“A video shows a nurse pretending to vaccinate actor Anthony Hopkins before squirting fluid in the syringe on the floor.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 9 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Anthony Hopkins got vaccinated. The nurse ejected excess liquid that often lingers in the syringe’s “dead space” between the plunger and needle after a medication or vaccine is administered.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 March 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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