Anti-vaccine site falsely claims Bill Gates disparaged COVID-19 vaccines in video

The high-profile nature of the source elevates its risk. Emphasizing that the site is misrepresenting the clip is recommended, as is explaining that the quote is an honest assessment of the challenges facing COVID-19 vaccines in the current pandemic landscape. Consider countering this misinformation by explaining that when COVID-19 vaccines were developed in 2020, they were designed to fight infection and severe illness from the original COVID-19 strain, which they did very effectively. In the more than three years since SARS-CoV-2 began circulating, it has undergone thousands of mutations that have altered the virus and enabled it to better evade both vaccine and infection immunity compared to  earlier variants. The global scientific community works extremely hard to keep pace. At every stage of the pandemic and against every variant, unvaccinated people have consistently been at a higher risk than vaccinated people for serious illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.

Fact-Checking Source(s):

• HealthCentral, CDC