REVIEW Vaccination helps people live longer and healthier by protecting them against life-threatening diseases that were widespread not long ago. According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization against preventable disease
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Health Feedback→ Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases
REVIEW An Instagram reel posted in February 2024 claimed that several viral diseases aren’t actually caused by viruses and that viruses don’t exist. Specifically, it claimed that herpes is caused by lack of collagen, flu is caused by salt imbala
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Immunologist Did NOT Admit COVID-19 Vaccines Would ‘Sterilise’ Humans — He Used Medical Term For Virus Eradication
Did an immunologist accidentally admit that COVID-19 vaccines were intended to sterilize humans, as a video on Instagram implied? No, that's not true: Though the post included genuine footage, it lacked context that makes clear what was m
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Mouse Study of Pangolin Virus
SciCheck Digest A study showed a type of lab mouse is highly susceptible to a coronavirus derived from pangolins, a scaly, cat-sized mammal. This doesn’t mean the virus is dangerous to humans. The virus is related to the one that causes COVID-19
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain Marburg Virus — It’s Not On Ingredients List, Post Gives No Proof
Do COVID-19 vaccines contain the Marburg virus, a severe and often fatal illness in humans? No, that's not true: Each vaccine has its unique formulation, but none include the Marburg virus. The disease is rare, usually found in Africa aft
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, the COVID-19 vaccine does not contain a Marburg virus that can be activated by 5G technology
The Marburg virus has been implanted into people who were vaccinated and has nanotechnology that can be activated through 5G technology.
Full Fact→ A German court did not rule that the measles virus doesn’t exist
A famous case in the 2010s concerned whether proof had been provided in ‘a single publication’, not whether measles itself existed.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Ebola vaccines can’t shed deadly virus
“US hospitals caught injecting experimental Ebola vaccine that sheds!”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Zombie Deer Virus’ Did NOT Spread After Mark Zuckerberg’s Foundation Vaccinated Deer
Did the "zombie deer virus," officially known as chronic wasting disease, spread after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's foundation vaccinated deer across the country? No, that's not true: The foundation, better known as the Chan Zuckerberg
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Did NOT Kill 17 Million People — Coronavirus Was Killer
Did COVID-19 vaccines kill 17 million people around the world during the pandemic? No, that's not true: Infectious disease experts told Lead Stories that the surge in deaths correlates with surges in coronavirus infections, not vaccinatio
The Dispatch→ Are the Levels of the COVID Virus in Our Wastewater ‘Alarming’?
Claims to that effect appear to rely on actual CDC data, but are misleading.
Health Feedback→ Public information film on coronavirus allegedly from the 1970s is a parody published in 2020
REVIEW A three-minute video titled “Coronavirus – 1970s Public Information Film” offering recommendations to prevent coronavirus infections went viral at the end of 2023. The video circulated on social media platforms including X (formerly
Health Feedback→ 2018 coronavirus research in NIAID Montana lab is unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, contrary to claim by Fox News’s Jesse Watters
REVIEW In June 2023, Fox News anchor Jesse Watters took over the primetime slot formerly occupied by Tucker Carlson. During his tenure at Fox News, Carlson repeatedly made inaccurate claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Watters appears to fo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Survey’ Does NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Killed 3.5X More Americans Than COVID Virus
Did a "survey" find that COVID-19 vaccines "killed 3.5X more Americans than COVID virus"? No, that's not true: A medical professional who treats patients of long COVID told Lead Stories that the so-called survey "lacked scientific rigor"
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence CNN And BBC Reported That An Image Called ‘Mexico Did It’ Spreads Virus On Phones
Does an image called "Mexico did it," referring to a supposed COVID-19 cure in Mexico, actually spread a virus within five seconds when opened on a phone and did CNN and the BBC report about this? No, that's not true: Lead Stories could f
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, Alabama cases of EEE virus aren’t linked to Bill Gates or Oxitec’s modified mosquitoes
CLAIM: Recently reported cases of Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, virus in Alabama were caused by a genetically modified mosquito project tied to Bill Gates.
