In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor debunked her claim before adding that misinformation regarding vaccines is spread mostly on social media.
“There’s no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen. So the answer to your question is ‘no,” Fauci said, “The only way we know to counter mis- and disinformation is to provide a lot of correct information and to essentially debunk these kinds of claims, which may be innocent on her part,” Fauci said. “I’m not blaming her for anything. But she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis except [as] a one-off anecdote. And that’s not what science is all about.”