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Did Bill Gates Develop mRNA Vaccine Patches For The Poor?!

Claim : Bill Gates Developed mRNA Vaccine Patches For The Poor!

People are sharing an article by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims that Bill Gates just unveiled a new mRNA vaccine technology that uses patches that he hopes to force poor people to wear!

Here is an excerpt for that long-winded article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts:

Bill Gates Developing mRNA ‘Vaccine Patches’ That Low-Income Families Will Be Forced To Wear

Bill Gates has unveiled a new mRNA vaccine technology that uses patches instead of needles that he hopes government’s will force low-income people to wear.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization (WHO), and Gavi, the vaccine-containing microarray patches (VMAP) – also known as “micro-array patches” or “microneedle patches” – have been the subject of dozens of scientific papers in recent years.

According to Gates, the mRNA patches will solve the problem of vaccine hesitancy in countries that cannot afford traditional needle-based vaccines.

Childrenshealthdefense.org reports: Scientific and medical experts who spoke with The Defender raised questions about the technology and warned of potential dangers.

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., senior director of science and research for Children’s Health Defense, said that the term “vaccine patch” may also be misleading, as it might be confused with nicotine patches for smokers.

Hooker told The Defender:

“The term ‘vaccine patch’ is misleading in that this microarray technology is nothing like other patch-based delivery systems for nicotine or hormones. This ‘patch’ still breaks the skin in order to deliver the liquid vaccine that is contained in the microarray’s matrix.

“As such, I don’t quite understand how this injection system will be delivered to patients and parents to administer the vaccine directly. That seems quite risky.

“Unfortunately, repackaging the same vaccines in this different platform does nothing to improve their safety — as this seems more a ploy to convince consumers otherwise.”

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Truth : Bill Gates Did Not Develop mRNA Vaccine Patches For The Poor!

This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created about Bill Gates, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Bill Gates Did Not Develop VMAP

As clever as Bill Gates may be, he did not develop vaccine-containing microarray patches (VMAP), or even the microarray patch technology.

Microarray patch technology, which is also known as microneedle patches, was first developed by a research group headed by Mark Prausnitz at the Georgia Institute of Technology,

Just because the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded some of this research, does not mean Bill Gates invented or developed VMAP, any more than any stock investor or venture capitalist can claim to be the inventor of the technologies developed by the companies they invest in.

Fact #2 : VMAP Has Been In Development Since 1998

Vaccine-containing microarray patches (VMAP) isn’t really new technology. They have been in development since Mark Prausnitz’s team demonstrated in 1998 that microneedles can penetrate the uppermost layer (stratum corneum) of the human skin, and therefore could be used to deliver therapeutic agents.

Since then, many research teams have worked on developing and improving the microarray / microneedle patch technology, and there are now 5 main types:

Solid microneedle array to create microscopic wells in the skin, for the drug to be applied via a transdermal patch.
Hollow microneedles to deliver the drug directly into the skin.
Coated microneedles to deliver the drug directly into the skin.
Dissolvable microneedles to ensure the drug only dissolves once inside the body.
Hydrogel-forming microneedles to create a hydrogel that releases the drug inside the skin.

Fact #3 : There Are No mRNA Vaccine Patches

The claim that Bill Gates has developed mRNA vaccine patches that he hopes to force poor people to use is utter nonsense. There are no mRNA vaccine patches, period.

No mRNA vaccine patches are known to have been developed to date, never mind tested and approved!

In addition, there is no evidence that Bill Gates ever claimed that “mRNA patches will solve the problem of vaccine hesitancy”. After all… there are NO mRNA vaccine patches!

Fact #4 : No One Is Forcing Poor People To Get Vaccinated

The claim that these non-existent mRNA vaccine patches are being developed to force poor people to get vaccinated is utter nonsense as well.

As UNICEF points out – the VMAP technology is an alternative immunisation method that has the potential to:

increase acceptability by caregivers and recipients
make vaccines easier to administer
improve safety for healthcare workers
reduce the need for cold chains
enable easier storage and transportation
remove the risk of needle waste

There is no mandate to vaccinate using VMAPs, just as there is no mandate to vaccinate using standard intramuscular injections.

