Does this blog post prove 25,800 people have died of reactions to COVID vaccines? No, that's not true: The claim recycles an oft-rebuked misuse of the U.S. government's unverified list of vaccine reaction reports called VAERS (Vaccine Adv
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Snopes→ Nearly All COVID Deaths in US Are Now Among Unvaccinated
Deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Four British Airways Pilots Did NOT Die In One Week And There Is NO Proof Deaths Were From COVID-19 Vaccine
Did four British Airways pilots die in one week after getting the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true. Four pilots for the airline did pass away but they did not all die within one week, and there is no proof they died from a COVID-19 v
Snopes→ Claudette Regains Tropical Storm Strength After 13 Deaths
The storm was expected to move into the Atlantic Ocean, then travel near or south of Nova Scotia.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ PCR tests are reliable to detect and monitor COVID-19 infections, which are real and had caused millions of deaths worldwide
REVIEW On 10 June 2021, the podcast War Room: Pandemic, hosted by Steve Bannon, published this video interview with lawyer Reiner Fuellmich. First published on Facebook, the video was later removed, but it continued to circulate on other platforms l
Snopes→ US COVID-19 Deaths Hit 600,000, Equal to Yearly Cancer Toll
The number of lives lost is greater than the population of Baltimore or Milwaukee.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC’s VAERS ‘Reports’ Are NOT Solid Proof of Vaccine Injuries Or Deaths — Just Starting Point for CDC, FDA Investigators
Does the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) provide data or reports that prove the COVID-19 vaccine or other vaccines have caused injuries or deaths? No, that's not true: As the VAERS webpage itself repeatedly exp
Top Fact Checks→ Israel has been contaminating water in Gaza, causing the deaths of about a million children.
Polluted water has caused deaths among children in Gaza. However, there is no evidence that Israel is poisoning the water.
Full Fact - All content→ Piers Corbyn makes misleading claims about vaccine deaths
A Facebook post by Piers Corbyn claims that a Channel 4 documentary “The Anti-Vax Conspiracy” failed to highlight deaths from and adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines in the UK. But some of the points he makes are not accurate. &ld
Snopes→ Condemned Sex Offender Dies Awaiting Execution in 4 Deaths
A 74-year-old sex offender sentenced to death for killing a woman and three of her children has died on death row, California corrections officials said.
Snopes→ Study Blames Climate Change for 37% of Global Heat Deaths
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Is It True That Texas Has Reported No COVID Deaths Since Lifting Pandemic Restrictions?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/is-it-true-that-texas-has-reported Rep. Lauren Boebert claimed in a
Snopes→ Official: Multiple Deaths in Shooting at San Jose Railyard
A Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesperson said that “the suspect is confirmed deceased.”
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Is It True That Texas Has Reported No COVID Deaths Since Lifting Pandemic Restrictions?
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Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ U.S. CDC director didn’t state that COVID-19 deaths were over-counted; her statements about deaths among vaccine breakthrough cases were misinterpreted
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 600,000 deaths in the U.S. and 3.4 million deaths worldwide as of 19 May 2021. Although the excess mortality in the U.S. since March 2020 clearly demonstrates that the pandemic has caused many more deaths than
FactCheck.org→ Websites and Social Posts Misrepresent CDC Director’s Comments on Breakthrough Deaths
SciCheck Digest In a May 16 interview, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director said the agency knew of 223 breakthrough fatalities among fully vaccinated individuals, but “not all … died of COVID.” That is not an admis
Full Fact - All content→ Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 3,362 deaths in America
An Instagram post has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccines have killed 3,362 people in less than four months. This is roughly the number of deaths reported in the US following Covid-19 vaccination between December 2020 and April 2021, but there&rsq
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Deaths are attributed to COVID-19 according to clinical symptoms and diagnostic; deaths occurring following vaccination are systematically reported and investigated
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing massive COVID-19 vaccination campaign led to the rollout of an important epidemiological and clinical surveillance. As of 7 May 2021, almost 600,000 persons died from COVID-19 in the U.S. and almost 100 m
Top Fact Checks→ India records the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day.
A total of 3,780 COVID-19 deaths were recorded in India on May 4, 2021. This is the highest number of recorded deaths in a single day in the country.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Document 3,848 Deaths Due To COVID Injections
Did a federal agency document 3,848 deaths due to COVID-19 vaccinations? No, that's not true: The claim exploits the government's rough list of unverified reports collected by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Anyone can
Top Fact Checks→ COVID-19 lockdowns have led to the deaths of about 228,000 children in South Asia.
UNICEF estimated 228,000 deaths among South Asian children in 2020 due to cuts in the availability and use of public health services, not lockdowns.
