“Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. health officials plotted “for a new avian flu virus to enforce universal flu vaccination.”
What PolitiFact found
The reference -- at a public event recorded by C-SPAN -- to a “universal” flu vaccine meant one that could provide long-lasting protection against multiple flu strains, eliminating the need for annual flu shots.
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In short
Gateway Pundit (Conservative website) made this claim around 6 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 October 2021, 9 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Gateway Pundit has 22 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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