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InaccurateTromethamine in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children acts to improve the stability of the vaccine; it isn’t in the vaccine as a heart medication
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The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children contains tromethamine, “a heart attack medication” with “a lot of potentially serious side effects”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Social media users, 2021-10-29 -
Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians
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“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: Summit.news, Zero Hedge, Il Tempo, Paul Joseph Watson, 2021-11-04 -
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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: Summit.news, Zero Hedge, Il Tempo, Paul Joseph Watson, 2021-11-04 -
InaccurateThere is no evidence that luciferase is an ingredient in the COVID-19 vaccines
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Luciferase is in the COVID-19 vaccines to tag and track people
Source: Substack, Emerald Robinson, 2021-11-04 -
IncorrectArticle by The Exposé failed to account for caveats listed in U.K. vaccine surveillance reports; falsely claims fully vaccinated people have weakened immunity
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The Vaccine Surveillance Reports published by the U.K. government suggest that fully vaccinated people are developing AIDS
Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2021-10-30 -
MisleadingNo evidence suggests that Pfizer’s smoking cessation medication Chantix increases the risk of cancer; recall of this product is irrelevant to the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
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It “took 15 years to uncover” Chantix’s carcinogenic effects; there are reasons for being “skeptical of something that hasn’t even been established/approved for a full 12 months”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2021-09-15 -
Infection-induced immunity versus vaccine-induced immunity: Weighing the benefits and risks
Introduction Multiple articles and social media posts have debated the strength of infection-induced immunity—commonly referred to as natural immunity—compared to…
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Flawed reasoningSocial 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
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“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: Instagram, Twitter/X, Elijah Schaffer, 2021-10-23 -
An investigation found no evidence that deaths of HIV-positive foster children enrolled in AIDS drug trials were caused by trial medication, contrary to recent claims
In 2004, author Liam Scheff published claims that New York City foster children who were HIV positive participated in experiments with AIDS drugs in the late 1980s and early 1990s that led to the deaths of children. An investigation by the Vera Institute of Justice found that 25 foster children died during the 88 trials and studies conducted in New York City between 1985 and 2005, but Vera did not find that any of the deaths were caused directly by the drugs from the trials. Additionally, while 81.3 percent of the clinical trials in New York City that involved foster children were funded by National Institutes of Health institutes, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci’s personal involvement in funding decisions cannot be determined.
