“Pregnant women getting the Tdap vaccine “voluntarily are quite literally the experiment.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 13 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Researchers have studied thousands of pregnant women who got the Tdap vaccine, which aims to prevent tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, aka whooping cough.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 13 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 May 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CsMBQGgu6GE/
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