Claim reviews
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
VERDICT
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
VERDICT
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
VERDICT
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
VERDICT
COVID-19 vaccine boosters reduce the risk of infection and hospitalization; they don’t increase the risk, contrary to claims of vaccines’ “negative efficacy”
CLAIM
A study by Kaiser Permanente “shows negative efficacy of the shots against all variants within 150 days”; “the more you inject, the more you infect”
SOURCE: Daniel Horowitz, Conservative Review
Published: 23 Oct 2022
VERDICT
Scientific studies show that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reduces transmission; claim by Rob Roos is misleading
CLAIM
“In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission. ‘Get vaccinated for others’ was always a lie.”
SOURCE: Rob Roos, Twitter
Published: 18 Oct 2022
VERDICT
Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but evidence so far doesn’t show that diabetes causes Alzheimer’s
CLAIM
“Alzheimer’s most of the time is preventable. It’s not genetic, and it’s type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance of the brain”
SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok, Facebook
Published: 15 Oct 2022
VERDICT
Analysis by Florida Department of Health about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines contains multiple methodological problems
CLAIM
Florida study found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related death, especially in men
SOURCE: Joseph Ladapo, Fox News, Twitter
Published: 13 Oct 2022
VERDICT
Little clinical evidence supports the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C to treat cancer
CLAIM
Intravenous vitamin C specifically kills only cancer cells and not healthy cells
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, TikTok
Published: 11 Oct 2022
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