FactCheck.org takes a critical look at some recent coronavirus vaccine-related news and commentary, including
Fox News talker Tucker Carlson's claims about vaccines and masking and the current pause in administering the
Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
"All of the authorized Covid-19 vaccines are effective at preventing symptomatic disease,"
report Eugene Kiely and Saranac Hale Spencer of FactCheck, a service of the communications school at the
University of Pennsylvania. "Carlson baselessly casts doubt on the effectiveness of the vaccines, because federal officials urge fully vaccinated people to wear masks in public settings In an April 14 segment of his show "Tucker Carlson Tonight," he repeatedly questioned why the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that vaccinated people continue to wear masks, insinuating that vaccinated people aren't really protected from future infections and that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has not or could not address this "most basic of all questions," as Carlson called them.
But Fauci has addressed this question. Vaccines can prevent people from becoming sickened with Covid-19, but it may not protect them from becoming infected with the virus that causes Covid-19. At a recent White House briefing, "Fauci
said vaccinated people are not expected to show any symptoms and science needs to conduct more research on whether asymptomatic vaccinated people can make other unvaccinated people sick," Kiely and Spencer report.
FactCheck also lays out the facts on the recommended pause in administering the
Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Out of 7.2 million doses of the vaccine administered in the U.S., six recipients have reportedly gotten a rare, severe type of blood clot. Out of an abundance of caution, the
Food and Drug Administration and the CDC recommended a pause in the use of the J&J vaccine while more research was done, Kiely and Catalina Jaramillo
report.
"All six cases involved women ages 18 to 48 and their symptoms — which included severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath — occurred six to 13 days after they received the J&J vaccine, the agencies said in a
joint statement. One died and one remains in critical condition," Kiely and Jaramillo report. "The recommended pause only involves the
Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which uses a different type of vaccine technology than the other two vaccines that have been authorized in the United States and administered in much greater numbers."
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