user @Holtzue tweeted a message from Nexstar asking people to stop responding the breaking news list. They said, "Please refrain from replying all to any of the messages containing the New -- All Station Breaking News Alert group." The post received more than 1,700 likes and 100 retweets in less than two days (shown below, left).

That night, Vasos responded to the messages, writing^[4] "Attention #NexstarNation. Take it from me, when calling sick don’t email news@Nexstar.tv You’re welcome. #PrayersForNick Now time to rest. Good night." The tweet received more than 3,100 likes and 240 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

That day, Twitter^[5] publsihed a Moments page on the messages.

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