Could scientists use the bat coronavirus RaTG13 to engineer SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in a lab?
One of the biggest outstanding questions of the COVID-19 pandemic is the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the…
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InaccurateNo aborted fetal tissue or cells in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
Claim:
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has aborted fetal tissue from aborted babies from the retina as well as from kidney cells”
Source: Instagram, Rizza Islam, 2021-03-14 -
InaccurateCOVID-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 -
Flawed reasoningOxygen in the air doesn’t prevent people from getting tetanus through cuts with dirty or rusty objects; the vaccine is important to prevent infection
Claim:
“The tetanus bacteria is an anaerobic bacteria. That means that it cannot live in the presence of oxygen. You cannot get tetanus by stepping on a rusty nail.“
Source: Facebook, Steven Baker, 2021-03-07 -
InaccurateMask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
Claim:
“CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers”; CDC “admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference.”
Source: One America News Network, OANN editors, 2021-03-07 -
InaccurateVaccines are safe and aren’t associated with autoimmune disease, contrary to claim in viral video by chiropractor Steven Baker
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“Vaccines cause autoimmune disease”; COVID-19 vaccine will “change your genes”; aborted fetal tissue is in vaccines
Source: Facebook, Steven Baker, 2021-03-05 -
Flawed reasoningData from Israel showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the likelihood of dying from COVID-19; analysis in a forum post claiming the opposite is flawed
Claim:
“the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed”
Source: Children's Health Defense, GreenMedInfo, nakim.org, Haim Yativ, 2021-02-15 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines start to provide protection within two weeks of the first dose, with no evidence they increase the risk of infection before then
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“Now a Public Health England report confirms that infections increase during the fortnight after vaccination”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Niall McCrae, 2021-03-04 -
MisleadingSix residents in a German nursing home died from COVID-19, not from vaccines
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“25% of residents in German nursing home died after Pfizer vaccine”; a team including a soldier in uniform used force to vaccinate residents
Source: Children's Health Defense, Anonymous, 2021-03-01 -
Mostly accurateThe U.S. leads the world in number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, but not in the proportion of the population vaccinated
Claim:
“In five weeks, America has administered the most COVID vaccine shots than any other country in the world.”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-03-01
