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“COVID-19 vaccines "provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy.”
Robert Malone Doctor. Instagram. Claim dated 3 Jan 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

What PolitiFact found

Younger people face less of a health threat from COVID-19, but vaccines reduce their chances of developing serious disease from the virus. Heart inflammation linked to coronavirus vaccination is rare.

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In short

Robert Malone (Doctor) made this claim around 3 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 January 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Robert Malone has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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