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How the anti-vaxxer movement continues to be a threat
Manila Bulletin
|October 8, 2025
Debunking misinformation around Covid-19 vaccines
A few days ago, one of my friends on social media tagged me on a video where a semi-famous celebrity with no medical background was attacking Covid-19 vaccines. He was saying that Covid-19 shots were completely bogus, and as proof, he cited a news report of a person who contracted Covid-19 a few days after getting vaccinated and subsequently died.
He then proceeded to cite other instances from news reports where someone got the Covid-19 shot and then later died of Covid-19. He moved on to launching multiple strawman attacks on made-up facts about vaccines and continued his profanity-laced tirade for more than 30 minutes. It was hard to watch.
His first assertions are very easy to disprove. Covid-19 vaccines don't fully protect a person until two weeks after the second shot. Therefore, the person who had only gotten his first shot was not protected because the vaccine had not even begun to generate antibodies.
This story is from the October 8, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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