CLAIM: Video shows World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The clip is from a documentary that shows Ghebreyesus championing COVID-19 vaccines and saying, at one point, that he had waited for better global vaccine equity before receiving his own shot. He has publicly stated that he was vaccinated in May 2021, weeks before the interview took place.

THE FACTS: A video clip is circulating on social media with a false claim that it shows the WHO leader expressing that he had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

“Tedros not jabbed?” reads one tweet, which garnered more than 8,000 likes. “Well who’d have thought?”

Another tweet shared by thousands claimed: “So Tedros hasn’t had any Vx because he’s ‘protesting’.”

The 35-second clip shows a portion of a 2021 interview of Tedros by Jon Cohen, a writer for the publication Science. The interview was included in a documentary, “How to Survive a Pandemic,” which runs more than 100 minutes.

The clip shows Cohen asking Ghebreyesus when he was vaccinated, and then cuts to the WHO director-general responding: “You know, still I feel like I know where I belong: in a poor country called Ethiopia, in a poor continent called Africa, and wanted to wait until Africa and other countries, in other regions, low-income countries, start vaccination. So I was protesting, in other words, because we’re failing.”

But the documentary never claimed...

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