Misleading
Clinical trials showed that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe; its side effects are mostly mild
Claim:
80% of people taking the Moderna vaccine had significant side effects; children in Sudan got polio from the polio vaccine
Articles tagged with
Covid 19
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Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, 2021-02-10 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines are critical for controlling the pandemic; vaccines still offer partial protection against new variants of the virus
Claim:
COVID-19 mass vaccination will select for more virulent variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, which will escape vaccine-induced immunity and cause more severe disease
Source: Children's Health Defense, The Highwire, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2021-03-06 -
InaccurateJamaica already recorded tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases as of March 2021, contrary to viral meme suggesting that smoking cannabis prevents infections
Claim:
“Jamaica has not recorded any cases of the coronavirus”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-03-19 -
InaccurateMessenger RNA is essential for life and a normal component of cells; study by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering is unrelated to RNA vaccines
Claim:
“Scientists at Sloan Kettering discover mRNA inactivates tumor-suppressing proteins, meaning it can promote cancer”
Source: Natural News, S.D. Wells, 2021-03-02 -
InaccurateNo aborted fetal tissue or cells in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
Claim:
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has aborted fetal tissue from aborted babies from the retina as well as from kidney cells”
Source: Instagram, Rizza Islam, 2021-03-14 -
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 -
InaccurateMask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
Claim:
“CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers”; CDC “admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference.”
Source: One America News Network, OANN editors, 2021-03-07 -
InaccurateVaccines are safe and aren’t associated with autoimmune disease, contrary to claim in viral video by chiropractor Steven Baker
Claim:
“Vaccines cause autoimmune disease”; COVID-19 vaccine will “change your genes”; aborted fetal tissue is in vaccines
Source: Facebook, Steven Baker, 2021-03-05 -
Flawed reasoningData from Israel showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the likelihood of dying from COVID-19; analysis in a forum post claiming the opposite is flawed
Claim:
“the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed”
Source: Children's Health Defense, GreenMedInfo, nakim.org, Haim Yativ, 2021-02-15 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines start to provide protection within two weeks of the first dose, with no evidence they increase the risk of infection before then
Claim:
“Now a Public Health England report confirms that infections increase during the fortnight after vaccination”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Niall McCrae, 2021-03-04
