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Rogan: "But time has shown that Sweden actually had a more effective take on the virus." Rogan: "So, if they had just done what Sweden had done and some other countries where they didn’t institute lockdowns and they sort of let people just live their lives and make their own choices, they were saying that millions of people would have died?" In reality, Biden and his predecessors have used the auditorium for events for years. Some social media posts cited the use of the backdrop as evidence that Biden had not actually been vaccinated.

But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not recommend aspirating before administering any vaccines, as it could cause additional pain.īiden received his booster shot on camera in September, in front of a backdrop that looks like the White House but is actually in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Rogan and others have wrongly suggested that Biden has not actually received the vaccine since his shots were not aspirated. The practice and its perceived benefits are the subject of debate among medical professionals. Aspiration refers to pulling back the plunger of a syringe to check that the needle was not inserted into a blood vessel. Rogan: "That’s my favorite rabbit hole because of the fake set, remember."įalse. Malone: "Yeah, and was that really a vaccine? Right, then we go down that whole rabbit -" Rogan: "I’ll tell you what to say - that’s not the way to do it." Rogan: "But I saw the shot where Joe Biden got it on TV and they didn’t aspirate them. It is also worth noting that researchers have questioned the reliability of data from Uttar Pradesh. Promoters of ivermectin often cite Uttar Pradesh’s low death toll as proof of the drug’s efficacy, but experts say there is no proof of that causal link. Though the case count in the state remained low during the summer and fall, it began to trend upward by late December, when Malone spoke with Rogan, and topped 23,000 daily cases in mid-January. Malone was also wrong that cases in Uttar Pradesh "flatlined" as the world coped with the omicron variant. Biden and Modi met in September, and officials in Uttar Pradesh have continued to publicize the state’s use of ivermectin since, even as India stopped recommending it. The state issued a government notice in August 2020 recommending the prescription of the drug to those who had come into contact with Covid patients, and officials have publicly acknowledged its use throughout the pandemic. It is not exactly a secret that Uttar Pradesh has promoted ivermectin as a prophylactic. Malone’s suggestion that Biden urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India to conceal the successful use of the drug ivermectin in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, does not add up.
