As White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was wrapping up her first press briefing after coming back from her bout with COVID, one last reporter shouted out a question. Brian Karem, a reporter for Playboy and an analyst for CNN, asked Psaki about people who promote “dubious alternatives” to the COVID vaccine.

The vaccine — do you have anything to say to celebrities who have promoted, like Aaron Rodgers, who’ve promoted alternative, dubious alternatives to the vaccine?

Smiling as she put her mask back on at the completion of the presser, Psaki immediately responded, “You know how we feel about misinformation. We’re against it.”

Rodgers had been in the news initially after he finally admitted that he had not been following the NFL’s COVID protocol and had never been vaccinated, despite publicly saying he’d been “immunized.”

It’s a common belief among vaccine skeptics that natural antibodies developed after having been infected with the virus were as effective as the vaccines available from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and others. Research has debunked this myth, though many continue to believe it.

Rodgers could have quelled it all by apologizing for being misleading and simply getting the vaccine. Instead, he and his fiance Shailene Woodley released statements doubling down on their refusal to do their civic duty and get the shot.

The “misinformation” that Psaki references here is usually some lie associated with a Republican who has a political agenda. But the misinformation being spread by Rodgers and those like him is far more dangerous to America than simply claiming you had the country’s biggest inauguration or that a hurricane might touch down somewhere meteorologists say it won’t.

It could do serious damage to collective American trust in our doctors and nurses and scientists.

Watch Psaki’s answer here:

Journalist Brian Karem asks Psaki about “celebrities who promote dubious alternatives” to the COVID vaccine, mentioning Aaron Rodgers by name.

“You know how we feel about misinformation. We’re against it.” pic.twitter.com/MXlSsvOXPO

— The Political Flare (@politicalflares) November 12, 2021

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