REVIEW On 12 September 2023, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a meeting discussing COVID-19 vaccines. Writer Alex Berenson used data presented at this meeting to
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Have NOT ‘Killed 20 Million People’
Have COVID-19 vaccines "killed 20 million people" since their rollout? No, that's not true: The article making this claim cited a 2022 study that estimated COVID vaccines had saved -- not killed -- nearly 20 million lives in the first yea
Logically→ Tennis player Clara Tauson’s collapse falsely tied to vaccines
FactCheck.org→ Flu Shots, MMR Vaccines Have Saved Millions of Lives, Contrary to Online Claim
SciCheck Digest Flu shots and vaccines that protect children against measles, mumps and rubella have been effective in preventing illness, serious disease and death. But a meme has been circulating with the false suggestion that those vaccines are
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Social media posts misrepresent CDC data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in teens
CLAIM: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that COVID-19 vaccines will not prevent any deaths among teenagers and lead to 100,000 to 200,000 severe side effects.
Health Feedback→ VAERS death reports don’t prove COVID-19 vaccines killed hundreds of thousands, contrary to claim by Steve Kirsch
REVIEW A Facebook video posted on 6 August 2022 showed Steve Kirsch, a known spreader of COVID-19 misinformation, claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines caused higher rates of death than previously reported. Specifically, he claimed that these deaths
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Florida Has NOT Officially Classified COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines As Bioweapons As Of September 18, 2023
Has the state of Florida officially classified COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as bioweapons? No, that's not true: There is no legislation in Florida that has classified mRNA vaccines as bioweapons as of September 18, 2023. One county Republican o
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on the Updated COVID-19 Vaccines
Updated COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out in the U.S., aimed at targeting the latest, prevalent variants of the disease. The updated vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, are available for those ages 6 months and older. The Food and D
Health Feedback→ Yale University researchers reported a technology to deliver mRNA vaccines in the nose, not a way to remotely vaccinate people
REVIEW Researchers from Yale University, Suberi et al., published a study in August 2023 on a new technology for mRNA vaccine delivery[1]. In early September 2023, a video from the Epoch Times claimed that this technology could be used to “dissemi
Health Feedback→ Robert Malone makes several misleading and unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 vaccines in Judicial Watch interview
REVIEW On 9 September 2023, political activist group Judicial Watch posted a video of an interview with scientist Robert Malone, conducted by the group’s director of investigations Christopher Farrell. The video, which contains several claims abou
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Ron DeSantis mandated COVID-19 vaccines in Florida? No, that Donald Trump claim rates Pants on Fire!
“Florida sort of had a mandate because they were giving the vaccine, they were demanding everybody take the vaccine.”
Health Feedback→ Study didn’t show COVID-19 vaccines weaken children’s immune response, contrary to claim by Alex Berenson
REVIEW A study from researchers at the University of Melbourne[1] became the basis of claims on social media that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine damaged children’s immune response against other diseases. One example of such a claim can be seen in thi
Logically→ Study on COVID-19 vaccines misrepresented to claim they cause ‘VAIDS’ in children
Health Feedback→ Rebel News article lacks evidence for claiming COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe and unnecessary
REVIEW On 29 August 2023, Rebel News, a Canadian website recognized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories, published an article and video titled “Why you should think twice before considering a COVID booster”. The article
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Social media posts misconstrue the efficacy of vaccines for flu, measles, mumps and rubella
CLAIM: Vaccines for the flu, measles, mumps and rubella were developed decades ago, yet the diseases haven't been eradicated, proving that the immunizations don’t work.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Government Report’ Did NOT Find ‘Millions of Children’ Vaccinated With COVID Vaccines Developed ‘VAIDS’
Did a 2023 "government report" prove that "millions of children" who were vaccinated with the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed a condition known as "vaccine acquired immune deficiency, or VAIDS"? No, that's not true: There was no "g
Health Feedback→ Posts misrepresent CDC risk assessment of new SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86; COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of infection
REVIEW The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a document on 23 August 2023 summarizing what was known at the time about a new SARS-CoV-2 variant called BA.2.86. In the document, the CDC reported that “BA.2.86 may be mo
AllSides→ COVID-19 Vaccines Have Not Been Shown to Cause ‘Turbo Cancer’
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FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Vaccines Have Not Been Shown to Cause ‘Turbo Cancer’
SciCheck Digest People with cancer are particularly vulnerable to severe disease and death from COVID-19. Vaccines provide needed protection. It has not been shown that COVID-19 vaccines cause or accelerate cancer. Nor does a recent paper about a m
Health Feedback→ Health authorities continue to collect safety data on COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to misleading claim by the Daily Wire
REVIEW In August 2023, the headline of a Daily Wire article claimed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had “Remove[d] COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports” from its website. Daily Wire’s contributors Ben Shapiro and
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Video shows professor talking about water equity, not adding COVID-19 vaccines to water supply
Speaker at World Economic Forum conference proposed adding COVID-19 vaccines to water supply.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – COVID-19 vaccines not a threat to children of vaccinated women, experts say
Women vaccinated against COVID-19 face "unknown side effects that could perpetually go down through the lineage" to their children.
