{"id":629792,"date":"2021-08-10T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=629792"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:35:38","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-rand-paul-getting-his-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-rand-paul-getting-his-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Rand Paul Getting His COVID-19 Vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-rand-paul-getting-his-covid-19-vaccine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=629792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-Susan-Walsh-PoolGetty-Images-21211-e1626290926247.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=4927580800590799&amp;set=a.101133023235625&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The picture shows Paul receiving a hepatitis A booster shot. In May, the senator said he did not have plans at the time to get a COVID-19 vaccine because he\u2019d previously contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1424399282447298563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> posted to his verified Twitter account Aug. 8, Paul criticized various COVID-19 mitigation measures, mask mandates and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He also promised in the video that if a public school system isn\u2019t offering full-time, in-person learning, he would file an amendment to defund it, according to Kentucky news station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/2021\/08\/09\/sen-rand-paul-no-one-should-follow-cdcs-antiscience-mask-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WKYT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, social media users are sharing a photo of Paul receiving an injection, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=4927580800590799&amp;set=a.101133023235625&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claims<\/a> that it shows him getting a COVID-19 vaccine. In some instances, Facebook users pointed to the photo in an attempt to seemingly suggest he is being hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search traced the image back to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/02\/03\/rand-paul-gets-a-booster-vaccination\/?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 2015 article<\/a> published by The New York Times titled \u201cRand Paul Gets a Booster Vaccination.\u201d Paul invited a New York Times reporter to accompany him as he received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/hav\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hepatitis A<\/a> booster shot in 2015 after he made comments that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/02\/03\/rand-paul-gets-a-booster-vaccination\/?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>, seemed to raise questions about his stance on childhood vaccine safety.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, taken by reporter Jeremy W. Peters in 2015, shows the senator as he \u201creceived a booster vaccination for Hepatitis A on Tuesday in the Capitol physician\u2019s office,\u201d the caption states. Paul told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/02\/03\/rand-paul-gets-a-booster-vaccination\/?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> at the time, \u201cIt just annoys me that I\u2019m being characterized as someone who\u2019s against vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky senator contracted COVID-19 in March 2020, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/03\/22\/kentucky-sen-rand-paul-tests-positive-covid-19\/2894959001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louisville Courier Journal<\/a>. In May of this year, he said he did not have plans to get a COVID-19 vaccination because he had natural immunity but might change his mind if \u201cthey show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers or being hospitalized or getting very sick,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/rand-paul-says-he-won-t-get-covid-vaccine-n1268268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/prepare-for-vaccination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on its website<\/a> that \u201cyou should get a COVID-19 vaccine regardless of whether you already had COVID-19\u201d because \u201cexperts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19.\u201d A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2021\/s0806-vaccination-protection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent CDC study<\/a> of Kentuckians who had previously contracted COVID-19 found that \u201cunvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Data from that study indicates COVID-19 vaccines \u201coffer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2021\/s0806-vaccination-protection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=005825637436126335676:crrjgot3sag&amp;q=https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/07\/13\/fact-check-covid-delta-variant-not-fake-news\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwieu6XEt5PyAhVNGVkFHTTzBHAQFjAAegQIBBAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw05Fbvm2Fil3RfstAihgWms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, The COVID-19 Delta Variant Is Not Fake)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact reached out to Paul\u2019s office for comment and will update this article if a response is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.Verdict: False The picture shows Paul receiving a hepatitis A booster shot. 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