Claim: The Covid-19 vaccine increases your chance of getting Covid and spreading Covid, and it damages your immune system to such a degree that you have a higher risk of hospitalisation and death.
Fact-check: Covid-19 vaccine doesn't raise risk of catching and dying from the disease - Full Fact
Verdict: this is false. a large body of evidence shows that the covid-19 vaccines protect to some extent against infection, and substantially against hospitalisation and death.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2023-09-12T00:00:00