Misleading
Vaccines, treatments reduced public health threat posed by COVID-19, explaining different approach in 2024 compared to 2020
Claim:
COVID-19 has been like the flu since the beginning of the pandemic
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Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2024-03-02 -
Inaccurate
Childhood vaccine ingredients are safe in the amount present in vaccines; cells, animal products, and viruses aren’t part of these ingredients
Claim:
Childhood vaccines contain “mixed up toxins” including formaldehyde, aluminum, aborted fetal DNA, fetal bovine serum, monkey kidney cells, mercury, pig circoviruses
Source: Instagram, Social media user, 2024-03-03 -
Misleading
Tennessee House Bill HB1894 isn’t evidence that vaccines are present in food at grocery stores; edible vaccines remain hypothetical for now
Claim:
Researchers have “already perfected the ability to put human vaccines” into certain foods “right now”; grocery vegetables might contain human vaccines
Source: Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-21 -
Inaccurate
Various childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination
Claim:
“No childhood vaccine has ever been through a double blind placebo controlled trial.”
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-02-24 -
Incorrect
The level of aluminum in childhood vaccines is safe, even for babies
Claim:
Per FDA guidelines, babies are too small to safely handle the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-18 -
Incorrect
France passed a law targeting health-threatening psychological manipulation and influence, but didn’t criminalize criticism of mRNA vaccines
Claim:
“France will send citizens to jail if they question mRNA vaccines”; “It’s now a crime in France to oppose the mRNA vax”
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-16 -
Misleading
The American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation
Source: Instagram, Twitter, Social media users, 2024-02-21 -
Inaccurate
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits
Claim:
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study shows that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, inadequately tested; getting vaccinated is more dangerous than getting COVID-19
Source: Instagram, Twitter, Social media users, 2024-02-19 -
Incorrect
Vaccines don’t cause autism; difference in infant mortality rates between Japan and the U.S. unrelated to childhood vaccine coverage
Claim:
Vaccines contain unhealthy levels of aluminum; Japan’s elimination of vaccines has reduced infant mortality
Source: Instagram, Social media user, 2024-02-12 -
Flawed reasoning
Epidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
Claim:
Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence
Source: Instagram, Jaclyn Simone, 2024-01-23
