Misleading
COVID-19 vaccines lowered excess deaths during the pandemic, contrary to headline by the Daily Telegraph
Claim:
“Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths”
Articles tagged with
Vaccine
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Source: New York Post, The Telegraph, Sarah Knapton, 2024-06-04 -
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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
Source: YouTube, The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly, 2023-09-06 -
Misleading
Very rare cases of blood clots linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are well-known and have been publicly recognized since 2021
Claim:
AstraZeneca admits for the first time that its COVID-19 vaccine can cause blood clots
Source: The Blaze, The Independent, The Washington Times, Dan Bongino, Liz Wheeler, 2024-04-28 -
Misleading
Vaccines don’t contain cells or tissues of aborted fetuses
Claim:
Some vaccines “incorporate aborted fetal tissue”
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2024-04-23 -
Inaccurate
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were tested in clinical trials, aren’t experimental
Claim:
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are experimental, “ineffective and harmful”
Source: Facebook, Peter McCullough, Sucharit Bhakdi, Chris Oyakhilome, 2024-04-26 -
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.
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-04-23 -
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Modified 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: America's Frontline Doctors, The Highwire, Social media users, 2024-04-16 -
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Current evidence shows COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t increase risk of sudden cardiac death
Claim:
“COVID-19 vaccinations affect your risk” of sudden cardiac death
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-04-13 -
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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 -
Flawed reasoning
Country-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
