Inaccurate
Claim that 79.4% of SIDS deaths occurred on same day as vaccination misinterprets CDC study
Claim:
“79.4% of babies who die of SIDS had a vaccine the same day”
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-03 -
InaccurateDeaths are attributed to COVID-19 according to clinical symptoms and diagnosis; deaths that occur after vaccination are systematically reported and investigated
Claim:
“If you die within 20 days of testing positive for [COVID-19][...], you’ll be counted as a COVID death.”; vaccines are systematically dismissed as a possible cause of death.
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2021-05-02 -
UnsupportedClaim by Robert F Kennedy Jr that one “vaccine injury” occurs for every 39 vaccinations is unsupported by scientific data
Claim:
Vaccine Injuries Ratio: One for Every 39 Vaccines Administered
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2019-10-10 -
AccurateThe U.S. sees record numbers of daily new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in November 2020
Claim:
“There were 144,305 newly reported COVID-19 cases in the United States today. This beats the previous record of 133,819 cases reported on Monday, November 9. This is the 8th day in a row with over 100,000 cases reported.”
Source: NBC News, Twitter/X, Ali Velshi, 2020-11-11 -
UnsupportedGerman study did not find wearing face masks harms children; study wasn’t designed to accurately test these effects
Claim:
”A German study involving over 25,000 children reveals that major negative impacts on the physical, psychological, and behavioral health of children may be far more widespread than reported”
Source: GreenMedInfo, Anonymous, 2020-01-02 -
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InaccurateThe benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks; vaccinated children don’t die at a higher rate compared to unvaccinated children
Claim:
1 in 1,000 children vaccinated against COVID-19 dies
Source: Instagram, Adrian Norman, 2021-10-02 -
MisleadingPeople who received the COVID-19 vaccine aren’t more likely to develop facial paralysis than people who didn’t receive the vaccine
Claim:
“13 Israelis suffer FACIAL PARALYSIS after taking Pfizer Covid jab”
Source: RT (Russia Today), Anonymous, 2021-01-16 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 RNA vaccines are safe, cannot modify human DNA; death rate in vaccinated people isn’t higher than in unvaccinated people
Claim:
“The protein then can bind to your DNA and irreversibly change it”; “[It] has several different type of lipids on it that have never been injected into human beings before”; “We could be looking at right now as many as 12,000 deaths”
Source: Daystar, Sherri Tenpenny, 2021-03-11 -
UnsupportedInsufficient evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual irregularities in vaccinated women; vaccinated people aren’t making unvaccinated people ill
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual problems in women; vaccinated people are causing health problems in unvaccinated people around them
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, Christiane Northrup, 2021-04-11