“Wearing face mask and face shield provides the same protection from COVID-19 as getting inoculated with the vaccine.”
What Vera Files found
One “cannot equate” the protection from wearing face mask and face shield to that of getting COVID-19 vaccines, said physician Anthony Leachon, former special adviser to the National Task Force Against COVID-19. These protective gear do not provide “permanent protection” and “are not meant to produce antibodies to actually create an immune response,” unlike what one gets from approved COVID-19 vaccines, he explained.
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In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 24 June 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 6 June 2021. Its rating was “False”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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