Logically→ No, vaccinated people are not more vulnerable to BA.2.86 coronavirus variant
AllSides→ Is FEMA at Burning Man? Virus Outbreak Conspiracy Theory Spreads Online
https://www.newsweek.com/burning-man-fema-ebola-conspiracy-theories-1824295 After the Burning Man festi
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Don’t be an ‘idiot’: ID-10T is not the name of a new global virus
“New global virus called ID-10T is spreading quickly.”
Logically→ No, vaccinating chickens against the IB virus is not a plan to mass vaccinate humans
Logically→ No, vaccinating chickens against the IB virus is not a plan to mass vaccinate humans
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, the COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain ‘monkey virus DNA’
“Monkey virus DNA found in COVID-19 shots”
AllSides→ Video Distorts Early Coronavirus Research To Promote Baseless Bioweapon Conspiracy Theory
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/06/video-distorts-early-coronavirus-research-to-promote-baseless-bioweapon-conspiracy-theory/
FactCheck.org→ Video Distorts Early Coronavirus Research To Promote Baseless Bioweapon Conspiracy Theory
SciCheck Digest Human coronaviruses first identified in the 1960s cause common colds. But a viral video misrepresents early research on common coronaviruses and cites unrelated patents to falsely suggest U.S. scientists created the viruses that cau
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 is caused by a virus, not snake venom; no snake venom in COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to claim by chiropractor Bryan Ardis
REVIEW Among some of the wildest claims about the origins of COVID-19 can be traced back to chiropractor Bryan Ardis, who in an April 2022 pseudodocumentary titled “Watch The Water”, falsely claimed that COVID-19 wasn’t caused by a virus, but
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Uptick in cases of myocarditis in newborns in Wales linked to enterovirus, not COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines administered during pregnancy drove an increase in cases of myocarditis in babies.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Study on possible COVID-19 brain effects looked at virus, not vaccines
“A European study has found COVID vaccines could be causing ‘long-term brain damage.’”
Logically→ Viruses can be transmitted from human to human
Health Feedback→ High population immunity and low virus circulation the reasons for new Swiss COVID-19 vaccine recommendation, not vaccine injuries
REVIEW More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the world’s population has developed immunity to the disease either through vaccination or infection, prompting public health authorities to revise COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. In
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, Defense Department didn’t award COVID-19 contract in Ukraine before virus emerged
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a contract for COVID-19 research in Ukraine months before the virus was known.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS, is contagious. A video’s claim that it’s not is Pants on Fire!
HIV is not contagious.
Full Fact→ 5G isn’t going to activate Marburg virus hidden in vaccines
There’s no evidence for false claims on social media stating Marburg virus is hidden in the Covid-19 vaccine and will be activated by 5G.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Zombie Virus In China — Video Shows Event Organized By Transit Service
Did a virus that turns its host into a zombie get released in China? No, that's not true: This video shows an event put on by the Jakarta Light Rail Transit and an event organizer in Indonesia. Multiple videos on social media also prove t
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Video doesn’t show a zombie virus outbreak in China
Video shows zombie virus outbreak in China.
Logically→ SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been isolated, and there is no evidence that it even exists.
Logically→ Every virus since HIV in the 1980s has been a bioweapon.
Logically→ The experimental Spanish flu vaccine tested in 1918 caused the Spanish flu, not the virus.
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Pfizer Conducting Any Inappropriate Coronavirus Experiments
SciCheck Digest Scientists say the experiments Pfizer has performed on the coronavirus are standard for the industry. Baseless claims that the company is mutating the virus for profit, however, have been circulating since the release of a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Invent Computer Viruses To Sell Microsoft Antivirus Programs
Did Bill Gates create computer viruses and infect Microsoft computers to then sell antivirus software programs? No, that's not true: There's no evidence that either Gates or his company deliberately created and spread computer viruses, an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BMJ Paper Does NOT Show COVID Vaccine Causes 5x More Myocarditis Than Virus, 10X More In Youths
Does a new paper published in BMJ Medicine show that the COVID vaccine causes five times more myocarditis than the COVID virus and 10 times more in young people? No, that's not true: One of the study's authors told Lead Stories in a Febru