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Neurological adverse events are very rare after COVID-19 vaccination and less frequent than after SARS-CoV-2 infection
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A study shows that “COVID vaccines could be causing ‘long-term brain damage’”
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Source: Leading Report, Anonymous, 2023-05-10 -
InaccurateNature Biotechnology study misrepresented in social media posts claiming “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
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Nature study shows “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
Source: Facebook, X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-01-15 -
MisleadingFebrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
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“FDA admits” that “young children are at a ‘significantly elevated’ risk of seizure after taking the COVID-19 vaccine”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Ben Kew, 2024-03-24 -
InaccuratePCR tests on vaccinated and unvaccinated people are evaluated using the same criteria; the CDC didn’t change criteria for detecting infection in vaccinated people, as alleged in OffGuardian article
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The U.S. CDC is “lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected ‘breakthrough infections’” to decrease the number of officially recorded cases
Source: Gateway Pundit, OffGuardian, Zero Hedge, Kit Knightly, 2021-05-18 -
UnsupportedStudy on vaccinated and unvaccinated children used a dubious metric for comparing disease incidence in both groups
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“vaccinated children appear to be significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated”
Source: Collective Evolution, Children's Health Defense, James Lyons-Weiler, Paul Thomas, 2020-11-22 -
Misleading2014 study by Dyall et al. is an in vitro study; clinical trials showed hydroxychloroquine is ineffective against COVID-19 in people
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Federal agencies already knew that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine “were very likely to be effective against COVID-19” based on 2014 paper
Source: The Epoch Times, Meryl Nass, 2022-10-31 -
MisleadingFrequency of deaths in elderly individuals after COVID-19 vaccination wasn’t higher than the frequency in those who weren’t vaccinated
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“Aaron’s tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of COVID vaccines.”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-01-22 -
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IncorrectThere is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations cause infertility or pregnancy complications
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"The EMA admits COVID-19 vaccination causes infertility"
Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2023-05-30 -
IncorrectAnti-vaccination organization spreads baseless claim that global HPV vaccination campaign will lead to “mass casualty event”
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HPV vaccines are ineffective and cause side effects including autoimmune and neurological disorders, based on VAERS reports
Source: Children's Health Defense, Brenda Baletti, 2023-11-07