Misleading
Misleading claims linking the spread of Omicron variant to vaccinated people rely on partial data and are unsubstantiated
Claim:
'Omicron COVID Variant Found ONLY in Fully Vaccinated'
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Source: Gateway Pundit, Bill Hennessy, 2021-11-26 -
Unsupported
Claim that the COVID-19 vaccine is riskier than the disease for children is based on an economist’s incorrect calculation of the metric “number needed to vaccinate”
Claim:
“more children will die from the vaccine than will die from COVID in the first place and there’s proof”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Substack, Toby Rogers, 2021-11-01 -
Misleading
Claim that previously infected people don’t transmit COVID-19 is unsupported, originates from misinterpretation of CDC’s FOIA response
Claim:
Previously infected individuals who get reinfected don’t transmit the virus to others; previous infection provides “better protection” than vaccination and this immunity “does not wane”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Substack, Aaron Siri, Cristina Laila, 2021-11-11 -
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No evidence that the fall in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia is linked to the use of ivermectin
Claim:
Ivermectin played a role on the steep decline of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia
Source: Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, 2021-10-09 -
Unsupported
No evidence suggests a causal link between ivermectin recommendation and the decline of COVID-19 cases in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
Claim:
'The most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID-19 free after promoting widespread use of the safe proven medicine'
Source: Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, Jim Hoft, Pearson Sharp, 2021-10-02 -
Inaccurate
PCR tests on vaccinated and unvaccinated people are evaluated using the same criteria; the CDC didn’t change criteria for detecting infection in vaccinated people, as alleged in OffGuardian article
Claim:
The U.S. CDC is “lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected ‘breakthrough infections’” to decrease the number of officially recorded cases
Source: Zero Hedge, Gateway Pundit, OffGuardian, Kit Knightly, 2021-05-18 -
No data available to suggest a link between India’s reduction of COVID-19 cases and the use of ivermectin
Claim:
“Coronavirus cases are plummeting in India thanks to new rules that promote Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine”; it is a “now-indisputable fact that [ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine] essentially kill COVID-19 within hours or days”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, 2021-05-17 -
Inaccurate
U.S. CDC director didn’t state that COVID-19 deaths were over-counted; her statements about deaths among vaccine breakthrough cases were misinterpreted
Claim:
CDC director admits that COVID-19 deaths were over-counted
Source: Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, 2021-05-17 -
Misleading
COVID-19 vaccines start to provide protection within two weeks of the first dose, with no evidence they increase the risk of infection before then
Claim:
“Now a Public Health England report confirms that infections increase during the fortnight after vaccination”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Niall McCrae, 2021-03-04 -
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
