Inaccurate
Studies show that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks; preprint claiming to show otherwise is flawed
Claim:
“Covid Vaccines More Likely to Put You in Hospital Than Keep You Out”
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Source: Daily Sceptic, Will Jones, 2022-06-22 -
IncorrectChildren under six are at a much higher risk of hepatitis B-related complications than adults; vaccination is very safe and effective at preventing infection and disease
Claim:
“If you don't have hepatitis B then your baby's not going to have hepatitis B”; “there's 16 times the amount of aluminum that the FDA says can poison a baby”
Source: The Liz Wheeler Show, Liz Wheeler, 2022-03-23 -
IncorrectCancer is caused by mutations, not the body’s acidity; eating alkaline foods can’t alter the body’s pH to prevent or treat cancer
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Cancer occurs when “your body is full of acidity”; alkalizing your body prevents cancer
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2022-07-23 -
UnsupportedClaims that flu cases are used to inflate COVID-19 case counts are misleading, based on inaccurate numbers
Claim:
“Flu cases down by 95%” between 2019 and 2020 for the weeks 40 to 41; flu is being diagnosed as COVID-19, leading to fewer flu cases being recorded
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-10-18 -
InaccurateNo, a court didn’t rule that the FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19
Claim:
Court rules FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19; FDA lost lawsuit, proving ivermectin is effective against COVID-19
Source: Gateway Pundit, Twitter, Vigilant Fox, Jim Hoft, Pierre Kory, Roger O'Handley, 2024-03-22 -
Inaccurate
Studies show that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks; preprint claiming to show otherwise is flawed
Claim:
“Covid Vaccines More Likely to Put You in Hospital Than Keep You Out”
Source: Daily Sceptic, Will Jones, 2022-06-22 -
IncorrectVaccines are highly effective against COVID-19, but unvaccinated people can still endanger vaccinated people, contrary to Tucker Carlson’s claim on Fox News
Claim:
“If you are vaccinated against COVID-19, you face no conceivable danger whatsoever from people who have not been vaccinated”; many unvaccinated people “have natural immunity and are less likely to get sick than a vaccinated person from COVID”
Source: Fox News, Tucker Carlson, 2021-09-24 -
Mostly accurateStudy brings new, but not conclusive, evidence on the comparative effectiveness of infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity
Claim:
The study by Rössner et al. “add[ed] further evidence for the usefulness of vaccines and their clear advantage over natural immunity”
Source: Ars Technica, Beth Mole, 2022-03-24 -
n/aNeutralTelegraph article describing the hypothesis that face masks can variolate a population receives mixed reviews on its scientific accuracy
…of the Telegraph article is misleading. In the NEJM article, the authors suggested that wearing a mask reduces the exposure to the viral load, but they didn’t confirm or mention…
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COVID-19 vaccines can enhance protective immunity in previously infected people
Claim:
“Individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection do not get additional benefits from vaccination”
Source: Medical News, Sanchari Sinha Dutta, 2021-06-08