REVIEW On 23 January 2023, retired nurse educator John Campbell published a YouTube video commenting on excess mortality data from EuroMOMO, a project monitoring mortality in 29 European countries or subregions, led by scientists at the Statens Seru
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PolitiFact→ Scott Adams – No, ‘Dilbert’ creator is wrong about unvaccinated, they face more risk of COVID-19 infection, death
People not vaccinated against COVID-19 “came out the best."
Poynter→ Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome and seasonal stroke risk concerns long predate the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in an era of significant change, medical and social, for people worldwide. But not everything is new — despite what some social media posts claims. “None of […] The post Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome and
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, seasonal stroke risk concerns long predate the COVID-19 pandemic
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome and “stroke season” didn’t exist before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Poynter→ Does Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster increase stroke risk? ‘Very unlikely,’ agencies say
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into whether Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster caused strokes in certain age groups, […] The post Does Pfizer’s COVID-19
PolitiFact→ Does Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster increase stroke risk? ‘Very unlikely,’ agencies say
Does Pfizer’s omicron booster for COVID-19 increase stroke risk? That claim is missing a lot of context. The CDC and FDA explain.
Health Feedback→ The Pfizer bivalent vaccines are very unlikely to increase the risk of ischemic stroke, contrary to claims on social media
REVIEW Vaccines are always subjected to monitoring, even after authorization or approval. This is to ensure that rare side effects that didn’t appear during clinical trials can be detected. This will allow public health authorities to take appropr
Logically→ Receiving COVID vaccines increases the risk of contracting coronavirus.
The report is a non-peer-reviewed preprint with several limitations. The study focuses on only bivalent COVID vaccines.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FDA Study Does NOT Prove Pfizer COVID Vaccine Increases Risk Of Lung Blood Clots 50% In Elderly
Does a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study prove the Pfizer COVID vaccine increases the risk of lung blood clots in the elderly by 50 percent? No, that's not true: The study does not establish a causal relationship between the v
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Australian Health Data Do NOT Show COVID Vaccinations Increase Risk Of Hospitalization
Do health data from the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) show the more doses of COVID-19 vaccine a person has had, the more likely they are to end up in the intensive care unit (ICU)? No, that's not true: Health officials and med
Full Fact→ Andrew Bridgen MP’s false claims put lives at risk
Full Fact writes to Conservative Party chair following MP’s whip removal
Health Feedback→ Evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of death, contrary to claim by financier Edward Dowd
REVIEW In a video published on 4 January 2023, businessman and podcaster Aubrey Marcus interviewed Edward Dowd, a former investment portfolio manager at BlackRock, regarding his book “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022
PolitiFact→ Robert Malone – Young and healthy people get benefits and low risk from COVID-19 vaccine, despite claims to contrary
COVID-19 vaccines "provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Preprint Study Of Cleveland Clinic Workers Does NOT Prove Vaccinations Increase Risk Of COVID Infection
Does each dose of the COVID-19 vaccine increase a person's chance of getting the COVID-19 virus? No, that's not true: While data from a preprint (not-peer-reviewed) study posted on December 19, 2022, suggests that the "higher the number o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID Vaccine Data Do NOT Show Increased Risk Of Serious Adverse Events Of Special Interest In Randomized Trials
Does a reanalysis of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine data show an increased risk of serious adverse events of special interest? No, that's not true: The authors of this study created their own subset of serious adverse events of
Truth or Fiction?→ Study Contrasts COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Traffic Crash Risk
On December 13 2022, a post to Reddit’s r/science posted a link to a study examining a possible link between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the likelihood of car crashes: Adults who neglect COVID-19 health recommendations may also neg
Health Feedback→ Face masks don’t cause hypercapnia or blood acidity; no evidence indicates that these conditions increase cancer risk
REVIEW A video featuring molecular biologist Christina Parks circulated on video and social media platforms (examples here and here) in October and November 2022. In that video, Parks claimed that face masks cause a buildup of carbon dioxide in the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Seed Oils Are NOT To ‘Blame’ For Being The Primary Risk Factor For Skin Cancers
Do seed oils, not the sun, increase the risks of skin cancer? Was skin cancer "basically non-existent before seed oils"? No, that's not true: Ultraviolet exposure is one of the major factors that may lead to skin cancers, as well as genet
Health Feedback→ Multiple studies showed that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart inflammation more than vaccines do; study in Israel misleadingly used to claim otherwise
REVIEW Social media posts began circulating in September and November 2022, claiming that COVID-19 doesn’t increase the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, despite evidence showing otherwise. These are conditions in which the heart becomes infla
FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Vaccines Reduce, Not Increase, Risk of Stillbirth
SciCheck Digest There is no link between COVID-19 vaccination and an increased risk of stillbirth, despite such claims online. In fact, vaccination has been shown in multiple studies to reduce the risk of stillbirth by protecting pregnant people
Health Feedback→ 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
REVIEW On 23 and 24 October 2022, writer at the Canadian news website Western Standard Matthew Horwood posted two tweets showing photos of blood clots. One of the tweets included quotes claiming, “They’re just not normal clots. It’s almost lik
