Conspiracist Alex Jones spreads factless claim that monkeypox linked to COVID vaccines

Credit: India Today
Credit: India Today

Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming the Covid-19 vaccines for the current ongoing monkeypox outbreak. After all, since early 2021, seemingly every time a new health problem has reached the news, some politicians, TV personalities, and anonymous social media accounts have tried to link the new problem back to the Covid-19 vaccines.

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So what Alex Jones tried to do on a recent episode of his InfoWars show shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Jones, who by the way is not medical doctor or other type of scientist yet has peddled supplements and other health products, tried to somehow connect the monkeypox outbreak with Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccines. If you’ve been Jonesing for a clip of this moment in Jones’s InfoWars show, Florida lawyer Ron Filipkowski provided one with the following tweet:

As you can see, Jones’s primary argument was that the monkeypox outbreak has been affecting the same countries where people have been receiving the Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines. Of course, that ain’t too compelling an argument.

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