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Evidence so far doesn’t indicate an association between COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune diseases
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Articles tagged with
Immunity
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Source: YouTube, The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly, 2023-09-06 -
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Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID”
Source: Kunstlercast, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2024-03-31 -
Misleading
Headlines overlook risk of COVID-19 by claiming Estonia study shows natural immunity is superior to vaccination
Claim:
“Natural Immunity Better Than Protection From COVID-19 Vaccination, researchers in Estonia found”
Source: The Epoch Times, Zachary Stieber, 2023-11-23 -
Misleading
Marty Makary relies on misleading and unsubstantiated claims to accuse U.S. government of spreading misinformation
Claim:
The U.S. government spread misinformation that vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity, that masks were effective, that myocarditis was more common after the infection than the vaccine
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Marty Makary, 2023-10-16 -
Inaccurate
Vaccination recruits both the innate and adaptive immune system; COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children
Claim:
“clearly [COVID-19] vaccines are dangerous for kids”, they cause myocarditis; children are protected from COVID-19 by innate immunity which is bypassed by vaccination
Source: Instagram, Joseph Mercola, Michelle Perro, 2023-03-13 -
Misleading
Viral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation
Claim:
We were lied about “COVID-19 numbers”, treatments, natural immunity, and the origin of the virus; COVID-19 vaccines and control measures “didn’t work”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2023-02-28 -
Misleading
Infection-induced immunity is more unpredictable and poses a higher risk than vaccine-induced immunity
Claim:
“natural immunity provides superior protection to experimental vaccines; “They lied and said Natural Immunity wasn’t better than [vaccine]-induced immunity”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Children's Health Defense, Social media users, 2023-02-17 -
Inaccurate
Vaccination isn’t equal to parasitic infection; COVID-19 mRNA vaccines don’t hamper the production of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
Claim:
“ALL vaccines, including the seasonal flu shot, contain parasites”, mRNA vaccines reduce the amount of anti-spike antibodies
Source: Exposing satanic science, Anonymous, 2022-11-10 -
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Study brings new, but not conclusive, evidence on the comparative effectiveness of infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity
Claim:
The study by Rössner et al. “add[ed] further evidence for the usefulness of vaccines and their clear advantage over natural immunity”
Source: Ars Technica, Beth Mole, 2022-03-24
