DTaP vaccine isn’t associated with sudden infant death syndrome, whooping cough vaccine led to historic decline in cases

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Whooping cough vaccine was never necessary, DTaP vaccine is linked to sudden infant death syndrome

SOURCE: Jaclyn Simone, Instagram

Published: 07 Mar 2024

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Vaccines, treatments reduced public health threat posed by COVID-19, explaining different approach in 2024 compared to 2020

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COVID-19 has been like the flu since the beginning of the pandemic

SOURCE: Instagram Users, Instagram

Published: 07 Mar 2024

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Childhood vaccine ingredients are safe in the amount present in vaccines; cells, animal products, and viruses aren’t part of these ingredients

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Childhood vaccines contain “mixed up toxins” including formaldehyde, aluminum, aborted fetal DNA, fetal bovine serum, monkey kidney cells, mercury, pig circoviruses

SOURCE: Social media user, Instagram

Published: 07 Mar 2024

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Health risks associated with pesticide chlormequat on oat- and wheat-based food products require further investigation

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Chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats may cause infertility and delayed puberty

SOURCE: Shannon Thaler, New York Post

Published: 06 Mar 2024

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Tennessee House Bill HB1894 isn’t evidence that vaccines are present in food at grocery stores; edible vaccines remain hypothetical for now

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Researchers have “already perfected the ability to put human vaccines” into certain foods “right now”; grocery vegetables might contain human vaccines

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok

Published: 01 Mar 2024

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

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“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

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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

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“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

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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

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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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