“If the [COVID-19] vaccine works — and they assure us adamantly that it does work and they punish us if we question how well it works — then how can the unvaccinated possibly pose a threat to the vaccinated?”
What FactCheck.org found
Vaccines are not 100% effective, so there is a chance that an unvaccinated person could infect a vaccinated person -- particularly the vulnerable, such as elderly and immunocompromised individuals.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 13 September 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 September 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “We Explain How”.
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
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-blasts-bidens-irrational-demands-on-vaccine-man…
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