Claim reviews
Bill and Melinda Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates is fully vaccinated, including against COVID-19, despite online claims to the contrary
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Phoebe Adele Gates is “unvaccinated, not even [for] childhood vaccines”.
SOURCE: Instagram Users, Instagram
Published: 10 Nov 2022
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2014 study by Dyall et al. is an in vitro study; clinical trials showed hydroxychloroquine is ineffective against COVID-19 in people
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Federal agencies already knew that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine “were very likely to be effective against COVID-19” based on 2014 paper
SOURCE: Meryl Nass, The Epoch Times
Published: 07 Nov 2022
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Clinical trial by Moderna found no safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccine in toddlers, contrary to claim by Joseph Ladapo
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According to Moderna themselves: Serious adverse events affected 1 in 200 toddlers. But they still concluded the mRNA vaccine was safe in children
SOURCE: Joseph Ladapo, Twitter
Published: 05 Nov 2022
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Evidence suggests that political partisanship is associated with higher COVID-19 mortality rates among Republicans compared to Democrats
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“Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows”
SOURCE: Aria Bendix, NBC News
Published: 05 Nov 2022
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COVID-19 and influenza are different diseases caused by different viruses
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the 2.8 millions who died of COVID in 2020 can be due to the flu and pneumonia
SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook
Published: 04 Nov 2022
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COVID-19 vaccines have enhanced reporting requirements for vaccine safety database, so death reports cannot be simply compared to other vaccines
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“More people have been killed by the COVID vaccines in the last 20 months than all the other vaccines in the world over the last thirty years combined.”
SOURCE: Pearson Sharp, Twitter
Published: 04 Nov 2022
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Japan preprint on myocarditis used inadequate methods to suggest COVID-19 vaccines cause more myocarditis deaths
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“SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death [...] risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously”
SOURCE: Zachary Stieber, Stephen Hussey, The Epoch Times, Instagram
Published: 03 Nov 2022
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Photos of blood clots removed during embalming don’t show any link with COVID-19 vaccines; blood clotting risk is much higher after COVID-19 than vaccination
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COVID-19 vaccines are linked to an increase in abnormal blood clots observed by embalmers
SOURCE: Matthew Horwood, Twitter, Instagram
Published: 02 Nov 2022
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Complete vaccine coverage in the U.S. could have prevented almost a quarter of COVID-19 deaths
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“Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination”
SOURCE: Philip Bump, The Washington Post
Published: 28 Oct 2022
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Study by German researchers didn’t find significant safety concerns with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to claim by Alex Berenson
CLAIM
“One in every 500 children under five years who received the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine were hospitalised with a vaccine injury”
SOURCE: Alex Berenson, Will Jones, Substack, The Daily Sceptic
Published: 24 Oct 2022
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