An article from Real Raw News, a self-described “independent publisher” that “explores content often avoided by the mainstream media,” claims: “CDC Pushes for Hybrid ‘CovidPox’ Vaccine.” The article claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is “pushing forth a new agenda that could sicken or kill even more millions of gullible Americans—she has advocated for the creation of a ‘CovidPox’ vaccine, a hybrid drug that, she says, will inoculate citizens against both emerging strains of Covid and Monkeypox.”

The article further says that “CDC whistleblowers have told Real Raw News that Walensky, ostensibly at the request of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, has in recent days held talks with Pfizer and Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Bavarian Nordic A/S. She had asked them whether they could jointly research the viability of an amalgamized vaccine because ‘Americans aren’t smart. They like fewer rather than more vaccines.’”

These are false claims.

In an email to The Dispatch Fact Check, Jason McDonald, a spokesman for Walensky, said: “The premise of this story is preposterous.” McDonald also addressed the alleged meeting between “Pfizer and Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Bavarian Nordic A/S,” saying that “no such meeting ever occurred.”

The preferred vaccine against monkeypox, according to the CDC, is JYNNEOS, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is made by Bavarian Nordic. On August 9, 2022, the FDA issued an...

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