One of the primary groups that received funding was the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which has been criticized for discouraging people to get vaccinated “due to perceived dangers that are not accepted by science.” NVIC’s co-founder Barbara Loe Fisher has previously argued that the government use of vaccines is meant to “bring back eugenics and take over health care.” The group has also downplayed the severity of the pandemic in general, criticizing the United States for “cowering in fear before a virus that does not cause any symptoms or complications in the majority of children and adults under the age of 65, and has a mortality rate of about one percent…”
