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Publication: covid-19
Snopes→ Does Video Show Athletes Fainting Due to COVID-19 Vaccine?
A series of fear-mongering videos were circulated on social media with unsubstantiated and false claims.
Snopes→ New Info Shows Omicron Spread Wider Earlier Than Thought
New findings about the coronavirus's omicron variant made it clear that the emerging threat slipped into countries well before their defenses were up.
Snopes→ What Dr. Angelique Coetzee Actually Said About Omicron Variant
Dr. Coetzee was the first to detect the COVID-19 variant in South Africa in November 2021.
Health Feedback→ No evidence that the low COVID-19 case rate in Sweden is due to herd immunity; vaccines don’t lead to new variants of SARS-CoV-2
REVIEW Various countries experienced a rise in COVID-19 cases in 2021 despite ongoing vaccination campaigns. Certain outlets took advantage of the Delta wave to question the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines. An example of this is this article
Snopes→ Wary, Weary World Slams Doors Shut, Fearing Omicron Variant
Nations around the world sought to keep the new omicron variant at bay with travel bans and further restrictions, even as it remains unclear what it means for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Feedback→ Natural News, others jump to conclusions unsupported by the study they cite to claim COVID-19 vaccines destroy the immune system and cause cancer
REVIEW On 5 November 2021, Natural News published a post in which they claimed a recent scientific study showed that the spike protein in the COVID-19 vaccines accumulated in the nucleus of cells and destroyed “DNA repair pathways, paving the wa
Health Feedback→ Claim that the COVID-19 vaccine is riskier than the disease for children is based on an economist’s incorrect calculation of the metric “number needed to vaccinate”
REVIEW On 1 November 2021, political economist Toby Rogers published an article on Substack claiming that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine would kill more children than it would save. Rogers arrived at this claim based on his calculation of a me
Health Feedback→ Claim that previously infected people don’t transmit COVID-19 is unsupported, originates from misinterpretation of CDC’s FOIA response
REVIEW On 11 November 2021, Gateway Pundit published an article titled “CDC Admits It Has No Record of an Unvaccinated Person Spreading Covid After Recovering From Covid”. The article claimed that “natural immunity provides better protection a
Health Feedback→ Contrary to claim in Becker News article, not all cases of infection lead to immunity; falsely claims that most COVID-19 deaths weren’t caused by COVID-19 but by comorbidities
REVIEW An article published by Becker News in mid-November 2021, written by former Fox News writer Kyle Becker, claimed in its headline that “The CDC Finally Admits a Massive Number of Americans Have ‘Natural Immunity’: 146.6 Million People”
Snopes→ Does FDA Want Until 2076 To Release Vaccine Data?
A scheduling dispute related to an FOIA request for COVID-19 vaccine data was misconstrued on social media.
Snopes→ Yes, Austria Announced Compulsory Nationwide COVID-19 Vaccination
Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases and considerable vaccine hesitancy, the federal government announced the drastic new measure in November 2021.
Snopes→ Contrary to Popular Belief, No Great Migration in Pandemic
New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that the proportion of people who moved over the past year fell to its lowest level in the 73 years that it has been tracked.
Snopes→ NIH Launches 1st Long-Term Study of Children with COVID-19
The three-year trial will track the effects of infection on those under 21.
Snopes→ Pfizer Agrees to Let Other Companies Make Its COVID-19 Pill
The move could make the treatment available to more than half of the world’s population.
Snopes→ No, Bill Gates Did Not Call for Withdrawal of ‘Dangerous’ COVID-19 Vaccines
This is why we fact-check "satire."
Snopes→ Politicians Maskless in Viral Pic Because It Was Taken in 2012
If you have to support your argument with outdated and unrelated images, it might be worth rethinking your position.
Health Feedback→ Pfizer CEO’s wife didn’t die from vaccine complications; Myriam Bourla is alive and well
REVIEW On 10 November 2021, the Conservative Beaver, an anonymously run Canadian website that routinely publishes “false information and actual fake news”, published a piece claiming that “Myriam Bourla—the wife of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
Health Feedback→ Claim that French study showed long COVID doesn’t exist misinterprets the study and fails to account for its limitations
REVIEW An article published on Substack in early November 2021, a platform that supports subscription newsletters, claimed that a French study[1] demonstrated that long COVID is “mostly a mental disease”. Long COVID is a condition in which COVID
Health Feedback→ Tromethamine in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children acts to improve the stability of the vaccine; it isn’t in the vaccine as a heart medication
REVIEW On 29 October 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11. This vaccine for children has a slightly different formulation from the one approve
Snopes→ Did Vermont’s COVID-19 Cases Rise 16,700% in 4 Months?
