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The COVID-19 vaccines protect people from severe COVID-19 and don’t weaken the immune system
Claim:
“Worldwide Data suggests Fully Vaccinated [people] are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome”
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Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2022-01-22 -
InaccurateThe CDC hasn’t classified monkeypox as airborne; transmission is typically through sustained physical contact
Claim:
CDC has now classified [monkeypox] as airborne and anybody within 15 ft can catch it; [it] is now classified as a form of herpes [...] lasts 2-4 months [and] can lead to being paralyzed
Source: Fathers Matter, Anonymous, 2022-08-04 -
InaccurateInaccurate clickbait headline in Forbes article used to promote the false claim that COVID-19 vaccines change our DNA
Claim:
Forbes article is evidence that COVID-19 vaccines change our DNA
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2021-11-30 -
IncorrectUnvaccinated people are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 in San Diego county; vaccines don’t cause COVID-19, contrary to claim by Shaun Frederikson
Claim:
“67% of the deaths are from the vaccinated”; “67% of your COVID deaths that you’re creating are from your virus that you’re putting within these people”
Source: Kusi News, Shaun Frederikson, 2022-08-17 -
InaccurateInternet meme inaccurately claims that fruit is injected with HIV-contaminated blood
Claim:
a [group] of people is injecting fruits with blood containing HIV and AIDS
Source: Flops n’ Memes, Anonymous, 2019-07-27 -
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InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines provide important benefits; SSRN preprint didn’t find COVID-19 vaccines to be “98 times worse” than the virus
Claim:
“Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus”
Source: The Florida Standard, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, Jonas Vesterberg, 2022-09-12 -
Mostly correctClimate change likely helped increase Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall, but too early to say exactly by how much
Claim:
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse.
Source: The Atlantic, Robinson Meyer, 2017-08-27 -
Mostly accurateInfants younger than 6 months had the second highest COVID-associated hospitalization rate for most of the pandemic
Claim:
“Babies under 6 months have the second highest hospitalization rate after the elderly”
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2025-02-06