Misleading Health Posted on: 2022-03-23 Fox News article listing alleged mistakes in COVID-19 public health response mixes accurate information with unsubstantiated claims Claim: Natural immunity protects better than vaccination; “the mortality risk of an un-boosted person under age 30 was zero”; cloth face masks, school closures had zero benefits for children and some harm Source: Fox News, Marty Makary, 2022-03-16
Misleading Health Posted on: 2022-03-11 Pfizer’s confidential document shows adverse events reported following vaccination; it doesn’t demonstrate that the vaccine caused the events or is unsafe Claim: Safety surveillance data in the Pfizer’s document shows harmful effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Source: Children's Health Defense, The Liz Wheeler Show, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, John Campbell, Liz Wheeler, Social media users, 2022-03-03
Misleading Health Posted on: 2022-02-25 CDC’s updated developmental milestone checklists don’t mean that standards for children’s development are lowered; they signal a change in the surveillance strategy Claim: The CDC “lowered the bar” for developmental milestones instead of acknowledging the effects of COVID-19 restrictions in children Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Gateway Pundit, Social media users, Jim Hoft, 2022-02-18
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2022-02-17 Alleged spikes in medical conditions among the military after COVID-19 vaccine rollout are based on faulty data due to a database glitch Claim: In 2021, cases of pregnancy and fertility issues, cancer, neurological issues, and heart disease spiked after COVID-19 vaccination Source: Instagram, Rumble, Facebook, Thomas Renz, 2022-01-24
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2022-01-26 Robert Malone made multiple misleading or unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 and vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast Claim: the COVID-19 vaccines are experimental and ineffective; “natural immunity is superior to the vaccine induced immunity”; vaccine-induced spike protein is dangerous, causes serious side effects; “Omicron is a mild variant. It is absolutely able to escape prior vaccination” Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Robert Malone, 2021-12-31
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2022-01-10 Robert Malone’s statements on The Dana Show about vaccine safety and virus variants are inaccurate and unsupported Claim: Booster COVID-19 vaccine doses can “shut down the immune response”; heart damage following vaccination is “quite frequent”; “many of these [SARS-CoV-2] mutations are being driven by the evolutionary selection caused by the vaccines” Source: The Dana Show, Robert Malone, 2021-12-09
Misleading Health Posted on: 2021-12-03 Misleading claims linking the spread of Omicron variant to vaccinated people rely on partial data and are unsubstantiated Claim: 'Omicron COVID Variant Found ONLY in Fully Vaccinated' Source: Gateway Pundit, Bill Hennessy, 2021-11-26
Misleading Health Posted on: 2021-11-24 Claim that previously infected people don’t transmit COVID-19 is unsupported, originates from misinterpretation of CDC’s FOIA response Claim: Previously infected individuals who get reinfected don’t transmit the virus to others; previous infection provides “better protection” than vaccination and this immunity “does not wane” Source: Gateway Pundit, Substack, Aaron Siri, Cristina Laila, 2021-11-11
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-11-12 Tromethamine in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children acts to improve the stability of the vaccine; it isn’t in the vaccine as a heart medication Claim: The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children contains tromethamine, “a heart attack medication” with “a lot of potentially serious side effects” Source: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Social media users, 2021-10-29
Misleading Health Posted on: 2021-11-05 No evidence suggests that Pfizer’s smoking cessation medication Chantix increases the risk of cancer; recall of this product is irrelevant to the safety of COVID-19 vaccines Claim: It “took 15 years to uncover” Chantix’s carcinogenic effects; there are reasons for being “skeptical of something that hasn’t even been established/approved for a full 12 months” Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2021-09-15