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Savenok/Stringer, Getty Images Claim: In 2023, Chelsea Clinton declared all U.S. children must be forced to get mRNA vaccines (which include COVID-19 vaccines) without parents\' consent. Rating: False About this rating On May 7, 2023, a website called The People\'s Voice published a _story_ claiming that Chelsea Clinton had said every child in America needed to be \"force-jabbed\" with vaccines. The article claimed: Advertisement: > 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 People\'s Voice article appeared to be the source of the rumor about Clinton. We found social media posts linking to the article on _Facebook_, _Twitter_, and _Reddit_. The People\'s Voice is a rebrand of Newspunch, a long-time and well-known producer of misinformation. > When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke. I was wrong. Wow. Just wow. > > > — Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) May 8, 2023 Advertisement: The underlying claim in the People\'s Voice story, as well as the social media posts, was false. We found no evidence that Clinton said every U.S. child should get mRNA vaccines without parental consent. It appeared to be based on remarks she made during a conference hosted by Fortune in April 2023, in which she promoted routine vaccinations of children globally to curb the spread of preventable viruses. At the event, she was promoting a public health initiative to vaccinate children against diseases such as measles and polio — not COVID-19 — globally, particularly in some countries outside of the U.S. where the rate of such immunizations remains low. As far as the alleged quote from Clinton serving as the headline for the article by The People\'s Voice, we watched footage of Clinton\'s appearance at the Fortune conference from an article written by the publication, searched Clinton\'s social media accounts, and analyzed reputable news articles, and could not find evidence of Clinton saying anything resembling \"It\'s time to force-jab every unvaccinated child in America.\" The headline appeared to be a fabricated quote. \"The Big Catch-up\" is a real initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, UNICEF, the Vaccine Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to an April 24, 2023, joint _news release_ from the organizations. The initiative is _focused_ on _routine vaccines_ , which are recommended for all patients depending on age and vaccine history and aim to prevent outbreaks of diseases like measles, diphtheria, polio, and yellow fever. Advertisement: The initiative was not related to the COVID-19 pandemic. \"The Big Catch-up\" is particularly focused on increasing immunization in countries where three quarters of children missed vaccines in 2021. The U.S. was not one of those countries. The press release also did not mention mRNA vaccines, which include most COVID-19 vaccines. While the _news release_ said that the initiative would call on leaders of other countries to reach the children who had missed vaccines, it did not say that unvaccinated children from those countries would be \"force-jabbed\" or vaccinated without parental consent. At the Fortune event that seemingly fueled the rumored statements about mandatory vaccinations, Clinton said the initiative\'s purpose was to \"catch kids up on their routine immunizations.\" Like the press release, she did not mention mRNA vaccines, or parental consent, despite what The People\'s Voice article claimed she said. We found the remarks beginning at 3:09 in the video: > And the last thing I\'ll say is a new effort that we\'re a part of is the > new initiative launched by the World Health Organization last week to try to > catch kids up on their routine immunizations. In 2021 alone, more than 25 > million kids under the age of one missed at least one routine immunization. > And so we\'re working with WHO and the Gates Foundation and others to > hopefully have the largest kind of childhood immunization effort ever over > the next 18 months to catch as many kids up as possible. Because no one > should die of polio or measles or pneumonia, including in this country, > where we also need people to be vaccinating their kids. Advertisement: In sum, the initiative cited by Clinton in an interview that was framed as her promoting forced mRNA vaccinations of children in the U.S.. was actually an effort to vaccinate children in countries with low immunization levels against viruses other than COVID-19. There was no evidence of the effort forcing vaccines on children without parents\' approval. For those reasons, we rate this claim False. We\'ve fact-checked rumors that spread from The People\'s Voice before, including the false claim that the World Economic Forum _ordered_ governments to begin rationing water. #### Sources Abramson, Brian Dean. \"Do US Teens Have the Right to Be Vaccinated against Their Parents\' Will? It Depends on Where They Live.\" The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2021, vaccinated-against-their-parents-will-it-depends-on-where-they-live-166147. Global Partners Announce a New Effort – \"The Big Catch-up\" – to Vaccinate Millions of Children and Restore Immunization Progress Lost during the Pandemic. new-effort-the-big-catch-up-to-vaccinate-millions-of-children-and-restore- immunization-progress-lost-during-the-pandemic. Accessed 8 May 2023. Kent Ransom, Michael & Kim, Phillis. \"How to Finance \"The Big Catch-Up,\" Allowing More Children and Communities to Be Protected from Vaccine- Preventable Diseases.\" 26 Apr. 2023, finance-big-catch-allowing-more-children-and-communities-be-protected-vaccine. Kasprak, Alex. \"Did World Economic Forum Order Governments to Begin Rationing Water?\" Snopes, 15 Apr. 2023, governments-ration-water/. \---. \"Has Vaccine MRNA Entered the Food Supply via GMO Plants or Vaccinated Livestock?\" Snopes, 3 May 2023, entered-the-food-supply/. Prater, Erin. \"Chelsea Clinton Is Working to Stand up \'the Largest Childhood Immunization Effort Ever\' with the Gates Foundation and the WHO.\" Fortune Well, vaccine-catch-up-plan/. Accessed 8 May 2023. Vaccination Schedules Map - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization. Accessed 8 May 2023. ### By Izz Scott LaMagdeleine Izz Scott LaMagdeleine is a fact-checker for Snopes. ## Article Tags Vaccines COVID-19 Chelsea Clinton Recommendations Advertisement: ![\\"Snopes.com\\"](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\") Company About Us FAQs Contact Us Submit a Topic Navigate Home Search Archive Newsletters Random Sections Latest Top Fact Checks News Account Join Login Game FactBot Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter © 1995 - 2024 by Snopes Media Group Inc. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com Terms of Use Privacy Policy DMCA Policy
In 2023 Chelsea Clinton declared all US children must be forced to get mRNA vaccines which include COVID19 vaccines without parents' consent