Good luck with your antivaxx lies. It was Texas State Senator Bob Hall that spread the misinformation that animal tests conducted by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson resulted in animal deaths. It was Hall who sponsored Bill SB1669, in March 2021 to the Texas Senate, which would forbid mandatory vaccination for all vaccines. Hall’s misinformation was spread by the antivaxxer movement all over the media
It was Hall who said, “Have you seen any other vaccine that was put out for the public that skipped the animal test?”
Fact: All three vaccines authorized by the FDA for Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, underwent preclinical testing in animals before they received authorization. Studies reporting the results of these animal trials were published in scientific journals. If you took all the paperwork involved for just the Moderna tests, a stack would reach the top of the Empire State Building.
Hall: “As I’ve read, they actually started the animal test, and because the animals were dying, they stopped the test. Folks, I think that’s important to understand that what we’re talking about is the American people are now the guinea pigs, this is the test program that’s going on. They didn’t do the human testing, and they stopped the animal test because the animals were dying and then they turned it out for the public.”
Fact: The vaccines tested during preclinical trials didn’t cause animals to die, nor did the trials stop because animals were dying. As explained in this fact-check by Full Fact, if animals had died during the preclinical trials, it would have halted clinical trials in humans as well, and “The fact that [clinical trials in humans] were not [halted] indicates the animals did not die unexpectedly”.
Hall may be confusing the results of a 1990 study done on an earlier coronavirus vaccine undergoing clinical trials, which targeted a virus that infects cats but not humans, with those of the COVID-19 vaccines. In that 1990 study, some of the vaccinated cats died after becoming infected with feline coronavirus due to a phenomenon known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This occurs when antibodies generated against the virus improve the virus’ ability to cause disease, instead of protecting the infected individual. The ADE phenomenon has never been associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fact: Putting the word Fact infront of a paragraph does not make it a fact.
Fact: If you read something on a fact checking website it might not be true.
Fact: if you take the shot and it kills you, you won’t hear others say “I told you so”.