Claim Check, which supposedly fact checks public statements, employs the different-must-be-wrong-theory in dismissing a Heritage analysis because it is an “outlier.”
The video where President Rodrigo Duterte made the statement was aired in September 2021, when booster shots were not yet authorized in the Philippines
FALSE: Galvez says Sinovac vaccine good enough for poor Filipinos
Feb 24, 2021 2:14 PM PHT
Rappler.com
At a glance:
Claim: Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr said the Sinovac vaccine is good enough for poor Filipinos despite its 50.4% efficacy rate.
Rating: FALSE
The facts: The quote card containing the claim was manipulated. The government s coronavirus task force also denied that Galvez released such a statement.
Why we fact-checked this: Multiple Facebook accounts and pages shared the fake quote card, as spotted by monitoring tools Claim Check and CrowdTangle.
Complete details:
A fake quote card attributed a false quote to vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. It circulated on Facebook as early as Monday, February 22.