Misleading
Evidence shows Tdap booster in pregnant women reduces the risk of whooping cough in infants
Claim:
The Tdap shot, which is supposed to protect newborns from whooping cough, doesn't actually prevent it. It just puts newborns more at risk.
Articles tagged with
Vaccine
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-04-23 -
UnsupportedModified RNA in COVID-19 vaccines isn’t linked to cancer development
Claim:
A review “has found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development”
Source: The Highwire, America's Frontline Doctors, Social media users, 2024-04-16 -
UnsupportedCurrent evidence shows COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t increase risk of sudden cardiac death
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“COVID-19 vaccinations affect your risk” of sudden cardiac death
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-04-13 -
UnsupportedVirologist 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 -
Flawed reasoningCountry-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
Claim:
“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”
Source: Facebook, Sharyl Attkisson, 2024-04-01 -
MisleadingFebrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
Claim:
“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 -
IncorrectClaim that the HPV vaccine increases risk of cervical cancer misleads by cherry-picking data from FDA document
Claim:
HPV vaccine increases the risk of developing cervical cancer
Source: Instagram, Pierre Kory, 2024-03-27 -
Misleading2019 report by TV host Sharyl Attkisson exaggerates one expert’s opinion in court case to claim vaccines cause autism
Claim:
Government silenced “top expert witness” who denied the vaccine-autism link in court and changed opinion; his testimony could have changed the court’s decision
Source: Full Measure, Sharyl Attkisson, 2019-01-06 -
Are claims linking recent U.S. trends in cancer diagnoses to COVID-19 vaccines plausible? A look at the available data
Since it takes several years to gather, verify, and consolidate cancer data at the national level, there’s no real-time way to monitor national cancer trends. Medical experts have also explained that there is no plausible mechanism or data that connect COVID-19 vaccines to cancer.
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Flawed reasoningSteve Kirsch promotes flawed study making false claim about COVID-19 vaccines and cancer risk
Claim:
“Pathologist reports a stunning 52% increase in cancer risk for ages 15-59 who were vaxxed”
Source: Twitter, Substack, Instagram, Ivana Pavic, Steve Kirsch, 2024-03-05
