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Two days after Orange County's top health official laughed at GOP lawmaker Don Wagner for asking if vaccines have tracking devices, Wagner told The Post he did it to debunk virus "myths."
GOP lawmaker asked whether vaccines have ‘tracking devices.’ He insists he was trying to debunk ‘wild’ claims. Andrea Salcedo
Replay Video UP NEXT It took the top health official in Orange County, Calif., a few seconds to process a lawmaker’s question Tuesday during a Board of Supervisors meeting to discuss “vaccine passports.” “In the vaccine, we heard about an injection of the tracking device,” Supervisor Don P. Wagner (R) said. “Is that being done anywhere in Orange County?” Clayton Chau, the county’s health-care agency director, could not hold back his shocked laughter. “I’m sorry. I just have to compose myself,” Chau said moments later. “There’s not a vaccine with a tracking device embedded in it that I know of exists in the world. Period.”
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California county official who asked whether vaccines have tracking devices insists he was trying to debunk wild claims
Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post
April 29, 2021
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It took the top health official in Orange County, Calif., a few seconds to process a lawmaker s bizarre question during a Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting to discuss vaccine passports. In the vaccine, we heard about an injection of the tracking device, Republican Supervisor Don P. Wagner said. Is that being done anywhere in Orange County?
Clayton Chau, the county s health care agency director, could not hold back his shocked laughter.