Chinese social media users have shared a screenshot of a year-old article from a US conspiracy site that falsely claims the Supreme Court ruled "the Covid pathogen is not a vaccine and is unsafe" and has cancelled "universal vax". As of March 13, 2023, AFP has found no similar or related cases in the US Supreme Court docket. The United States has not made Covid-19 vaccination mandatory at a federal level for all people. The Covid-19 vaccines available in the US do not contain live viruses and are safe, experts say.

"Breaking: The US Supreme Court has ruled that Covid pathogens are not vaccines, are unsafe, and must be avoided at all costs -- the Supreme Court cancelled universal vaccine!" reads a Twitter post on February 17, 2023 written in simplified Chinese characters.

"Big pharma and Anthony Fauci have lost a suit brought against them by Robert F Kennedy and a group of scientists!" the tweet continues, referring to the former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Fauci and Robert F Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer with an anti-vaccination stance.

The post includes a screenshot of an English-language article with the same claim and the same Chinese text across the bottom of the image.

AFP previously debunked the claim that "Fauci and big pharma had lost a suit" brought by Kennedy here in April 2021.

The claim stems from a Freedom of Information lawsuit brought by the Anti-Vaccine Informed Consent Action Network against the US...

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