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DTaP vaccine isn’t associated with sudden infant death syndrome, whooping cough vaccine led to historic decline in cases
Claim:
Whooping cough vaccine was never necessary, DTaP vaccine is linked to sudden infant death syndrome
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Source: Instagram, Jaclyn Simone, 2024-03-03 -
MisleadingVaccines, treatments reduced public health threat posed by COVID-19, explaining different approach in 2024 compared to 2020
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COVID-19 has been like the flu since the beginning of the pandemic
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InaccurateChildhood vaccine ingredients are safe in the amount present in vaccines; cells, animal products, and viruses aren’t part of these ingredients
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Childhood vaccines contain “mixed up toxins” including formaldehyde, aluminum, aborted fetal DNA, fetal bovine serum, monkey kidney cells, mercury, pig circoviruses
Source: Instagram, Social media user, 2024-03-03 -
UnsupportedHealth risks associated with pesticide chlormequat on oat- and wheat-based food products require further investigation
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Chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats may cause infertility and delayed puberty
Source: Facebook, New York Post, Twitter, Shannon Thaler, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Social media user, 2024-02-15 -
MisleadingTennessee House Bill HB1894 isn’t evidence that vaccines are present in food at grocery stores; edible vaccines remain hypothetical for now
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Researchers have “already perfected the ability to put human vaccines” into certain foods “right now”; grocery vegetables might contain human vaccines
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InaccurateVarious childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination
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“No childhood vaccine has ever been through a double blind placebo controlled trial.”
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IncorrectThe level of aluminum in childhood vaccines is safe, even for babies
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Per FDA guidelines, babies are too small to safely handle the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-18 -
How health problems after COVID-19 vaccination are sometimes used to feed misinformation narratives
While illness can occur shortly after vaccination, it doesn’t mean that the vaccine must be the cause. Illness can also occur simply by coincidence, since diseases have existed long before vaccines arrived. Part of evaluating whether a vaccine is the cause of an illness requires determining if vaccinated people are at a higher risk of the illness compared to unvaccinated people—something that anecdotes alone cannot provide.
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IncorrectFrance passed a law targeting health-threatening psychological manipulation and influence, but didn’t criminalize criticism of mRNA vaccines
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“France will send citizens to jail if they question mRNA vaccines”; “It’s now a crime in France to oppose the mRNA vax”
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-16 -
MisleadingThe American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation
Source: Instagram, Twitter, Social media users, 2024-02-21