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine boosters reduce the risk of infection and hospitalization, they don’t increase the risk contrary to claims of vaccines “negative efficacy”
REVIEW Data from clinical trials and safety surveillance indicate that COVID-19 vaccines approved in the U.S. are safe and effective at preventing severe illness and death. Nevertheless, false and misleading claims downplaying the vaccines’ ef
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kaiser Did NOT State Risk Of COVID-19 Infection ‘Increases With Each Shot’
Did Kaiser Permanente, a major American non-profit healthcare provider, admit that the risk of COVID-19 infection "increases with each [vaccine] shot"? No, that's not true. Lead Stories spoke with the lead author of the study, an assessme
Health Feedback→ Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but evidence so far doesn’t show that diabetes causes Alzheimer’s
OTHER REVIEW On 29 September 2022, a Facebook user shared a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Formaldehyde, Polysorbate 80 Do NOT Pose Health Risk In Flu Shots
Do flu shots "contaminated with formaldehyde and polysorbate 80" pose a potential health risk to those vaccinated against influenza? No, that's not true: Some flu shots do contain formaldehyde and polysorbate 80, but the amounts are too m
Health Feedback→ Article by cardiologist Aseem Malhotra made unsupported claims about the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccination
REVIEW On 26 September 2022, cardiologist Aseem Malhotra published a two-part article (archived here and here) in the Journal of Insulin Resistance—of which Malhotra is an editor— calling for a global pause of mRNA vaccines. Part 1 of the articl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: MRNA COVID Vaccines Are NOT So Risky That Vaccinations Should Stop
Do mRNA COVID vaccines pose a significant health risk to recipients that warrants halting vaccination while global policies for COVID-19 are reappraised? Was insufficient testing performed on the vaccines prior to their public release? No
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Birth Control Pill Use Does NOT Guarantee Cancer Diagnosis, But Does Have Risks
Does use of birth control pills, classified by international cancer researchers as a Class 1 carcinogen, mean that a woman will develop cancer? No, that's not true: Decades of research show that oral contraceptives do not significantly in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Oxford Study Does NOT Say COVID Vaccination Increases Infection Risk by 44% — Figure Is From Study Subsection Only
Does an Oxford University study say COVID-19 vaccination increases the risk of infection by 44 percent? No, that's not true: The figure comes from a small subsection of the study and doesn't represent its overall conclusions. One of the s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hospitals Did NOT Force Vaccination Of Children For COVID-19; Myocarditis Risk Is Greater Without Vaccine Than With It
Did hospitals force the vaccination of millions of children for COVID-19 and are they now trying to normalize a rare side effect? No, that's not true: Hospitals do not have that kind of power and less than a handful of states have mandate
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Once-A-Year, Water-Only Fasting Does NOT Reduce Risk Of Cancer By 95% — It Takes More Than A Change In Diet
Does a seven-day, once-a-year, water-only fast reduce your risk of cancer by 95%? No, that's not true: There is no scientific evidence to support this claim and Lead Stories spoke to experts who refuted it. The claim appeared in an Instag
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT ’98 Times Worse Than The Virus’ — Benefits ‘Far Outweigh The Risk Of Serious Health Effects’
Are COVID-19 vaccines 98 times worse than the virus itself? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to suggest that getting sick with coronavirus is a better option for the population as a whole than the benefits of immunization. While a
Full Fact→ No proof drinking tea cuts risk of early death
A headline published in the Daily Mail incorrectly claims a study showed tea cuts the risk of an early death.
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of death, contrary to Mark Steyn’s misleading interpretation of mortality data
REVIEW On 24 August 2022, Mark Steyn, a host on GB News, a television and radio channel in the United Kingdom, claimed that young, healthy people died at a higher rate in 2021 than in previous years. Steyn suggested a link between this alleged incre
Logically→ Pregnant woman at an 85 percent risk of having a miscarriage after receiving COVID-19 vaccine.
Netizens spreading this claim have wrongly considered a very selective sample size from a study to draw the conclusion.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Airlines Are NOT Banning Vaccinated People From Flying Over Blood-Clot Risk
Are airlines banning travelers who are vaccinated against the coronavirus from flying because the shot elevates their risk for blood clotting? No, that's not true: This rumor has recently resurfaced on social media after being thoroughly
Logically→ Defibrillators have been installed in children’s parks to counter the risks associated with 5G.
There is no connection between their installation and either 5G phone masts or the COVID-19 vaccine, both of which have been shown to be safe.
FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Vaccination Doesn’t Increase Miscarriage Risk, Contrary to Naomi Wolf’s Spurious Stat
SciCheck Digest Studies have repeatedly found that COVID-19 vaccination does not increase the risk of miscarriage. Bogus claims that 44% of pregnant women in the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial miscarried rely on a faulty tally of miscarri
Snopes→ Park Outside: Fire Risk Prompts Hyundai, Kia Hitch Recalls
Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of some of their large SUVs to park them outdoors and away from buildings after a series of fires involving trailer hitch wiring.
Health Feedback→ Scientific evidence shows COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of pregnancy complications and isn’t associated with any safety issues; Pfizer’s clinical trial doesn’t show otherwise
REVIEW On 12 August 2022, the website Daily Clout published an article claiming that “44 percent of pregnant women participating in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine trial suffered miscarriages.” The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologis