![]() ![]() PolitiFact rated that Pants on Fire.Ĭlinical trials and real-world studies proved the vaccines are safe and effective at protecting against infections and severe symptoms. “Maybe (the COVID-19 vaccine) doesn’t work, and they’re simply not telling you that,” Carlson said in April, citing government advice to continue taking certain precautions. “The COVID-19 vaccines do not work.” FACT: They do. Here are 10 persistent falsehoods we have seen, and our related fact checks. On Fox News, for example, recent calls by some hosts to get vaccinated came against the backdrop of months of skepticism and misleading claims from the likes of Tucker Carlson. People who get their news from conservative media are more likely to believe misinformation about the vaccines, according to a recent survey from the University of Pennsylvania. False claims are frequently boosted by politicians and pundits, too. Hundreds of anti-vaccine groups remain active on Facebook, and one watchdog group found that 12 online influencers were behind 65% of the anti-vaccine misinformation on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. “Every adult can get it, so of course every adult is in the potential audience for misinformation,” said John Gregory, deputy health editor at NewsGuard, a firm tracking online misinformation. sees a rise in cases among unvaccinated populations, the unsupported claims keep coming.įalse narratives that the vaccines are mandatory and that they result in widespread death more than doubled across social media, broadcast and traditional media, and online sites over the past three months, according to Zignal Labs Inc., a media intelligence firm. Since the coronavirus pandemic erupted last year, PolitiFact has fact-checked hundreds of misleading statements about the development, deployment, content, safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
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