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
Articles tagged with
Vaccine
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Source: The Washington Times, The Blaze, The Independent, Dan Bongino, Liz Wheeler, 2024-04-28 -
MisleadingVaccines don’t contain cells or tissues of aborted fetuses
Claim:
Some vaccines “incorporate aborted fetal tissue”
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2024-04-23 -
InaccurateCOVID-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 -
MisleadingEvidence 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 -
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: America's Frontline Doctors, The Highwire, Social media users, 2024-04-16 -
UnsupportedCurrent 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 -
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
