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No, “HIV insertions” were not identified in the 2019 coronavirus, contrary to claims based on questionable bioinformatics study

The claim is based on a study which compared extremely short gene and protein sequences between the 2019 novel coronavirus and HIV, a practice likely to give false positives. The study’s authors also overlooked checking for potential similarities between 2019-nCoV and other organisms. As it turned out, similar regions could also be found in many other organisms, not just HIV, meaning that these similarities are not unique to 2019-nCoV and HIV.

“15% fatality rate” from coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection was based only on initial cases; infection fatality rate likely less than 3%

The 15% fatality rate from coronavirus (2019-nCoV) applied only to the initial cluster of 41 patients with confirmed infection and severe symptoms, as reported in The Lancet. Coronavirus infections can also produce mild symptoms, which likely went undetected. The mortality rate based on a group of more than 800 patients with laboratory-confirmed infection suggests that the fatality rate is closer to 3%.

Unvaccinated people died of COVID-19 at a higher rate than vaccinated people; vaccines prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths

COVID-19 vaccines effectively reduce the risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19. Epidemiological data shows that unvaccinated people have died at a higher rate from the disease, even taking into account factors such as the age of the population or the proportion of vaccinated and unvaccinated people in the population. Research estimates that hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated people who died from COVID-19 would have survived had they been vaccinated.

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine manufacturers, regulatory agencies, and governments have collaborated to produce COVID-19 vaccines. Starting with a few hundred million doses in January 2021, production increased to over 12 billion doses by the end of that same year. This increase was enabled by expanding production facilities and initiating certain components of manufacturing efforts before vaccine authorization.

No evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed

Alternative medicine practices, like naturopathy, continue to be practiced by many people today. Medical research has drawn on both petrochemicals and materials from nature, like plants. For example, the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel originates from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Another example is artemisinin, extracted from the annual mugwort, which is used to treat malaria. Aspirin, a common pain reliever, originates from willow bark.

Flawed analysis by Peter McCullough and others used to promote baseless claim that brain blood clots “112,000% more likely” after COVID-19 vaccine than flu vaccine

Since 2021, certain COVID-19 vaccines, specifically the viral vector COVID-19 vaccines, have been linked to a rare blood clotting problem known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. But COVID-19 mRNA vaccines aren’t associated with the same risk. COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at reducing the risk of severe disease and death. Getting COVID-19 is associated with a much greater risk of blood clots than getting the vaccine. On balance, the vaccines’ benefits outweigh their risks.