No evidence COVID-19 vaccines caused rise in U.S. infant mortality for 2022 reported by the CDC, contrary to implication in Facebook meme

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COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women is connected to an increase in U.S. infant mortality rate in 2022

SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook

Published: 15 Nov 2023

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Elon Musk’s claim that ventilators killed COVID-19 patients confuses correlation with causation

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Ventilators, not COVID, killed hospitalized COVID patients

SOURCE: Elon Musk, The Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 14 Nov 2023

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Social media post inaccurately claims natural remedy of garlic, onions, thyme, and lemon can replace the flu shot

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A soup made of garlic, onions, thyme, and lemon can replace the flu shot and cure other illnesses such as the common cold and norovirus

SOURCE: Anonymous, Healthy Holistic Living

Published: 14 Nov 2023

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James Thorp spreads false claims that COVID-19 vaccines harm fertility, pregnancy, infant survival in The Sentinel Report interview

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“Americans are dropping dead” from COVID-19 vaccines; vaccines impair fertility, pregnancy, infant survival

SOURCE: James Thorp, The Sentinel Report

Published: 11 Nov 2023

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Peter McCullough misinterprets study on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy; the study shows that vaccines are safe for pregnant women

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“No discernible benefit of covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy”; “higher rate of neonatal and all-cause readmissions among babies born to vaccinated mothers”

SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Substack, Instagram

Published: 10 Nov 2023

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Study in Italy didn’t show COVID-19 vaccines have an “unacceptable” safety profile, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough

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Study in Italy shows nearly 1 in 3 COVID vaccine recipients have neurological side effects, indicating an “unacceptable” safety profile

SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Naveen Athrappully, Substack, The Epoch Times

Published: 08 Nov 2023

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2018 coronavirus research in NIAID Montana lab is unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, contrary to claim by Fox News’s Jesse Watters

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“Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America”

SOURCE: Jesse Watters, Facebook, Fox News

Published: 07 Nov 2023

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No cure for diabetes currently exists; Facebook posts claiming otherwise use manipulated videos of news to promote fake diabetes cure

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“New medicine normalizes blood sugar levels after the first use”

SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook

Published: 07 Nov 2023

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Residual DNA in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines is documented, isn’t associated with genome modification or cancer, contrary to claim by Robert Malone

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The more COVID-19 vaccines doses people receive, the higher the risk of getting COVID-19; vaccines contain DNA fragments that modify the genome and cause cancer

SOURCE: Robert Malone, The Charlie Kirk Show

Published: 03 Nov 2023

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Preventing deaths isn’t the sole benefit of COVID-19 vaccination, contrary to Epoch Times article

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“An accurate reporting by Pfizer would have shown equal numbers of clinical trial deaths in the vaccine and placebo groups and thus, no benefit of vaccination”

SOURCE: Megan Redshaw, The Epoch Times

Published: 31 Oct 2023

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