“Germany’s Ministry of Health found that 1 in 5,000 Germans have suffered ‘serious side effects after a COVID-19 vaccine.”
What FactCheck.org found
The figures, which pertain to doses not people, come from the country’s Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, which publishes periodic reports on suspected side effects “regardless of the causal link to the vaccination."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 21 July 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 August 2022, 13 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.ph/Rlbom#selection-2115.0-2115.328
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