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Bananas may be healthy, but consuming them won’t treat gastrointestinal diseases nor limit the replication of HIV
Claim:
“Bananas are a powerful antiviral food—so powerful that they have the capacity to repel growth of the retrovirus HIV“
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Source: Medical Medium, Anthony William, 2021-02-21 -
InaccuratePregnant women can decide whether to receive the COVID-19 vaccine; safety monitoring suggests that COVID-19 vaccines don’t pose any specific risk for pregnant women
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“Health officials push pregnant women to get covid shots, despite known risks”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Anonymous, 2021-02-23 -
-2Very lowMisleading Wall Street Journal opinion piece makes the unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. will have herd immunity by April 2021
“The article’s claim that the U.S. is near herd immunity rests on two numbers: 1) the detection of infections by testing (claimed to be 10 – 25 percent) and 2) the infection fatality rate (claimed to be 0.23 percent). Using the same number of deaths as the author indicates that 0.15%/0.6% = 25% of the U.S. population has been infected, rather than two-thirds as the author claims. Thus, the author’s argument that 55 – 66 percent of the U.S. population has already been infected and has immunity is not supported by available data.”
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Mostly accurateMore evidence needed for the claim that vitamin D supplements reduce risk of COVID-19 infection
Claim:
“Habitual use of vitamin D supplements was associated with a 34% lower risk of COVID-19 infection”; “This is an observational study so causation cannot be established”
Source: Instagram, Rhonda Patrick, 2021-02-04 -
MisleadingThe number of new COVID-19 cases fell and daily vaccination increased in early 2021, but no indication that it was due to U.S. president Biden taking office
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COVID-19 cases are “down by 50%” and “daily vaccinations have increased by 85%” since “Biden took office”
Source: Occupy Democrats, Anonymous, 2021-02-16 -
UnsupportedCOVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the incidence of poor outcomes during pregnancy, according to current safety data on COVID-19 vaccines
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COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Facebook users, 2021-02-06 -
MisleadingMisleading to compare the safety of COVID-19 and flu vaccines based solely on VAERS reports; VAERS reports alone cannot demonstrate that a vaccine caused an adverse event
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One person is 300 to 900 times “more likely to die” after getting the COVID-19 vaccine than the flu vaccine; “Adverse events are widely underreported”
Source: Instagram, Twitter/X, Alex Berenson, 2021-02-14 -
InaccurateThe CDC didn’t introduce a “major rule change” to inflate COVID-19 deaths; there have been more than 490,000 excess deaths in the U.S. to date
Claim:
“CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent”; “the NVSS COVID-19 Alert No. 2 [deemphasized] underlying causes of death [...] by recording them in Part II rather than Part I of death certificates [...] This was a major rule change [...] from the 2003 guidance on certification of death
Source: Gateway Pundit, Patty McMurray, 2021-02-09 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines protect individuals from developing the disease and are necessary tools to end the pandemic along with physical distancing measures
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There is no reason to get COVID-19 vaccines because vaccinated people can still get sick and are still required to wear masks
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-02-08 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use prevent the disease and are generally safe based on rigorous clinical trials and ongoing monitoring
Claim:
“No one can possibly know if the [COVID-19] vaccine is safe and effective because the trial is still underway; “Thousands of people who had the vaccine have died or been seriously injured by it”
Source: Charlie Ward, Vernon Coleman, 2021-02-02