Truth be told – if people are really forced to get the COVID-19 vaccine, poor or otherwise, the “evil government” can just inject them all using existing intramuscular syringes. There is no need to develop new VMAP technology at all!

Needless to say, The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch) offered no evidence to back up its claim that Bill Gates developed mRNA vaccine patches that “he hopes governments will force low-income people to wear“.

Fact #5 : The People’s Voice Is A Fake News Website

The People’s Voice is the new name / brand for NewsPunch, which likely changed its name because it has been so thoroughly discredited, its brand was worthless.

Like Real Raw News, NewPunch was a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money.

It was founded as Your News Wire in 2014, before being rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news spread on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:

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Did Chelsea Clinton Call To Force-Jab Every Child?!

Claim : Chelsea Clinton Calls To Force-Jab Every Child!

People are sharing an article that claims that the Chelsea Clinton say it’s time to force-jab every child in America with the mRNA vaccine, with or without parental consent!

Here is an excerpt from the very long article, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Chelsea Clinton: ‘It’s Time To Force-Jab Every Unvaccinated Child in America’

Chelsea Clinton has declared that unvaccinated children in America must be forced to take the mRNA jab with or without parental consent.

Chelsea – via the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) – along with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says she hopes to force jab unvaccinated children via a new initiative called “The Big Catch-up.”

“The Big Catch-up” will last 18 months and, according to Bill Clinton’s daughter, aims to become “the largest childhood immunization effort ever.”

Childrenshealthdefense.org reports: Clinton, who serves as vice chair of CHAI, last week presented the initiative at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health Conference in Marina del Rey, California.

One day earlier, under the auspices of World Immunization Week, the WHO introduced “The Big Catch-up,” describing it as a “targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Truth : Chelsea Clinton Never Called To Force-Jab Any Child!

This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : The People’s Voice Is A Fake News Website

The People’s Voice is the new name / brand for NewsPunch, which was forced to change its name because it has been so thoroughly discredited, its brand was worthless.

Like Real Raw News, NewPunch was a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money.

Fact #2 : Chelsea Clinton Did Not Call To Force-Jab Any Child

As usual, NewsPunch / The People’s Voice offered ZERO EVIDENCE to back up its claims. That’s because it’s a fake story – Chelsea Clinton never once say that it was time to force-jab every child in America with the mRNA vaccine, with or without parental consent!

NewsPunch / The People’s Voice also offered NO EVIDENCE that Chelsea Clinton said “she hopes to force jab unvaccinated children via a new initiative called “The Big Catch-up”.

In fact, anyone who spends just a minute or two to search on Google or Bing would have discovered that there is not even a single quote from any speech or video to show that Chelsea Clinton called for children to be forcibly vaccinated with the mRNA vaccines, with or without parent consent.

Fact #3 : The Big Catch-Up Is About Childhood Vaccinations

The NewsPunch / The People’s Voice is based on what Chelsea Clinton said at Fortune’s Barnstorm Health conference in Marin del Ray, California on April 26, 2023.

At the event, she was promoting The Big Catch-Up, which is a global public health initiative to vaccinate children against childhood diseases like measles, diphtheria, polio and yellow fever.

Not only was she referring to a global initiative, she was also referring to childhood diseases. She certainly did not said that children should be forcibly vaccinated. Neither did she say that they should be vaccinated with or without their parents’ consent.

The Big Catch-Up does not involve mRNA vaccines or COVID-19 vaccines. It only targets childhood vaccinations that have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In other words – claims that this is about forcibly vaccinating American children with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is utter nonsense, and are pure lies.

Fact #4 : She Warned About Low Childhood Vaccinations In The US

The Big Catch-Up isn’t focused on the United States. Rather, it mainly targets the 20 countries where three quarters of children who missed vaccinations in 2021 lives – Afghanistan, Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, DPRK, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Tanzania, Viet Nam.

