Misleading
Did the CIA conclude that SARS-CoV-2 came from a Chinese lab? Beware of misleading headlines in the Daily Mail and elsewhere
Claim:
“CIA now says Covid DID come from Chinese lab”
Articles tagged with
SARS-CoV-2
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Source: Daily Mail, Joe Hutchison, 2025-01-25 -
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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 -
Incorrect
Financial analyst David Martin misrepresents studies and patent applications to promote the baseless claim that SARS-CoV-2 was developed as a bioweapon
Claim:
“SARS is the research developed by humans, weaponizing a life system model to actually attack human beings”
Source: International COVID-19 Summit III, David Martin, 2023-05-03 -
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 -
Inaccurate
Unsubstantiated claims by Michael Palmer and Sucharit Bhakdi don’t demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccines harm organs
Claim:
mRNA vaccines cause “vascular and organ damage” that can lead to death
Source: Doctors for COVID Ethics, Michael Palmer, Sucharit Bhakdi, 2022-08-29 -
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Justin Bieber’s facial paralysis is caused by a viral infection; no evidence that COVID-19 vaccine played a role
Claim:
Ramsay Hunt syndrome that caused Justin Bieber’s facial paralysis is linked to the COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Substack, Social media users, Steve Kirsch, 2022-06-10 -
Incorrect
Scientific evidence shows that mask-wearing is effective at limiting community transmission; claims that face masks increase mortality are based on flawed correlation studies
Claim:
“Countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage”; “Mask Mandates [are] Associated With Increased Covid Death Rate”
Source: The National Pulse, Townhall Media, Zacharias Foegen, 2022-06-05 -
Incorrect
Monkeypox outbreak triggers conspiracy theories on social media claiming that it was planned or incorrectly linking it to COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
Monkeypox is caused by COVID-19 vaccines; a 2021 tabletop exercise portraying a monkeypox pandemic is evidence that global leaders planned the outbreak; the monkeypox vaccine was “ready” before the outbreak
Source: Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Social media users, 2022-05-13 -
Misleading
The benefits of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and other complications outweigh the risk of myocarditis, which is higher after COVID-19 itself
Claim:
“they were not able to find a single healthy child in america that died from COVID-19 […] but one in every 2700 people are getting myocarditis”; “athletes are collapsing on playing fields as for myocarditis and it's from the vaccines”; Moderna patent filed in 2019 is linked to the pandemic
Source: This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-12-09 -
Inaccurate
Multiple studies show that COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause pregnancy or fertility problems, despite widespread claims on social media
Claim:
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines accumulate in the ovaries, change menstrual cycles, and lead the immune system to mount “an immune response to their own placental protein”
Source: The Epoch Times, James Thorp, Michael Yeadon, 2022-05-27
