Study: Researchers managed to get 100,000 people to receive Covid vaccines through $100,000 of YouTube ads

A 27-second video of Donald Trump extolling the virtues of vaccines resulted in 104,036 vaccinations, researchers claim.

It’s been more than two years since vaccines against Covid-19 were first made available to the public, and yet a significant proportion of people still remain unvaccinated. Four in 10 Republicans said in 2021 they didn’t plan to get vaccinated against the virus, while some hardline Republicans refused the shot in the face of vaccine mandates to enter stores and restaurants at Covid’s peak. Even now, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gaining momentum with Republican supporters for his strident anti-vaccine views, and Twitter acts as a Petri dish for conspiracies about the shot.

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