The Claim:
In a 2021 committee hearing, Texas State Senator Bob Hall claims that the COVID vaccine skipped normal animal and human testing, that animals died during early tests, and that the public is being used as test subjects while the vaccine is still experimental and linked to rising deaths. The video from this hearing is making the rounds again.
The Facts:
We don’t know where this claim started, but it does not make sense. If someone says animal tests were skipped, how can they also say all the animals died in a test? That is not true.
In fact, animal studies were done at the same time as human trials to test the safety of the COVID vaccines and how well they worked. The vaccines went through full testing before the FDA allowed them to be used under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Since then, billions of people have safely received COVID vaccines. Hospital data shows these vaccines lower the risk of severe illness and death.
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