“COVID-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans.”
What PolitiFact found
An anti-vaccine activist whose claims have been repeatedly debunked falsely stated that federal data shows that COVID-19 vaccines killed 676,000 people in the U.S.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Steve Kirsch (Anti-vaccine activist) made this claim around 8 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 August 2023, 14 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Steve Kirsch has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/AtIM8
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