Bill and Melinda Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates is fully vaccinated, including against COVID-19, despite online claims to the contrary

CLAIM
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

CLAIM
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

CLAIM
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

CLAIM
“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

CLAIM
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

CLAIM
“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

CLAIM
“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

CLAIM
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

CLAIM
“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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