“A vaccine is an antibody produced by the body to fight infection.”
What Vera Files found
A vaccine is a product that contains a “killed” or “weakened” version, or parts of a pathogen. This is then used to train a person’s immune system to produce antibodies so that he or she develops immunity without having to get the disease first.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 7 July 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 July 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/talk-to-the-people-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duter…
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.