The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spent over $900 million in taxpayer dollars to fund the “We Can Do This” campaign that promoted the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to the general public.
This information was made public following the completion of an investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which started in April last year.
The study claimed that the main reasons for non-vaccination were due to parents who were concerned about the side effects of the vaccines (53.3 percent), a lack of trust in the current crop of COVID-19 vaccines (48.7 percent), the belief that children do not need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (38.8 percent), lack of trust in the government (35.6 percent) and that children in the household were not members of high-risk groups (32.8 percent).
Biden-Harris vaccination campaign was “deeply flawed”
To counter this, the Biden-Harris administration conducted what the House Energy and Commerce Committee described as a “deeply flawed” campaign based on data and advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that only exacerbated mistrust in the government and COVID-19 vaccines.
Among the medical misinformation it promoted were claims that the COVID-19 vaccines effectively stopped viral transmission, exaggerations of the effectiveness of masking and exaggerations of the risk the virus posed to children, which in reality was almost nonexistent.
The campaign also relied on celebrity advertisements to promote the vaccines and full-time social media influencers to do similar promotions directly to their audiences, reportedly with little success.
The campaign also worked to “regularly synthesize findings from Google search trends and monitor social listening tools … to recommend, develop, shepherd through clearance and traffic a range of timely static and video ads” on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (now X), Reddit and YouTube.
“While the Biden-Harris administration’s public health guidance led to prolonged closures of schools and businesses, the NIH [National Institutes of Health] was spending nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money trying to manipulate Americans with advertisements – sometimes containing erroneous or unproven information,” wrote House Energy And Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) in a statement.
“By overpromising what the COVID-19 vaccines could do – in direct contradiction of the Food and Drug Administration‘s authorizations – and over-emphasizing the virus’ risk to children and young adults, the Biden-Harris administration caused Americans to lose trust in the public health system,” she added.
“Our investigation also uncovered the extent to which public funding went to Big Tech companies to track and monitor Americans, underscoring the need for stronger online data privacy protections.”
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