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Washington PostHealth & medicine

“I’ve been vaccinated because I’m in a high-risk category. And I urge people who are in categories that are high-risk to be vaccinated. But I don’t believe the science does compel children to be vaccinated. They’re not likely to contract the coronavirus. They’re not likely to get really sick. They’re not likely to go to hospital. And they’re not likely to die. I believe that’s consistent with the science of people like Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins, and Scott Atlas from Hoover.”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Bob Saget died from the COVID-19 vaccine.

Publisher’s rating: False

Research from related reporting addresses the claim by identifying Bob Saget’s death as an example of a celebrity death whose actual cause was unrelated to vaccination. It says that lists of people supposedly killed by vaccines can include people “whose actual causes of death were unrelated” and specifically states: “Bob Saget: Died of blunt head trauma (accidental fall).” That account supports a different cause of death—blunt head trauma from an accidental fall—rather than the vaccine cause asserted in the claim. The excerpt does not provide underlying records or describe how Saget’s cause of death was verified, so it supports the conclusion through its stated cause, but does not allow further assessment of the evidence behind that statement.