Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2025-01-15 The human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been circulating for decades and isn’t a side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Claim: “Pfizer has disclosed that Human Metapneumovirus is one of the potential side effects of their mRNA vaccine” Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-06
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2025-01-10 Pfizer didn’t release a list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in 2025, contrary to allegations on social media Claim: “Pfizer just released a few days ago the side effects of the jab” ; this lists contains more than forty medical conditions that are side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-02
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2025-01-08 New study from Brazil doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of death in the long term Claim: COVID-19 vaccines had a short-term “negligible” benefit, but caused a "substantially greater risk of death”, a new study showed Source: Facebook, Patrick Flynn, 2024-12-28
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-12-28 Claim that herbs and mushrooms listed in Nicole Apelian’s book “The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies” are cures for herpes and HIV is baseless Claim: Several natural products like plants and mushrooms are a cure for herpes and HIV infection Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2024-12-17
Misleading Health Posted on: 2024-12-18 Unvaccinated people died of COVID-19 at a higher rate than vaccinated people; vaccines prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths Claim: How are "Billions of Unvaxxed people with NO Boosters [...] still alive"? Unvaccinated people should be dead. Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2024-12-08
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-12-11 COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021 Claim: It would take decades to produce enough COVID-19 to vaccinate the world population Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-01
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-12-05 Flu shots don’t contain dogs as ingredients; cell lines of canine origin are used during the manufacturing process and eliminated from the final vaccine product Claim: Dogs are an ingredient in flu shots Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-11-26
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-11-13 No evidence that lemon balm is a cure for bird flu, contrary to claim by Bryan Ardis Claim: “It’s already been proven that lemon balm [...] neutralizes and destroys all avian flu”, including H5N1 Source: The Dr Ardis Show, TikTok, Facebook, Bryan Ardis, 2024-11-03
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-11-08 Nicotine is addictive, drives tobacco dependence; nicotine patches cannot be replaced by eggplants Claim: “nicotine is not addictive”; consuming eggplants could replace nicotine patches Source: Instagram, Facebook, Bryan Ardis, 2024-10-27
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-11-05 Computational study didn’t demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccine boosters increase mortality in care homes Claim: “COVID-19 mRNA boosters directly contributed to the deaths of millions of nursing home residents worldwide” Source: The People’s Voice, Baxter Dmitry, 2024-10-20