DeSantis makes baseless claim at NH town hall: “Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result.”

While campaigning in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Ron DeSantis made a baseless claim about the COVID-19 vaccines. “Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result of it,” the 2024 GOP candidate told a town hall crowd in Hampton.

“They lied to us about the COVID shots. Remember, they said if you take a COVID shot, you will not get COVID? How true was that? Not at all,” the Florida governor said. “Now, every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result of it.”

DeSantis continued: “And they would never talk about any type of side effects. I mean, think about this. Any pharmaceutical that is put on the market when they run these commercials, it’s like the first 30 seconds of the commercial, it’s usually like a married couple, probably like 60 to 65, just walking on the beach or wherever, laughing, having fun because of this miracle drug, right? And then the next 30 seconds is like, you could die, heart attack, this, stroke, and they list all the possible side effects because they’re covering their rear end. But yet, when the mRNA shots came out, they said, with a very short lead time, oh yeah, you know, no problem, you can't have any questions.”