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How a Yale Study Got Twisted Into an Anti-Vaccine Talking Point
Despite what anti-vaxxers say, new research doesn’t prove Covid shots debilitated millions of Americans.
Still credited with saving millions of lives.
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Last week, a blogger wrote about a Yale School of Medicine study that he alleged proved that millions of long Covid sufferers might, in fact been injured by the vaccine. The story blew up on social media among anti-vaxxers and was posted to X by Elon Musk.
The problem is that they were wrong. Shortly after Musk’s post went up, Akiko Iwasaki, the immunologist who headed the study, jumped into Musk’s comments to say, “No. This is not what our study shows.”