We took a closer look at the numbers in this viral tweet.
Health Feedback→ Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths, the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians
REVIEW In early 2020, during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Italy became one of the hardest hit countries in the world. As of 9 November 2021, the country totalized more than 130,000 deaths from COVID-19. In November 2021, several websit
Health Feedback→ There is no evidence that luciferase is an ingredient in the COVID-19 vaccines
REVIEW On 1 November 2021, Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted a warning: “Dear Christians: the vaccines contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked”. She also recommended that Christians
Snopes→ Was Woman Removed from Flight for Insisting on COVID-19 Vaccinations?
This staged and scripted video has been viewed millions of times.
Snopes→ Is This COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Side Effects’ Poster Real?
An poster displaying supposed COVID-19 vaccine side effects did not originate with an authoritative source.
Snopes→ Did Biden Say You Won’t Get COVID if You’re Vaccinated?
Biden overstated the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccinations during a July 2021 town hall.
Snopes→ US Employers Shrugged off Virus and Stepped Up Hiring
America’s employers accelerated their hiring last month, a sign that the recovery from the pandemic recession is overcoming a virus-induced slowdown.
Health Feedback→ Article by The Exposé failed to account for caveats listed in U.K. vaccine surveillance reports; falsely claims fully vaccinated people have weakened immunity
REVIEW An article published by the website The Exposé on 30 October 2021 claimed that the Vaccine Surveillance Reports published by the U.K. Health Security Agency showed that fully vaccinated people are developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrom
Health Feedback→ No evidence suggests that Pfizer’s smoking cessation medication Chantix increases the risk of cancer; recall of this product is irrelevant to the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
REVIEW Misinformation discouraging COVID-19 vaccination has taken many forms. One of them involves misleading claims suggesting that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers marketed unsafe products in the past. These narratives foster distrust in the product
Snopes→ Pfizer Says COVID-19 Pill Cut Hospital, Death Risk by 90%
Currently all COVID-19 treatments used in the U.S. require an IV or injection.
Snopes→ Did a ‘Hopi Indian Chief’ Write a Lockdown-Era Message About ‘Resistance’?
Check your source's sources' sources.
Snopes→ Did Japan Halt COVID-19 Vax Rollout Due to Ivermectin Success?
Japan has been touted as a pandemic success story.
Snopes→ ‘Luciferase’ Is Not an Ingredient in COVID-19 Vaccines
Also, it has nothing to do with Lucifer.
Health Feedback→ Social media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die
REVIEW The number of COVID-19 deaths rose again in the U.S. from July 2021 to mid-September 2021, amid concerns of the Delta variant spreading and vaccine-induced immunity waning over time. While data show that vaccines are safe and effective agains
Snopes→ White House Press Secretary Psaki Says She Has COVID-19
Psaki, 42, said she was last in contact with President Joe Biden in the White House, where they were more than 6 feet apart and wearing masks.
Snopes→ COVID-19’s Global Death Toll Tops 5 Million in Under 2 Years
The U.S. alone has recorded over 745,000 lives lost, more than any other nation.
Snopes→ Sen. Ted Cruz Defends Nazi Salutes as Form of Protest
An attendee at a school board meeting in Birmingham, Michigan, flashed a Nazi salute in protest of the board's COVID-19 mask policy.
Snopes→ Are People Receiving Vaccines With More Ingredients Than FDA Approved?
Allegedly, shots contained more than double the ingredients federal regulators OK'd.
Health Feedback→ The COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against hospitalization and death; number of vaccinated people in hospital does not indicate evidence against this
REVIEW Almost 80% of people aged 12 and over in the U.K. have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The level of protection provided by the vaccines means that the number of COVID-19 deaths is about 10% of the level seen in the previous wave (120 de
Health Feedback→ Claims that a Harvard study showed COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective misrepresent the conclusions from the authors; fail to account for the study’s limitations
REVIEW This video published by The Jimmy Dore Show on 17 October 2021 claimed in its title that a Harvard study showed that COVID-19 surged among most vaccinated communities. The cited study, which was published in the European Journal of Epidemiolo