While the United States isn’t the main focus of The Big Catch-Up, Chelsea Clinton pointed out that many US c children failed to get their childhood vaccines. Less than 70% of children ages 2 and under in the US were considered fully vaccinated during 2020-2021, having received a full set of shots for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, and other diseases common before the vaccine era.

No one should die of polio, measles, or pneumonia—including in this country, where we also need people to vaccinate their kids.

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Did China Contribute 60% Of COVAX Vaccine Supply?

CGTN Europe : China Contributed 60% Of COVAX Vaccine Supply!

Patrick Rhys Atack from CGTN Europe took umbrage at UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that “the effort to vaccinate the world would only be completed very largely thanks to the efforts of [G7] countries“.

He wrote an article in response called, Who is vaccinating the world?, claiming that China contributed 60% of the COVAX vaccine supply so far.

In his article, he shared this pie chart, showing UNICEF data for the “total doses delivered to [COVAX] by donor country”.

As you can see, he clearly showed that China delivered just over 60% of the COVAX vaccine supply so far. Or did he? Let’s take a closer look…

Truth : China Did NOT Contribute 60% Of COVAX Vaccine Supply

The short and simple truth is – China did NOT contribute 60% of COVAX vaccine supply, and is unlikely to do so even in the future.

Here are the facts…

Fact #1 : Chinese Vaccines Not In UNICEF Data On COVAX

The pie chart was created by CGTN Europe based on UNICEF data, but the truth is – the UNICEF vaccine dashboard actually showed a different story altogether…

The UNICEF data showed that no Chinese vaccines are (currently) part of the vaccine purchases that COVAX made.

315 million doses of vaccines were also donated to COVAX, but UNICEF does not show the breakdown. But even if all 315 million of those vaccine doses are from China, it would only account for 9.5% of the total COVAX vaccine supply of 3.325 million secured doses.

Fact #2 : COVAX Facility Currently Has No Chinese Vaccine

In the latest COVAX Supply Forecast, released on 28 June 2021, there were eight vaccines in the COVAX portfolio, and none of them are from Chinese manufacturers.

It would be quite impossible for China to contribute 60% of COVAX vaccine supply if there are no Chinese vaccines in the COVAX vaccine portfolio…

Fact #3 : China Only Committed 10 Million Doses To COVAX

On 3 February 2021, China announced that they would contribute 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the COVAX Facility.

Those 10 million vaccine doses finally rolled off the Sinopharm production line on 31 May 2021, as China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced on 1 June 2021.

The 10 million doses would only account for 0.3% of the 3,315 million doses secured by the COVAX Facility – a far cry from the 60% claimed by CGTN Europe.

Fact #4 : China Has Not Contributed Financially To COVAX

The COVAX Facility does not just rely on donated COVID-19 vaccines. It relies primarily on financial aid, which allows it to directly purchase vaccines from their manufacturers to distribute.

Currently, COVAX is funded in large part by Western countries and Japan. You can verify this through the latest COVAX donor list.

Even the tiny country of Bhutan contributed to the COVAX Facility, as have many foundations. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in particular, contributed US$206 million to COVAX.

However, China has not contributed a single dollar to the COVAX Facility. So it would be impossible that the 60% vaccine supply claim was partly due to monetary contribution.

COVAX Donors	Contribution (US Dollars)
United States	3,500 million
Germany	1,097 million
Japan	1,000 million
United Kingdom	733 million
European Commission	489 million
Italy	470 million
Canada	384 million
Sweden	296 million
France	244 million
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	206 million

Why Would CGTN Lie About COVAX Contribution By China?

CGTN is part of Chinese state media, and is directly controlled by the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

With China’s aggressive foreign stance in recent years, it is not uncommon to see such fake stories being created by Chinese state media.

Some believe it is part of a concerted attempt to burnish China’s image overseas – a form of vaccine diplomacy.

Others believe the many fake stories are being created to drown out the negative coverage of China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, and their aggressive moves in the South China Sea.

Whatever the reasons may be, it is our duty as global citizens to stop the proliferation of such fake stories.

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