Top Fact Checks→ Los Angeles County reported zero COVID-19 deaths on May 2, 2021.
Although the official record shows that there were no deaths on May 2, the figures could represent a lag or undercount due to weekend reporting.
Snopes→ Grim List of Deaths at Police Hands Grows Even After Verdict
Many killings by police involve a decision to shoot in a heated moment and are notoriously difficult to prosecute even when they spark grief and outrage.
Liste→ Covid-19 shots not found to have caused deaths that followed vaccinations
Social media posts claim there have been 3,005 “Covid vaccine deaths” since December 1, 2020. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it has received that many reports of deaths among people who took a Covid-19 vaccine, but fou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deaths Caused By Foreign Objects in Rectum Did NOT Surpass ‘AR’ Rifle Deaths
Did deaths in 2020 caused by foreign objects placed in the rectum surpass total deaths from "AR" (Armalite Rifle) fire in the last five years? No, that claim cannot be supported with available data: As of April 16, 2021, there is no publi
Full Fact - All content→ The government hasn’t said the vaccine will cause a third wave of deaths
A video spreading on Instagram claims to show evidence of the government saying that the third wave of deaths during the pandemic will come from vaccines. The person recording the video can be heard saying: “People need to read this: ‘The r
Full Fact - All content→ Claims that a quarter of all Covid-19 deaths weren’t caused by the virus misinterpret the data
Several major media organisations reported this week that a quarter of Covid-19 deaths in the week ending 2 April 2021 were not caused by the virus. This is broadly correct. Data shows 23% of deaths involving Covid-19 that week did not have Covid
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ COVID-19 related deaths are indeed caused by COVID-19 and not by contributing health conditions
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the U.S. since early 2020 and caused nearly 31 million identified cases and 560,000 deaths in the country, and 2.9 million deaths worldwide, as of April 2021. Intensive care units being critically overwhelmed i
Full Fact - All content→ Why you can’t compare deaths after a positive Covid-19 test with deaths after a vaccine
We’ve been asked by many readers via email, WhatsApp and Twitter whether there is a double standard in the way that deaths are reported during this pandemic. Specifically, people want to know why deaths after a positive test for Covid-19 are usua
TruthOrFiction→ Politicians Claim That Deaths By Suicide Increased During Lockdowns; Mortality Report Says Otherwise
On April 4 2021, Twitter user Elizabeth Jacobs PhD (@TheAngryEpi) tweeted about political claims involving quarantine-related suicides in 2020, contrasted with March 2021 data about mortality rates for the year before: Politicians told us repeatedly
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed two vaccines used in the US caused deaths and injuries in Europe
As states across the U.S. expand the eligibility for getting a COVID-19 shot, a conservative website blasted out a warning from Europe. The Gateway Pundit claimed two of the vaccines being used in the United States are behind thousands of deaths and in
Snopes→ UK: Benefits Outweigh Risks for AstraZeneca Despite 7 Deaths
The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it wasn’t clear if the shots are causing the clots and that "rigorous review" is ongoing.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Report Twice As Many Vaccine-Related Deaths In 2021 As In The Past Decade
Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report there are nearly twice as many vaccine-related deaths so far in 2021 than all the vaccine deaths this past decade? No, that's not true: The CDC has made no such statemen
Liste→ Article misrepresents US data on deaths after vaccinations
An article claims the number of “vaccine related deaths” in the United States in 2021 surpasses that of the past decade, as a national Covid-19 inoculation campaign accelerates. But the government reporting system cited in the piece makes clear tha
Snopes→ COVID-19 Pushed Total US Deaths Beyond 3.3 Million Last Year
The coronavirus caused approximately 375,000 deaths and was the third leading cause of death in 2020, after heart disease and cancer.
Snopes→ Colorado Massacre Spurs Calls for State Action on Gun Deaths
The mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia are giving new urgency to state efforts to enact gun restrictions, even while showing how hard it can be to prevent a tragedy.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Report 1,739 Deaths From The COVID-19 Vaccine
Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report 1,739 deaths from the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: There's no public evidence the vaccine caused deaths. As its source, the claim cites the government's rough
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Mask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
REVIEW This article published by the One America News Network (OAN) on 7 March 2021 claims that a recent study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that masks had a “negligible impact on coronavirus numbers”. The
Full Fact - All content→ Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 460 deaths
Facebook users have shared links to several websites which misreport government data on Covid-19 vaccines. These websites claim the data shows that 460 people have died in the UK because of the Covid-19 vaccine, and 243,612 have suffered “injurie
Snopes→ Did Seresto Pet Collars Cause 1,698 Dog and Cat Deaths?
Readers asked about Seresto pet collars following an investigation by USA Today and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.