Inaccurate
Vaccines do provide immunity and can be used to achieve herd immunity
Claim:
Vaccines don’t promise immunity and therefore “vaccine herd immunity doesn’t exist”.
Fernanda Ferreira
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Source: Instagram, Laura Elizabeth, 2021-04-24 -
Partially correct
Infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms; other factors may determine an individual’s susceptibility to infection, but the microorganism is still the cause
Claim:
“…a virus is not the cause of an illness. It’s a necessary cause […] but it is not the cause.”
Source: Facebook, Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2021-04-06 -
Incorrect
There is currently no cure for AIDS; reports to the contrary are incorrect
Claim:
AIDS was cured in more than a dozen patients
Source: Facebook, Alfredo Bowman, 2019-04-01 -
Inaccurate
The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines aren’t operating systems, and won’t transform the human body into a virus-making factory
Claim:
The mRNA vaccine is “an operating system that takes over the machinery of your cells” ; “...by the time you get your fourth shot your body will be making all four proteins that make up the COVID-19 virus.”
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Damon Jones, Abdul Alim Muhammad, 2021-03-28 -
Lacks context
Going vegan may lead to fewer pandemics, but it won’t eliminate them completely
Claim:
“In a vegan world there would be no pandemics. 100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin.”
Source: Facebook, Richard Melville Hall (Moby), 2021-03-23 -
Incorrect
Both viruses and bacteria cause disease; pathogenic viruses aren’t naturally created in the body as a response to damage
Claim:
“You don’t catch viruses, you naturally create them inside of your body”; “bacteria and viruses don’t cause disease.”
Source: Facebook, Melissa Sell, 2021-03-17 -
Inaccurate
Mask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
Claim:
“CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers”; CDC “admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference.”
Source: One America News Network, OANN editors, 2021-03-07 -
Incorrect
Bananas may be healthy, but consuming them won’t treat gastrointestinal diseases nor limit the replication of HIV
Claim:
“Bananas are a powerful antiviral food—so powerful that they have the capacity to repel growth of the retrovirus HIV“
Source: Medical Medium, Anthony William, 2021-02-21
