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COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the incidence of poor outcomes during pregnancy, according to current safety data on COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages
Flora Teoh
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Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Facebook users, 2021-02-06 -
InaccurateThe CDC didn’t introduce a “major rule change” to inflate COVID-19 deaths; there have been more than 490,000 excess deaths in the U.S. to date
Claim:
“CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent”; “the NVSS COVID-19 Alert No. 2 [deemphasized] underlying causes of death [...] by recording them in Part II rather than Part I of death certificates [...] This was a major rule change [...] from the 2003 guidance on certification of death
Source: Gateway Pundit, Patty McMurray, 2021-02-09 -
Inaccurate
Article claiming that masks contribute to cancer development misrepresents a study about lung cancer that didn’t involve masks
Claim:
“Long-term Mask Use May Contribute to Advanced Stage Lung Cancer, Study Finds”
Source: Blacklisted News, Global Research, Philip Schneider, 2021-01-29 -
Flawed reasoning
Vaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video
Claim:
“We have vaccines because we didn't have treatment for smallpox and it was a very deadly disease that made sense to have a vaccine. [...] but [COVID-19]? Even without doing anything, this disease has a 99.991[%] chance of survival.”
Source: The New American, Lee Merritt, 2021-01-15 -
Misleading
Frequency of deaths in elderly individuals after COVID-19 vaccination wasn’t higher than the frequency in those who weren’t vaccinated
Claim:
“Aaron’s tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of COVID vaccines.”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-01-22 -
Inaccurate
Most positive COVID-19 PCR test results are true positives; WHO information notice didn’t change threshold or criteria for a positive COVID-19 test
Claim:
“WHO Admits High-Cycle PCR Tests Produce COVID False Positives”; the WHO’s new guidance includes lower PCR thresholds
Source: Zero Hedge, Children's Health Defense, David Samadi, Joseph Mercola, 2021-01-21 -
Mostly accurate
Too early for conclusions on long-term COVID-19 immunity, but some findings suggest that immune memory against the virus lasts for up to eight months and possibly longer
Claim:
“COVID-19 immunity likely lasts for years”
Source: MIT Technology Review, Neel V. Patel, 2021-01-06 -
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VAERS reports of adverse events in people who received COVID-19 vaccines don’t demonstrate that these events were caused by the vaccines; evidence does not indicate COVID-19 vaccines caused Bell’s palsy and deaths
Claim:
“Thousands of COVID Vaccine Injuries and 13 U.S. Deaths Reported in December Alone”; “In December, 3,916 COVID vaccine-related adverse events, including 13 deaths, were reported to VAERS”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Anonymous, 2021-01-14 -
Inaccurate
Vaccines protect people from diseases, but don’t always prevent disease transmission; research ongoing to determine if COVID-19 vaccines stop transmission
Claim:
The COVID-19 RNA vaccine “is not a vaccine”; a vaccine has to disrupt transmission by CDC and FDA standards; the vaccine “activate[s] the cell to become a pathogen-manufacturing site”
Source: New Earth Project, David Martin, 2021-01-05 -
InaccurateThe CDC reports more than 2.9 million deaths in the U.S. in 2020; there were at least 377,000 more deaths in 2020 compared to previous years
Claim:
the number of deaths in America in 2020 was not greater than that in 2019
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Facebook users, 2020-12-31
