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The level of aluminum in childhood vaccines is safe, even for babies
Claim:
Per FDA guidelines, babies are too small to safely handle the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines
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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
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COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation
Source: Twitter, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-21 -
InaccurateGlobal COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits
Claim:
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study shows that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, inadequately tested; getting vaccinated is more dangerous than getting COVID-19
Source: Twitter, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-19 -
IncorrectVaccines don’t cause autism; difference in infant mortality rates between Japan and the U.S. unrelated to childhood vaccine coverage
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Vaccines contain unhealthy levels of aluminum; Japan’s elimination of vaccines has reduced infant mortality
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InaccurateChildhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens
Claim:
Doctors are ‘injecting poison’ into babies every two months.
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InaccurateInstagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases
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Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur
Source: Cultivate Elevate, Matt Roeske, 2024-02-11 -
“Disease X”: How pandemic preparedness talks spawned conspiracy theories online
On 17 January 2024, public health experts including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), held…
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InaccurateClaim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study
Claim:
Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death
Source: The Blaze, Joseph Mackinnon, 2024-01-29
