A clip of WHO director Dr Tedros explaining why he chose to delay receiving the Covid-19 vaccine as a form of protest has been used to claim he hasn’t been vaccinated. This isn’t true.
This isn’t true. The clip is from an edited interview in which Dr Tedros confirmed that he had been vaccinated, but had chosen to delay receiving the vaccine as a form of protest against the slower vaccine rollout in poorer countries.Dr Tedros has confirmed on multiple occasions that he has received the Covid-19 vaccine. In aposted on 12 May 2021, he shared a photo of himself being vaccinated, writing “Today it was my turn to get vaccinated @Hopitaux_unige against #COVID19. Vaccines save lives.
The clip on which the claims that Dr Tedros has not been vaccinated are based is taken from the same interview, which was filmed and also included in an about the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the documentary makers appear to have edited out some parts of the conversation, which was then used in the clips on social media.“Q: I want to ask you about your own vaccination. What was the date you got your first shot?Q: You're the head of WHO. You could have said in December 2020,"I'm ready." Why did you wait?
A: I feel like I know where I belong: in a poor country called Ethiopia, in a poor continent, Africa. With the privileges I have here, maybe I had a chance to have it first. I don't want to use that, because I want to be reminded every day that vaccination should start in Africa. I wanted to wait until Africa and other countries in other regions, low-income countries, started vaccination.
I have a background as a health worker and I'm in one of the risk groups. They were beginning to vaccinate health workers and risk groups [in Africa] around that time, so I thought that was my turn. I was checking my turn, actually, compared to what I would have in Africa, not in Geneva. I was protesting.
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