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Who believes COVID vaccines do more harm than good?
The claim: COVID vaccines do more harm than good, or are designed to harm. Counts as saying it's true: Says or endorses that the vaccines are net harmful, poison, or deliberately dangerous. Counts as saying it's false: Says the vaccines are safe and effective overall.
Says it's true (9)
- Nick Fuentes: “I would rather get covid than get the covid vaccine” (2020-12-18, source)
- Andrew Tate: “they changed the definition of vaccine in the dictionary so they can continue to inject us with this pointless poison” (2023-11-24, source)
- Alex Jones: “🚨 ALERT: The mRNA Vaccines Contained A Secret Weapon of Mass Depopulation For Globalists To Trigger At Will - Top Scientists Warn” (2024-09-07, source)
- Ian Carroll: “The COVID vaccine killed and sickened more than it saved or protected.” (2024-06-03, source)
- Jack Posobiec: “The Spike Protein produced inside the body from the shot is more toxic than the protein produced from a bout with Covid. They knew and lied about it.” (2026-03-10, source)
- Jimmy Dore: “Ironically, Most people are immune to accurate information about the dangers of vaccines & the fact they've never been tested against placebos, and the tests they used have been rigged, just like all things Covid were lies including the clinical trials for the vaxx.” (2026-05-19, source)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene: “COVID-19 vaccines should have never received approval and they've known the entire time how bad the side effects are and deaths caused by them. It's time to do the right thing. Stop the COVID-19 vaccines” (2025-03-21, source)
- Michael Flynn: “"The SPIKE PROTEIN EXPOSURE" is real and the "odds are not in your favor" if you took the COVID VAX.” (2025-07-12, source)
- Laura Loomer: “I believe when a few years pass, we will see that the vaccines will have killed more people than COVID,” (2021-09-17, source)
Hints it's true (4)
- Joe Rogan: “That's why you never hear anything in all the news about vaccine injuries. You never never hear about all these people that are having strokes, all these people that the rise in heart attacks, the rise in myocarditis, particularly amongst young people, blood clots.” (2026-01-29, source)
- Russell Brand: “And all those questions that one might sort of ponder chewing a pencil on your own, it turns out, were unanswerable because we were being dreadfully deceived. Dreadfully deceived.” (2026-04-17, source)
- Candace Owens: “I'm principally now opposed to [the vaccine], and I do not understand why anybody who is healthy, able-bodied, and young, would ever get this vaccine if you're not at risk of COVID.” (2022-01-05, source)
- Tucker Carlson: “A report submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 concluded that ‘fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported by the VAERS system,'” he said. “Fewer than 1%. So what is the real number of people who apparently have been killed or injured by the v…” (2021-05-05, source)
Unclear (5)
- JD Vance: “…that. And you don't even you know, everybody that I know or a lot of people I know, they talk about the second shot that they got of the vaccine was really made them really really sick. Well, that's a side effect and not a side effect that we even talk about enough in this…” (2026-04-06, source)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I wasn't aware he said it, but I I agree with it.” (2025-09-04, source)
- Theo Von: “wouldn't it be like oh well it's better if we have them battling these two diseases or instead of getting a vaccine early.” (2026-03-19, source)
- Dan Bongino: “Dr. Malone breaks down what's wrong with the COVID vaccine and what can be done once taken” (2023-02-06, source)
- Donald Trump Jr.: “Never forget: Joe Biden destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of troops serving our nation with his evil covid vaccine mandate on the military.” (2024-06-09, source)
Hints it's false (5)
- Bill Nye: “If everyone around you is vaccinated, indeed, there is less chance that a troublesome germ will infect you,” (2017-04-21, source)
- Mick West: “Even further along, they will say the vaccines are bad for you and it is being covered up by the government.” (2020-06-11, source)
- Jon Stewart: “How the f*** does a quarterback not understand the concept of protection? Prevention and protection!” (2021-11-06, source)
- Ben Shapiro: “I recommended the vaxx to the elderly and the obese to reduce death rates. I recommended the vaccine for people my age because we were lied to about reduction in transmissibility. That's why I took it personally. I never recommended it for the young. My kids are not vaxxed.” (2023-02-02, source)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “I'd *never* ask you to do something I wasn't willing to do myself.” (2020-12-19, source)
Says it's false (17)
- Donald Trump: “The Vaccine and the Vaccine rollout are getting the best of reviews. Moving along really well. Get those “shots” everyone!” (2020-12-17, source)
- Elon Musk: “To be clear, I do support vaccines in general & covid vaccines specifically. The science is unequivocal. In very rare cases, there is an allergic reaction, but this is easily addressed with an EpiPen.” (2021-04-07, source)
- Mehdi Hasan: “Millions dead from Covid, many of which could have been prevented by masks and/or vaccines.” (2023-02-27, source)
- Piers Morgan: “The covid vaccines were comparatively safe and incredibly effective in stopping many people getting seriously ill or dying, but they didn’t stop transmission as the experts originally thought, and as with all vaccines, some people had adverse reactions.” (2023-04-29, source)
- Seth Meyers: “There seems to be some tension at Fox over whether Trump deserves credit for this miraculous medical breakthrough that will save the world," Seth Meyers said Wednesday, "or whether the vaccines are actually part of a sinister plot to do… something bad, it's not clear what.” (2021-03-17, source)
- Anderson Cooper: “Right now, thanks to the efforts of two Presidents, one Republican and one Democrat, people now have easy access often without an appointment to three highly effective vaccines.” (2021-07-15, source)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: “So maybe it’s time to praise the Lab Researchers who developed Vaccines for COVID-19 in record time.” (2021-02-14, source)
- Adam Kinzinger: “Listen, if you are a Republican voter, do not listen to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene. The vaccine is safe, COVID is real, get vaccinated,” (2021-07-12, source)
- Brian Cox: “There is an analogy I’d like to draw here. You trust @DaveWallsworth to land your plane because he’s an expert. He trusts the BA engineers, because they are experts. We both trust the vaccine developers and testers because they are experts. Take the vaccine. Get your life back.” (2020-12-02, source)
- Michael Shermer: “It’s an imperfect analogy, since rare vaccine side effects are real and witches aren’t. But the point remains: during a pandemic, it is important to focus on the real, not the imagined threat.” (2021-08-14, source)
- Barack Obama: “There is a lot of disinformation out there, but here's the truth: You should get a COVID vaccine as soon as it's available to you. It could save your life—or a loved one's.” (2021-02-09, source)
- John Oliver: “Correlation isn't causation. The vaccine protects against COVID, not the concept of mortality. It is weird that I have to clarify this but you are, in fact, going to die one day, Mike .” (2021-05-03, source)
- Rachel Maddow: “Please get vaccinated.
Even if you don't care about yourself, honestly, you guys are filling up the hospitals and it's terrible for everyone.” (2021-12-16, source)
- Bill Maher: “Those people are alive today, I think, because of the vaccine. I think that's the truth. Does it also have complications? Yes,” (2024-04-26, source)
- Hillary Clinton: “I'm more grateful than ever for the protection vaccines can provide against serious illness. Please get vaccinated and boosted if you haven't already!” (2022-03-22, source)
- Liz Cheney: “The vaccines are certainly the light at the end of the tunnel, and those are coming very quickly, but we're going to have to get people through the next several months here and make sure that people's businesses can continue to thrive.” (2020-11-25, source)
- Stephen Colbert: “Yep! I tested positive for Covid, but basically I'm feeling fine- grateful to be vaxxed and boosted. Thank you for the well wishes. This just proves that I will do anything to avoid interviewing Jason Bateman.” (2022-04-21, source)
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