Inaccurate
Testing in general reveals infections, it doesn’t create them; COVID-19 isn’t the same as the common cold
Claim:
“If you stop testing it all goes away and people just have colds like before”
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Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2021-12-24 -
MisleadingClip of Anthony Fauci discussing potential vaccine safety concerns is from March 2020; current scientific evidence shows COVID-19 vaccines reduce risk of infection and serious illness
Claim:
“Dr. Fauci opens up the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could be making people more likely to be infected by the virus”, “a vaccine that looked good in initial safety actually made people worse”
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Social media users, 2021-12-13 -
MisleadingNo evidence suggests that Pfizer’s smoking cessation medication Chantix increases the risk of cancer; recall of this product is irrelevant to the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
It “took 15 years to uncover” Chantix’s carcinogenic effects; there are reasons for being “skeptical of something that hasn’t even been established/approved for a full 12 months”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2021-09-15 -
Flawed reasoningSocial media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die
Claim:
“they are needing to change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated” “40% of deaths from C19 last week [...] were fully vaccinated, [...] that’s a jump of 51.2%”
Source: Instagram, Twitter/X, Elijah Schaffer, 2021-10-23 -
Male sterility isn’t a proven side effect of ivermectin, contrary to claims by social media users
Claim:
Ivermectin sterilizes the majority (85%) of men that take it
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Facebook users, Twitter users, 2021-09-05 -
IncorrectA person’s decision not to vaccinate affects others, as unvaccinated people are more likely to get infected and spread COVID-19
Claim:
“the only person ‘hurting’ if I don’t get the vaccine is me. So mind your own business”
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Brenna Spencer, 2021-09-02 -
InaccurateThe development of mRNA vaccines was a collaborative effort; Robert Malone contributed to their development, but he is not their inventor
Claim:
“Dr. Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccines”
Source: Twitter/X, Robert Malone, 2026-03-04 -
InaccurateJanci Chunn Lindsay’s claims that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe are inaccurate and unsupported by scientific evidence
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines will cause blood clotting, fertility problems, and immune escape
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Janci Chunn Lindsay, 2021-04-23 -
InaccurateEUA withdrawal for CDC COVID-19 PCR test is due to the development of newer tests that help save time and resources, not because the test is faulty
Claim:
COVID-19 PCR test is inaccurate, will no longer be used; COVID-19 PCR test cannot differentiate between flu and COVID-19
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2021-07-24 -
MisleadingUnvaccinated people are more likely to die of COVID-19 because they are more vulnerable to infection and severe disease
Claim:
Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people have over 99% chance of surviving COVID-19
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Tomi Lahren, 2021-07-18
