The facts are indeed, the facts.
The thing that always gets me is. . . as someone who grew up in a medical family and went through a doctorate degree in the sciences, my extended social group is largely made up of PhDs and medical sorts. The PhDs in particular tend to be independent thinker types and certainly the ones with science degrees have the educational chops to appropriately assess the relevant literature. And they are all vaccinated. The explanation of this for the vocal anti-vaxxers seems to be that either that: 1) They are naive idiots and sheep, or 2) they are all in on a conspiracy. This seems like a wild sort of arrogance to me to just assume that all of these highly educated scientists are idiots whereas the anti-vaxxer found all the information they needed to ‘know the truth’ on substack, often from groups selling $1000 ‘vaccine-detox’ vitamin kits.
No one of any note said that in my neck of the woods. They said things like “the vaccine offers a 98% reduction in severe illness in death and as a happy side bonus appears to reduce transmission of the current strain of covid (then delta, iirc) by 75%”. But I assume you’re American. I’ve certainly seen some wild claims in the American media, and I would agree that humanity has an ongoing problem with outrageous headlines in the media generally, propelled click-bait culture and how search algorithms are managed, etc… This is also how things like, “covid vaccine causes stillbirths!” start to fill up your particular news consumption, I imagine. Media transmission of new science is also regularly poor, and has been since long before covid.