Instead of appearing at a White House briefing alongside then-President Donald Trump in March 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci decided to take part in a livestream with Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg to address COVID-19 concerns.
More than a year later, a 30-second portion of the interview has resurfaced on social media, touted by vaccine skeptics who are passing off the video as recent and using it to make inaccurate claims about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
“Dr. Fauci opens up the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could be making people more likely to be infected by the virus,” reads the text accompanying a video that was shared to Twitter on Dec. 13 and accumulated more than a million views within two days.
The widely shared clip shows the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases saying, “This would not be the first time, if it happened, that a vaccine that looked good in initial safety actually made people worse.” Fauci goes on to reference the development of vaccines for the respiratory syncytial virus and HIV.
A screen recording of the tweet was shared to Instagram on Dec. 14 in a post that accumulated more than 11,000 likes within a day. The site Trending Politics also published a story headlined, "Dr. Fauci Admits That Covid Vaccines May Actually Make People ‘Worse’: 'It Would Not Be The First Time.'"
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