Full Fact→ Covid-19 vaccines not ‘Mass Genocide’ of children
A Facebook post repeats the claim that Covid vaccines are causing death to children on a large scale. This isn’t true.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – World Health Organization did not say COVID-19 vaccines might cause multiple sclerosis
The World Health Organization said there is "a possible causal relationship" between COVID-19 vaccines and multiple sclerosis.
Health Feedback→ Misleading Instagram posts use news headlines out of context to imply COVID-19 vaccines increase COVID-19 mortality risk
REVIEW Entrepreneur and podcaster David Harris Jr. posted a picture on Instagram of headlines from two news articles, one from CNN in January 2021, and the other from the Washington Post in October 2022, with the caption “Just posting two headline
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA NOT Added To All Childhood Vaccines Without Regulatory Reapproval — Any Changes Require Vaccines To Be Treated As New Product, Re-Evaluated
Is mRNA being integrated into "every childhood vaccine" without regulatory reapproval? No, that's not true: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls the claim "completely false." There are rigorous regulatory processes in place t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cleveland Clinic Study Did NOT Prove ‘Absolute Linear Correlation’ Between COVID-19 Vaccines And Infection Risk
Does a study conducted by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic provide an "absolute direct linear correlation" that the more COVID-19 vaccines a person receives, the higher likelihood that person has of contracting the disease, thus provin
FactCheck.org→ Viral Video Repeats Bogus Claim About Vaccines and Visible Ailments
SciCheck Digest A video repeating the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the sudden onset of various visible ailments — such as fainting and facial paralysis — is making the rounds, again. But, just like the other, similar
Logically→ RFK Jr. makes false claims about children’s vaccines safety
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Secret CDC Report’ Shows Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children ‘Died Suddenly’ Following Rollout Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Does a "secret CDC report" show hundreds of thousands of children "died suddenly" in the United States following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? No, that's not true: The author or authors of the article making the claims did not find any su
Logically→ No, COVID-19 vaccines do not transmit antibodies through aerosols
Logically→ No, vaccines did not cause autism in Vietnam
PolitiFact→ Steve Kirsch – Activist misuses federal data to make Pants on Fire claim that COVID-19 vaccines killed 676,000
COVID-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans.
Health Feedback→ Why Alex Jones’ claim on Infowars that COVID-19 vaccines cause meat allergy is baseless
REVIEW In a video from August 2023, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and InfoWars employee Rob Dew claimed that the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines contain a bovine protein called alpha-gal that “creates an autoimmune response in those
Health Feedback→ Video about blank COVID-19 vaccine insert falsely implies there are no safety data for COVID-19 vaccines
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Florida leprosy cases highlighted in recent report aren’t linked to COVID-19 vaccines
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Health Feedback→ VAERS data don’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are deadly; Steve Kirsch’s claim to the contrary relied on flawed analysis
REVIEW The claim that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the deaths of many people is a recurring theme of disinformation that Health Feedback has refuted on previous occasions. In yet another iteration of this claim, entrepreneur Steve Kirsch pu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: VAERS Data Is NOT ‘Crystal Clear’ Proof That COVID-19 Vaccines Are Killing ‘1 Person Per 1,000 Doses’
Does data collected from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) prove that COVID-19 vaccines are "killing an estimated 1 person per 1,000 doses," resulting in "676,000 dead Americans"? No, that's not true: The claim originated
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer Employees In Australia Did NOT Receive Different COVID-19 Vaccines Than Public
Did Pfizer employees in Australia receive a special batch of imported COVID-19 vaccines that were different from what the public was given? No, that's not true: Pfizer global media relations told Lead Stories that the pharmaceutical and b
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 mRNA vaccines don’t cause long-term spike protein production in the body, contrary to claims by retired professor
REVIEW On 27 July 2023, The Epoch Times published an article by Klaus Steger, a molecular biologist who specializes in the gene regulation of sperm development, carrying the headline “COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters Were Never Made With mRNA”. Th