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Contrary to claims in a LifeSiteNews article, COVID-19 vaccination makes it less likely for someone to get COVID-19
Claim:
If you get the Pfizer vax, you’re more likely to get COVID
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Source: LifeSite News, Patrick Delaney, 2021-09-30 -
InaccurateStudy led by UCSF researchers didn’t study vaccinated people’s susceptibility to variants; it found vaccine breakthrough cases to be a minority of infections
Claim:
“The California study finds that vaccinated individuals are more susceptible to COVID variant infections than unvaccinated”
Source: The Conservative Treehouse, Anonymous, 2021-10-03 -
InaccurateArticle by OffGuardian, ZeroHedge claiming to list 30 facts about COVID-19 contains multiple inaccurate and misleading statements
Claim:
“There has been NO unusual excess mortality” related to COVID; “Lockdowns do not prevent the spread of disease”; “Masks don’t work”; “PCR tests were not designed to diagnose illness”
Source: Zero Hedge, OffGuardian, Kit Knightly, 2021-09-22 -
InaccurateContrary to claims on social media, people who received a COVID-19 vaccine can donate blood and other blood products, including convalescent plasma
Claim:
“The Red Cross says anyone who has received a COVID-19 vaccine cannot donate convalescent plasma”; “the vaccine wipes out these antibodies [against SARS-CoV-2]”
Source: TikTok, TikTok user, 2021-09-20 -
1.3HighRain fell on Greenland summit for the first time on record, as accurately reported by CNN
“The article is highly factual. One issue that we have is the lack of data over the Greenland Ice Sheet (both spatially and temporally). Thus some of the claims, although backed by the limited data, are valid; we can’t be sure that we may have missed similar outliers. For example, we can’t be sure that a rain event of the type described did not occur in the period before observations were made or may have occurred somewhere on the ice sheet before in a region without any observations.”
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InaccurateFDA experts support COVID-19 vaccines, didn’t author unsupported allegations of vaccine-caused deaths
Claim:
'FDA experts reveal the Covid-19 Vaccines are killing at least 2 people for every 1 life they save'
Source: The Exposé, Steve Kirsch, 2021-09-18 -
UnsupportedNo scientific evidence for claim by pathologist Ryan Cole that COVID-19 vaccines weaken the immune system
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COVID-19 vaccines weaken the immune system; “Idaho doctor reports a ‘20 times increase’ of cancer in vaccinated patients”
Source: LifeSiteNews, Ryan Cole, 2021-09-13 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 treatments can improve a patient’s survival and recovery, but don’t replace the individual and community benefits of vaccination
Claim:
“Now the vaccines are no longer working“; “the vaccine never stopped transmission“; “earlier-vaccinated people experience a complete waning of the injection-induced antibodies”; antibody therapy, “the one option that works”, is blocked by the government
Source: The Blaze, Daniel Horowitz, 2021-09-13 -
InaccurateA 2014 study showed that the US Corn Belt is one of the biggest primary producers on Earth in July, but didn’t show that it produces more oxygen than the Amazon
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"the US corn crop, at its peak, produces 40% more oxygen than the Amazon rainforest."
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-09-05 -
MisleadingPregnancy tests don’t provide a conclusive diagnosis for testicular cancer; not all testicular cancers produce the hormone detected by pregnancy tests
Claim:
For men, a positive pregnancy test equals testicular cancer
Source: Facebook, The Adley Show, 2021-09-15
