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InaccurateMask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
Claim:
“CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers”; CDC “admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference.”
Source: One America News Network, OANN editors, 2021-03-07 -
InaccurateVaccines are safe and aren’t associated with autoimmune disease, contrary to claim in viral video by chiropractor Steven Baker
Claim:
“Vaccines cause autoimmune disease”; COVID-19 vaccine will “change your genes”; aborted fetal tissue is in vaccines
Source: Facebook, Steven Baker, 2021-03-05 -
1.5Very highAtlantic ocean circulation system is slowing down, as accurately described in The New York Times article
“This article is well-written, and the visuals are outstanding. It is a very strong piece of science communication. That being said, there is at least one error. The author mistakenly conflates the long-term warming hole with the shorter-term North Atlantic cold anomaly. The two phenomena have very different timescales and are likely driven by different mechanisms.”
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Flawed reasoningData from Israel showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the likelihood of dying from COVID-19; analysis in a forum post claiming the opposite is flawed
Claim:
“the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed”
Source: Children's Health Defense, GreenMedInfo, nakim.org, Haim Yativ, 2021-02-15 -
MisleadingCOVID-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 -
MisleadingSix residents in a German nursing home died from COVID-19, not from vaccines
Claim:
“25% of residents in German nursing home died after Pfizer vaccine”; a team including a soldier in uniform used force to vaccinate residents
Source: Children's Health Defense, Anonymous, 2021-03-01 -
Mostly accurateThe U.S. leads the world in number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, but not in the proportion of the population vaccinated
Claim:
“In five weeks, America has administered the most COVID vaccine shots than any other country in the world.”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-03-01 -
MisleadingYes, COVID-19 vaccines will help us safely resume normal activities like going to restaurants and meeting people, once enough people are vaccinated for herd immunity
Claim:
The COVID-19 vaccines won’t let us stop mask-wearing, physical distancing and restaurants, pubs, and cinemas still remain closed, so why vaccinate?
Source: Facebook, Telegram, Facebook users, 2021-01-20 -
InaccurateThe CDC licences vaccine technology, but isn’t a vaccine company; the CDC doesn’t sell vaccines, it buys and distributes vaccines free of charge
Claim:
“The CDC is not an independent agency. It is a vaccine company […] The CDC owns over 20 vaccine patents. It sells about $4.6 billion of vaccines every year”.
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-02-19
