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John Oliver wasted little time diving into his main story on Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight,' spending most of his show debunking the myths surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines.
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00:00The more the virus circulates, the likely we'll see mutations
00:03that make it more dangerous, possibly help...
00:05helping it to evade the vaccine completely,
00:06putting us all the way back to square one.
00:08So get the f***ing vaccine!
00:10John Oliver is debunking all the myths surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:15The Last Week Tonight host wasted no time getting to his main story
00:18during his latest episode, and...
00:20to address the many rumors surrounding the vaccine.
00:22Among the many falsehoods was the conspiracy theory that...
00:25Bill Gates is trying to implant microchips into the population.
00:28Oliver says the rumor is...
00:30based on the fact that the Gates Foundation funded research years ago,
00:33which looked into creating an invisible...
00:35that could potentially be injected into a vaccine
00:38in order for populations like...
00:40to be able to retain vaccine records without paperwork.
00:44He went on to say...
00:45Over time, the original context was lost, contorted,
00:48and kind of telephoned its way into becoming...
00:50something-something Bill Gates Microchips on Facebook.
00:53If you think about it for just a second...
00:55it doesn't make sense.
00:56Because if your main concern is that Bill Gates
00:59could use microchips...
01:00to track you, he can already do that.
01:02That's what your f***ing phone is.
01:05Another theory was that the vaccines change your DNA.
01:08Oliver showed a clip of Alex Jones...
01:10arguing that the vaccines create plaque in your brain
01:12and give you Alzheimer's and that anyone taking it...
01:15will be dead in 10 years.
01:16Oliver noted that there is no evidence supporting that
01:19and cited a report...
01:20saying the mRNA does not enter a person's genome.
01:23Among the other conspiracies he addressed...
01:25was that the vaccine uses aborted fetus cells...
01:27and that they can cause infertility.
01:29During the...
01:30In the trials last year, multiple women became pregnant,
01:33and the only one who suffered a pregnancy...
01:35because the loss was given the placebo.
01:37So, it is just not true.
01:39And the idea that the...
01:40the risks from the vaccine are greater than the risks
01:42from the disease itself.
01:43COVID!
01:45A disease that has killed over 500,000 people
01:48in the U.S. alone while...
01:50But once again, to date,
01:51the vaccine has been proven to kill exactly zero.
01:55Oliver also noted that some politicians are trying to
01:57convince their constituents to get the vaccine in a...
02:00unusual ways.
02:01He noted that the studies have shown people are
02:03not typically convinced by stars or...
02:05politicians telling them to get the vaccine.
02:07I'm not going to be able to convince the people in your life...
02:10who are hesitant.
02:11The person with the best chance of doing that is you.
02:14For more on...
02:15on the story, head to THR.com.
02:17For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.
02:20Over theCan Pediatric News.
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