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What the ‘Choosing Your COVID-19 Vaccine’ Meme Gets Wrong

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22 May 2021

What the ‘Choosing Your COVID-19 Vaccine’ Meme Gets Wrong

As COVID-19 vaccines became widely available to Americans in spring 2021, anti-vaccine groups attempted to frame the shots’ manufacturers as untrustworthy to try to stop people from getting inoculated.

Snopes reporter Jessica Lee has more.

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