Various childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination

CLAIM
“No childhood vaccine has ever been through a double blind placebo controlled trial.”

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Facebook

Published: 01 Mar 2024

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The level of aluminum in childhood vaccines is safe, even for babies

CLAIM
Per FDA guidelines, babies are too small to safely handle the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines

SOURCE: Instagram Users, Instagram

Published: 28 Feb 2024

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France passed a law targeting health-threatening psychological manipulation and influence, but didn’t criminalize criticism of mRNA vaccines

CLAIM
“France will send citizens to jail if they question mRNA vaccines”; “It’s now a crime in France to oppose the mRNA vax”

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram

Published: 23 Feb 2024

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The American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim

CLAIM
COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter

Published: 23 Feb 2024

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Global COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits

CLAIM
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study shows that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, inadequately tested; getting vaccinated is more dangerous than getting COVID-19

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter

Published: 23 Feb 2024

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Vaccines don’t cause autism; difference in infant mortality rates between Japan and the U.S. unrelated to childhood vaccine coverage

CLAIM
Vaccines contain unhealthy levels of aluminum; Japan’s elimination of vaccines has reduced infant mortality

SOURCE: Social Media User, Instagram

Published: 20 Feb 2024

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Childhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens

CLAIM
Doctors are ‘injecting poison’ into babies every two months.

SOURCE: Candace Owens, Twitter

Published: 16 Feb 2024

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Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases

CLAIM
Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur

SOURCE: Matt Roeske, Cultivate Elevate

Published: 15 Feb 2024

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Claim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study

CLAIM
Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death

SOURCE: Joseph Mackinnon, The Blaze

Published: 08 Feb 2024

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Epidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work

CLAIM
Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence

SOURCE: Jaclyn Simone, Instagram

Published: 01 Feb 2024

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