Claim: Dr. Micheal Yeadon, supposedly the former Vice President and Chief Scientist of Pfizer, made comments that the Covid-19 vaccine is unnecessary.
Fact Check Rating: FALSE. The doctor’s claims are unsupported by science and his credentials are given incorrectly.
I covered Dr. Micheal Yeadon in a previous post which debunked claims he made about dangers of the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer (see that Fact Check here: https://bit.ly/3kN8BoB). Yeadon is commonly cited as a high-level Pfizer scientist, but this is highly misleading because Yeadon left the company in 2011 and worked in a department for allergy science, not infectious diseases. None of the work done at Pfizer to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 was done with his involvement.
Furthermore, Yeadon’s claims about the lack of need for vaccinations for Covid are completely false and not supported by any mainstream medical providers or organizations anywhere in the world. Covid-19 is so dangerous precisely because humans lack immunity to the virus, in total contrast to Yeadon. Far from being unnecessary, it is essential that a critical mass of people around the world be vaccinated in order for herd immunity to be achieved.
Dr. Yeadon’s further implication that the vaccines available for Covid-19 are unsafe because they haven’t been sufficiently tested on humans are also unfounded. In the United States, all Covid vaccines have gone through an extremely rigorous four-phase process of testing before being approved for use. Internationally, the process is similar and equally thorough. No serious side effects or risks were found, and continued monitoring of patients is core to vaccine distribution.
Sources:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid-vaccine-female-sterilization/
https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immunity-with-covid19.html
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