COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were tested in clinical trials, aren’t experimental

CLAIM
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are experimental, “ineffective and harmful”

SOURCE: Chris Oyakhilome, Sucharit Bhakdi, Peter McCullough, Facebook

Published: 03 May 2024

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Evidence shows Tdap booster in pregnant women reduces the risk of whooping cough in infants

CLAIM
The Tdap shot, which is supposed to protect newborns from whooping cough, doesn't actually prevent it. It just puts newborns more at risk.

SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook

Published: 03 May 2024

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Modified RNA in COVID-19 vaccines isn’t linked to cancer development

CLAIM
A review “has found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development”

SOURCE: Social media users, America's Frontline Doctors

Published: 29 Apr 2024

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Eating excess salt increases the risk of high blood pressure, contrary to wellness coach’s claims

CLAIM
“Salt does not raise blood pressure”

SOURCE: Sean Christopher, Facebook

Published: 26 Apr 2024

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Current scientific evidence doesn’t demonstrate that coconut oil prevents or treats Alzheimer’s

CLAIM
“Coconut oil in your diet is a remedy for Alzheimer’s”

SOURCE: John Gray, Social media users, Facebook

Published: 25 Apr 2024

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No evidence budesonide, clarithromycin, and aspirin combination is “silver bullet” for COVID-19, contrary to Texas doctor’s claim

CLAIM
Richard Bartlett found ‘“Silver Bullet” Covid Protocol’ but was silenced

SOURCE: Richard Bartlett, Big Honker Podcast

Published: 25 Apr 2024

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Current evidence shows COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t increase risk of sudden cardiac death

CLAIM
“COVID-19 vaccinations affect your risk” of sudden cardiac death

SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Instagram

Published: 22 Apr 2024

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Video of person smoking in a pile of body bags isn’t a staging of COVID-19 victims but part of a Russian music video

CLAIM
A video showed people “preparing body bags for the evening news clip during the pandemic”

SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook

Published: 17 Apr 2024

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Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”

CLAIM
COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID”

SOURCE: KunstlerCast, Kunstlercast

Published: 15 Apr 2024

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Country-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson

CLAIM
“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”

SOURCE: Sharyl Attkisson, Facebook

Published: 15 Apr 2024

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