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Reviews of articles by: Jim Hoft

CLAIM REVIEWS

Swiss study doesn’t show that Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is dangerous for the heart, John Campbell and The Gateway Pundit exaggerated the study’s conclusions
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“1 in 35 people showed signs of heart damage after taking the Moderna COVID19 vaccine”; it is a “kill shot”; taking “this kind of risk, it’s just complete madness”

SOURCE: John Campbell, Jim Hoft, YouTube, The Gateway Pundit

Published: 08 Aug 2023

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Cleveland Clinic study didn’t find that taking more COVID-19 vaccine doses causes increased COVID-19 risk; association alone doesn’t imply causation
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“People Who Get More COVID Vaccines More Likely to Get the Virus, New Study Shows”

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, The Hill, Gateway Pundit

Published: 13 Jun 2023

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Claim that hydroxychloroquine is an effective early treatment for COVID-19 isn’t supported by evidence from clinical trials
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“The FDA hid the evidence that HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] was effective in the early treatment of the disease. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of this lie.”

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Harvey Risch, Gateway Pundit

Published: 25 Sep 2022

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COVID-19 vaccines provide important benefits; SSRN preprint didn’t find COVID-19 vaccines to be “98 times worse” than the virus
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“Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus”

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Jonas Vesterberg, Gateway Pundit, The Florida Standard

Published: 22 Sep 2022

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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
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The CDC “lowered the bar” for developmental milestones instead of acknowledging the effects of COVID-19 restrictions in children

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Social media users, Gateway Pundit, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter

Published: 25 Feb 2022

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Ivermectin study in the city of Itajaí contains several methodological weaknesses, resulting in questionable conclusions
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A preprint of an ivermectin study in the Brazilian city of Itajaí found that prophylactic ivermectin reduced COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality by half

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Daniel Horowitz, Gateway Pundit, ZeroHedge, The Blaze

Published: 18 Dec 2021

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Unsupported claim about COVID-19 vaccines, anti-spike antibodies, and myocarditis misrepresented conclusions from a New England Journal of Medicine article
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“antibodies that people produce against the coronavirus spike protein may lead to myocarditis”

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Alex Berenson, Gateway Pundit

Published: 09 Dec 2021

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No evidence that the fall in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia is linked to the use of ivermectin
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Ivermectin played a role on the steep decline of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Published: 15 Oct 2021

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No evidence suggests a causal link between ivermectin recommendation and the decline of COVID-19 cases in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
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'The most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID-19 free after promoting widespread use of the safe proven medicine'

SOURCE: Pearson Sharp, Jim Hoft, One America News Network, Gateway Pundit

Published: 12 Oct 2021

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No data available to suggest a link between India’s reduction of COVID-19 cases and the use of ivermectin
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“Coronavirus cases are plummeting in India thanks to new rules that promote Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine”; it is a “now-indisputable fact that [ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine] essentially kill COVID-19 within hours or days”

SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Published: 24 May 2021

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