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Fact Checking a Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweet About COVID Vaccine Claims

Her claim about vaccine-related deaths is misleading and a statement that Joe Biden ‘is going to homes’ is false.
Fact Checking a Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweet About COVID Vaccine Claims

On July 11, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican congresswoman from Georgia and a supporter of Donald Trump, tweeted that “[T]thousands of people are reporting very serious life changing vaccine side effects from taking covid vaccines.” She further claimed that the CDC reported “5,946 deaths” from the vaccine and that President Joe Biden is “going to homes to push shots.”

Khaya Himmelman is a fact checker for The Dispatch. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and Barnard College.

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