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This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.

We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease.

We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.

I'm Tanya Lewis. I'm Josh Fishman. And we're Scientific American Senior Health Editors. Today, we're

going to discuss the latest lies about vaccines not working. And ways to make them work better for

immunocompromised people. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died this week of complications from COVID.

He was vaccinated, and big media figures used that for a round of terrible disinformation

about vaccines.

His death is sad, and the way some people lied about it is more than that.

It's infuriating.

They left out a crucial piece of information about

General Powell's medical condition in order to make his death seem like a vaccine failure.

It wasn't. Tucker Carlson, who hosts a political talk show on Fox, made a big deal of saying

that Powell was fully vaccinated. That tells us, he said, that you've been lied to.

Vaccines may be highly useful for some people, but across the population, they do not solve COVID.

He added that vaccinated people die, and Powell is hardly the only example of that.

Other talking heads on his network echoed that point, as did politicians such as Florida

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