A Jan. 15 article from the serial misinformation website News Punch says the World Economic Forum was placing restrictions on travel to and from its conference in Switzerland.
“WEF bans vaccinated pilots to fly their members in and out of Davos,” the article says.
The article goes on to claim that people vaccinated against COVID-19 are more likely to have sudden cardiac episodes and collapse.
The post was shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook in six days, according to CrowdTangle, a social media analytics tool.
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The World Economic Forum said it did not place vaccine-related restrictions on pilots. The claim comes from a site USA TODAY has repeatedly flagged for spreading misinformation.
The World Economic Forum held its first in-person winter annual meeting since 2020 this month, bringing world economic leaders together in Davos, Switzerland.
A spokesperson for the World Economic Forum said the claim that pilots vaccinated against COVID-19 were not allowed to fly in and out of Davos is “incorrect.”
The News Punch article sources the claim to a secondhand account of comments by Josh Yoder, president of U.S. Freedom Flyers, a group against vaccine mandates.
Yoder, however, tweeted on Jan. 15 he never said that.
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