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”
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Source: Blacklisted News, Global Research, Philip Schneider, 2021-01-29 -
Flawed reasoningVaccines 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 -
MisleadingFrequency 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 -
InaccurateMost 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: Children's Health Defense, Zero Hedge, David Samadi, Joseph Mercola, 2021-01-21 -
Mostly accurateToo 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 -
UnsupportedVAERS 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 -
InaccurateVaccines 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: Twitter/X, Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-12-31 -
UnsupportedGerman study did not find wearing face masks harms children; study wasn’t designed to accurately test these effects
Claim:
”A German study involving over 25,000 children reveals that major negative impacts on the physical, psychological, and behavioral health of children may be far more widespread than reported”
Source: GreenMedInfo, Anonymous, 2020-01-02 -
InaccurateThe virus that causes COVID-19 exists and was identified and isolated multiple times by independent research groups
Claim:
“The COVID-19 virus does not exist”; “The virus has never been isolated”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-12-10
