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Evidence suggests that political partisanship is associated with higher COVID-19 mortality rates among Republicans compared to Democrats
Claim:
“Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows”
Articles tagged with
Covid 19
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Source: NBC News, Aria Bendix, 2022-10-06 -
IncorrectCOVID-19 and influenza are different diseases caused by different viruses
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the 2.8 millions who died of COVID in 2020 can be due to the flu and pneumonia
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2022-11-01 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines have enhanced reporting requirements for vaccine safety database, so death reports cannot be simply compared to other vaccines
Claim:
“More people have been killed by the COVID vaccines in the last 20 months than all the other vaccines in the world over the last thirty years combined.”
Source: One America News Network, Pearson Sharp, 2022-11-01 -
UnsupportedJapan preprint on myocarditis used inadequate methods to suggest COVID-19 vaccines cause more myocarditis deaths
Claim:
“SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death [...] risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously”
Source: The Epoch Times, Instagram, Zachary Stieber, Stephen Hussey, 2022-10-27 -
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Japan preprint on myocarditis used inadequate methods to suggest COVID-19 vaccines cause more myocarditis deaths
Claim:
“SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death [...] risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously”
Source: Instagram, The Epoch Times, Zachary Stieber, Stephen Hussey, 2022-10-27 -
What can explain the excess mortality in the U.S. and Europe in 2022?
Understanding why this excess mortality persists can be difficult. This is because there could be many contributing factors involved, adding to complexity. But we do know that there were certain notable events in 2022 that could explain, at least in part, the persistent excess mortality. This Insight article aims to discuss these events and how they could have increased the mortality rate in the second half of 2022.
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UnsupportedPhotos of blood clots removed during embalming don’t show any link with COVID-19 vaccines; blood clotting risk is much higher after COVID-19 than vaccination
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COVID-19 vaccines are linked to an increase in abnormal blood clots observed by embalmers
Source: Twitter/X, Instagram, Matthew Horwood, 2022-10-24 -
CorrectComplete vaccine coverage in the U.S. could have prevented almost a quarter of COVID-19 deaths
Claim:
“Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination”
Source: The Washington Post, Philip Bump, 2022-04-21 -
InaccurateStudy by German researchers didn’t find significant safety concerns with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to claim by Alex Berenson
Claim:
“One in every 500 children under five years who received the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine were hospitalised with a vaccine injury”
Source: Substack, Daily Sceptic, Will Jones, Alex Berenson, 2022-10-20 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccine boosters reduce the risk of infection and hospitalization; they don’t increase the risk, contrary to claims of vaccines’ “negative efficacy”
Claim:
A study by Kaiser Permanente “shows negative efficacy of the shots against all variants within 150 days”; “the more you inject, the more you infect”
Source: Conservative Review, Daniel Horowitz, 2022-10-04
