Anti-lockdown advocates have been claiming online this week that Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton admitted that vaccines never worked. But that's not what he said.
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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[?]", Professor Sutton says: "Getting that third dose is protection against … getting infected 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".
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