Misleading
Yellow Card scheme for adverse events does not suggest any new side effects of COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
“The MHRA now has more than enough evidence on the Yellow Card system to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans.”
Ian Le Guillou
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Source: America's Frontline Doctors, Tess Lawrie, 2021-06-11 -
Inaccurate
CDC study finds five percent of teens hospitalized due to COVID-19 require ventilation, vaccinating against COVID-19 can help reduce the risk of severe disease in teens
Claim:
“The kids who were [in hospital for other reasons] were the ones [...] on the ventilators. Not the kids who [were in hospital for COVID-19].”
Source: Facebook, Wendy Bell, 2021-06-07 -
How were mRNA vaccines developed for COVID-19?
The vaccines for COVID-19 produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were the first mRNA vaccines authorized for use in the general…
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Misleading
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Lacks context
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Inaccurate
COVID-19 RNA vaccines are safe, cannot modify human DNA; death rate in vaccinated people isn’t higher than in unvaccinated people
Claim:
“The protein then can bind to your DNA and irreversibly change it”; “[It] has several different type of lipids on it that have never been injected into human beings before”; “We could be looking at right now as many as 12,000 deaths”
Source: Daystar, Sherri Tenpenny, 2021-03-11 -
Misleading
COVID-19 vaccines start to provide protection within two weeks of the first dose, with no evidence they increase the risk of infection before then
Claim:
“Now a Public Health England report confirms that infections increase during the fortnight after vaccination”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Niall McCrae, 2021-03-04 -
Inaccurate
Scientific evidence demonstrates that wearing face masks and implementing lockdowns reduce the spread of COVID-19
Claim:
“It’s been a year & there is still no evidence masks or lockdowns slow the spread of #COVID19”
Source: Facebook, Kimberly Klacik, 2021-02-23 -
Mostly accurate
More evidence needed for the claim that vitamin D supplements reduce risk of COVID-19 infection
Claim:
“Habitual use of vitamin D supplements was associated with a 34% lower risk of COVID-19 infection”; “This is an observational study so causation cannot be established”
Source: Instagram, Rhonda Patrick, 2021-02-04
