Tucker Carlson says the COVID-19 vaccine is a “mixed picture” between benefits and deadly side effects Carlson claims the vaccine is “far less effective than we were told they were” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 09/13/21 8:35 PM EDT Video file Citation From the September 13, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): The long-term effects of the COVID vaccines are unknown and at this point cannot be known. We do know the vaccines are many times less effective than natural immunity protecting people. And close to 100 million Americans already have natural immunity. We know that in some cases the COVID vaccine has caused potentially fatal heart problems in the people who take them. One new study shows that teenage boys are six times more likely to suffer cardiac damage from the shot than they are to be hospitalized with COVID itself. So it's a mixed picture, some of what we know about the COVID vaccine. And yet, these very same vaccines, which are far less effective than we were told they were initially, which are potentially dangerous for some and completely unnecessary for tens of millions of others are now nevertheless mandatory for virtually everyone in America.