Members of the White House Covid-19 Response Team and public health officials have emphatically rejected baseless claims from a guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News programme alleging that vaccines are “dangerous and ineffective”.
Asked to respond to Alex Berenson’s remarks on the network, US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr Rochelle Walensky pointed to data showing that people who are vaccinated and boosted against the disease are “68 times less likely to die than if you are unvaccinated”.