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Vaccine skeptics co-opt the AIDS crisis
Prominent figures who have come out against the Covid vaccine have begun telling their followers that Covid vaccines cause AIDS. They’re calling it “VAIDS” — Vaccine-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Spoiler alert: this is not a real condition.
To understand more, I reached out to the members of ScienceUpFirst, an initiative that works with a collective of independent scientists, researchers and health care experts to counter misinformation.
I asked: what is “VAIDS”?