Here’s the tweet Reuters has picked out to fact-check claims about Pfizer and the COVID-19 vaccine:
Pfizer director admits ‘vaccine’ wasn’t tested for transmissibility.
Pfizer ‘vaccine’ wasn’t intended to prevent transmission.
Politicians and MSM spread misinformation.
Vaccine mandates/passports were immoral, unscientific, and should’ve been illegal.pic.twitter.com/uJBUQGN208
— Fr Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) October 11, 2022
Reuters seems to be hung up on the word “admitted,” which is why they put it in quotation marks in their tweet. As the tweet clearly says, Pfizer wasn’t required to test the COVID vaccine to see if it reduced transmission, nor is it something they claim to have done.
Didn’t the president say at a CNN town hall that if you got the vaccine, you weren’t going to get COVID? Where’s his fact-check?
Posts online are saying Pfizer "admitted" that the company did not test whether their COVID-19 vaccine reduced transmission prior to rolling it out – something they were not required to do, nor claimed to have done https://t.co/Wiw4N9qFC2 pic.twitter.com/oJIR5fJ2rS
— Reuters Fact Check (@ReutersFacts) October 14, 2022
Reuters Fact Check concludes:
Misleading. Social media posts claiming that a Pfizer executive “admitted” the company did not test its COVID vaccine’s ability to prevent virus transmission before receiving marketing approval imply that the company had been required to do so or claimed to have done so, which is false. National policies requiring vaccination to access public spaces or to enter a country that were implemented in early 2021 may have been based in part on data emerging at that time showing the vaccine did, in fact, prevent transmission of the variants then circulating.
So it’s not “false,” it’s “misleading,” in that the posts “imply” Pfizer was required to test the vaccine’s ability to prevent transmission.
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You know what they did claim? That the vaccine would stop transmission. And as you just admitted, they made that claim without even testing whether the vaccine prevented transmission. That's fraud. And so is this bullshit fact-check intended to stop the spread of criticism. https://t.co/trTa24lDaU
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 15, 2022
I got put in fakebook jail for the same fact check when I posted the story.
— Carol RN *Miss Rush & the Gipper* 👩⚕️🌺🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@pasqueflower19) October 15, 2022
But the real kicker is that the government made that claim FOR them, so they won't be held accountable.
— DarthReverend (@ReverendDarth) October 16, 2022
Hits a little different when you're watching them try to change history in realtime.
— Vanessa Harris – technologypoet.btc (@technologypoet) October 15, 2022
Pisses me off! Another “conspiracy theory” proven true.
— Not Creepy Joe (@joe_colosimo) October 17, 2022
So then what were they using it for? I'm confused.
— Super Dave (@SUPERDA64060889) October 16, 2022
I wonder if the lack of testing might negate the fact that the pharmas were all protected from lawsuits? If their claims were fraudulent and they didn't test, people should be able to sue.
— Karen LeValley (@KarenLevalley) October 15, 2022
Then they should have come out and said this when the authoritarians started spewing this lie and ruining peoples lives with mandates.
— vampymommy (@vampymommy) October 16, 2022
Most of us knew better the whole time. We get a gold ⭐️ for that.
— SRG (@Gregmil25116323) October 15, 2022
Point proven again: Just let the irrational, illogical defenders talk and they will, in a very short term, contradict & expose themselves
— Free Mind Thinkers (@bigbrotucker) October 15, 2022
Here comes the clean up crew to wipe up any traces of truth that may have slipped out. So predictable…
— Vic (@vnorian) October 14, 2022
This message brought to you by Pfizer.
— James (@the_jame) October 15, 2022
You you write for a living and you don't know when to use scare quotes?
Pfizer did, in fact, make that admission; there's no need for scare quotes.
You can editorialize if you wish (that's also unprofessional) but at least it's not grammatically incorrect
— COOP NUK3M (@JUST_COOP3R) October 16, 2022
Posts aren't online saying it, the Pfizer representative to the Danish Parliament said it.
— FHP{Jr} (@fparker77) October 16, 2022
Save for all the Libs, DEMS, Fauci & the media saying “we never said that vaccinations would stop transmission!” https://t.co/WDL98pAgB8
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) October 17, 2022
Well that's interesting.
In the absence of "the science" what were draconian measures such as social distancing, vaccine passports, lock downs & medical apartheid based on then?
— Jay Lee Beaner (@jay_beaner) October 15, 2022
Just stop.
— Rena (@CRichardsob) October 14, 2022
Pfizer wasn’t required to test whether its vaccine reduced transmission prior to rolling it out, so it’s misleading to imply that they did.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 13, 2022
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