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Reuters fact-checks those saying Pfizer 'admitted' it didn't test the COVID vaccine for transmission

Here’s the tweet Reuters has picked out to fact-check claims about Pfizer and the COVID-19 vaccine:

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Reuters seems to be hung up on the word “admitted,” which is why they put it in quotation marks in their tweet. As the tweet clearly says, Pfizer wasn’t required to test the COVID vaccine to see if it reduced transmission, nor is it something they claim to have done.

Didn’t the president say at a CNN town hall that if you got the vaccine, you weren’t going to get COVID? Where’s his fact-check?

Reuters Fact Check concludes:

Misleading. Social media posts claiming that a Pfizer executive “admitted” the company did not test its COVID vaccine’s ability to prevent virus transmission before receiving marketing approval imply that the company had been required to do so or claimed to have done so, which is false. National policies requiring vaccination to access public spaces or to enter a country that were implemented in early 2021 may have been based in part on data emerging at that time showing the vaccine did, in fact, prevent transmission of the variants then circulating.

So it’s not “false,” it’s “misleading,” in that the posts “imply” Pfizer was required to test the vaccine’s ability to prevent transmission.

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Pfizer wasn’t required to test whether its vaccine reduced transmission prior to rolling it out, so it’s misleading to imply that they did.

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