Unsupported Health Posted on: 2021-12-09 Unsupported claim about COVID-19 vaccines, anti-spike antibodies, and myocarditis misrepresented conclusions from a New England Journal of Medicine article Claim: “antibodies that people produce against the coronavirus spike protein may lead to myocarditis” Source: Gateway Pundit, Alex Berenson, Jim Hoft, 2021-11-26
Flawed reasoning Health Posted on: 2021-11-11 Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians Claim: “Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97% after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID” Source: Il Tempo, Summit.news, Zero Hedge, Paul Joseph Watson, 2021-11-04
Health Posted on: 2021-11-11 Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians Claim: “Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97% after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID” Source: Summit.news, Zero Hedge, Il Tempo, Paul Joseph Watson, 2021-11-04
Flawed reasoning Health Posted on: 2021-11-02 Social media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die Claim: “they are needing to change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated” “40% of deaths from C19 last week [...] were fully vaccinated, [...] that’s a jump of 51.2%” Source: Instagram, Twitter/X, Elijah Schaffer, 2021-10-23
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2021-10-19 Vaccines are highly effective against COVID-19, but unvaccinated people can still endanger vaccinated people, contrary to Tucker Carlson’s claim on Fox News Claim: “If you are vaccinated against COVID-19, you face no conceivable danger whatsoever from people who have not been vaccinated”; many unvaccinated people “have natural immunity and are less likely to get sick than a vaccinated person from COVID” Source: Fox News, Tucker Carlson, 2021-09-24
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-09-28 FDA experts support COVID-19 vaccines, didn’t author unsupported allegations of vaccine-caused deaths Claim: 'FDA experts reveal the Covid-19 Vaccines are killing at least 2 people for every 1 life they save' Source: The Exposé, Steve Kirsch, 2021-09-18
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-08-13 Compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated individuals are more protected against the Delta variant Claim: “the CDC now admits that being ‘fully vaccinated’ does not actually fight the ‘delta variant,’ but instead contributes to more infections” Source: Natural News, Ethan A. Huff, 2021-07-29
Misleading Health Posted on: 2021-08-03 Vaccinated people are much more protected from COVID-19 than unvaccinated individuals; the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks Claim: Vaccinated people can still get COVID-19, spread COVID-19, die from COVID-19, and could even die from the vaccine Source: Instagram, Instagram user, 2021-07-26
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-07-24 The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.K. are among unvaccinated people Claim: “60% of people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in England have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine” Source: Disclose.tv, Anonymous, 2021-07-19
Flawed reasoning Health Posted on: 2021-07-12 Preliminary data indicate that COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of pregnancy-related adverse outcomes Claim: “82% miscarriage rate among women who got the [COVID-19 vaccine] between 30 days and 20 weeks pregnant.” Source: Instagram, Ian Smith, 2021-07-06