Accurate Health Posted on: 2022-02-09 A new, highly virulent HIV variant named VB variant was indeed identified in the Netherlands Claim: Highly infectious HIV 'VB' variant makes people ill twice as quickly Source: Daily Mail, Emily Craig, 2022-02-03
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2022-01-18 COVID-19 vaccines aren’t associated with a higher risk of pregnancy complication, contrary to claim by Daniel Horowitz Claim: “The shots were not studied in pregnant women”; “we have seen 50 times the rate of reporting [in VAERS] per month of miscarriages for this vaccine than the other vaccines put together.” Source: The Blaze, Daniel Horowitz, 2022-01-11
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-12-24 Contrary to Peter McCullough’s claim, getting vaccinated is safer than getting COVID-19, in spite of rare cases of myocarditis Claim: a “game-changing study” showed that “COVID vaccines [were] more dangerous than the virus itself”; “children aged 12 to 17 are more likely to be hospitalized for myocarditis than for COVID.” Source: The Western Journal, Peter McCullough, Mike Landry, 2021-12-15
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2021-12-09 Unsupported claim about COVID-19 vaccines, anti-spike antibodies, and myocarditis misrepresented conclusions from a New England Journal of Medicine article Claim: “antibodies that people produce against the coronavirus spike protein may lead to myocarditis” Source: Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, Alex Berenson, 2021-11-26
Flawed reasoning Health Posted on: 2021-11-11 Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians Claim: “Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97% after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID” Source: Il Tempo, Zero Hedge, Summit.news, Paul Joseph Watson, 2021-11-04
Health Posted on: 2021-11-11 Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians Claim: “Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97% after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID” Source: Il Tempo, Zero Hedge, Summit.news, Paul Joseph Watson, 2021-11-04
Flawed reasoning Health Posted on: 2021-11-02 Social media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die Claim: “they are needing to change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated” “40% of deaths from C19 last week [...] were fully vaccinated, [...] that’s a jump of 51.2%” Source: Twitter/X, Instagram, Elijah Schaffer, 2021-10-23
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2021-10-19 Vaccines are highly effective against COVID-19, but unvaccinated people can still endanger vaccinated people, contrary to Tucker Carlson’s claim on Fox News Claim: “If you are vaccinated against COVID-19, you face no conceivable danger whatsoever from people who have not been vaccinated”; many unvaccinated people “have natural immunity and are less likely to get sick than a vaccinated person from COVID” Source: Fox News, Tucker Carlson, 2021-09-24
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-09-28 FDA experts support COVID-19 vaccines, didn’t author unsupported allegations of vaccine-caused deaths Claim: 'FDA experts reveal the Covid-19 Vaccines are killing at least 2 people for every 1 life they save' Source: The Exposé, Steve Kirsch, 2021-09-18
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-08-13 Compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated individuals are more protected against the Delta variant Claim: “the CDC now admits that being ‘fully vaccinated’ does not actually fight the ‘delta variant,’ but instead contributes to more infections” Source: Natural News, Ethan A. Huff, 2021-07-29