“The Biden administration plan would kill 5,248 children via Pfizer mRNA shots in order to save 45 children from dying of coronavirus.”
What FactCheck.org found
Rogers' figures rely on distorting VAERS reports and using a problematic concept known as the number needed to vaccinate, which is used to assess benefit of vaccines.
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In short
Toby Rogers (Author) made this claim around 31 October 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 November 2021, 24 days later. Its rating was “Unsupported”.
Toby Rogers has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20211122171910/https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/what-is-the-…
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