Conspiracists have published a 'frank admission' by Brett Sutton about boosters. Here's what he really said
No, Brett Sutton did not admit that COVID-19 vaccines never worked
Posts quoting Victoria's Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, are being shared widely on social media, with users suggesting they prove what was long suspected: that COVID-19 vaccines never worked.
On Instagram, an anti-lockdown group juxtaposed two videos of the senior bureaucrat delivering seemingly contradictory messages alongside a caption that asked: "How can anyone believe these hypocrites? Who's paying them to lie to us[?]"
In the first clip, taken from a YouTube video published in April 2022, Professor Sutton says: "Getting that third dose is protection against … getting infected in the first place."
But in the second, taken from an August 1 media conference, he says: "Despite two, three, four doses of the vaccine, it's not so good at preventing infection in the first place."
That quote has been splashed across Telegram, Twitter and various conspiracy news sites, where it has been framed as "a direct contradiction of the lies he told" earlier and "a frank admission that vaccines simply do not work".
But in a statement to CheckMate, a spokesman for the Victorian Department of Health labelled the sharing of historical statements without context as "active disinformation".
"Data and evidence around COVID-19 changes as the virus changes and we have always reflected those changes in messaging and advice," he said.
So, what did Professor Sutton actually say?
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