Does Pfizer "admit" that people given its COVID-19 vaccine "shed" spike proteins and infect unvaccinated people? No, that's not true. The claim is based on the standard clinical study protocol used for a wide range of medicines. There is
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The Dispatch→ Does a Pfizer Ad Tell Kids the Vaccine Will Give Them Superpowers?
“PURE EVIL: Disturbing Pfizer Ad Tells Kids They’ll Get Superpowers from COVID Jab (VIDEO).” Or so claims the headline of this story from misinformation peddler the Gateway Pundit. The article focuses on a video recently released
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Graphene, Which Is NOT A COVID-19 Vaccine Ingredient
Does this video show graphene reacting to electrical impulses, and is there graphene in COVID-19 vaccines? No, both are not true. COVID vaccines contain no graphene. Pre-approval testing of COVID vaccines by independent labs, as well as t
Full Fact→ Police have not said a West Midlands teen was “murdered” with a Covid-19 vaccine
A widely-viewed video posted on Facebook claims police have agreed that a 17-year-old was murdered with a Covid-19 vaccine. The video shows a group of protestors outside West Midlands Police HQ in Birmingham. One speaker says a police sergeant &l
Full Fact→ Parents aren’t being urged to donate their children’s organs at vaccine appointments
An image of a sign at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic has been photoshopped to read as if it is urging parents to donate their children’s organs. It has been retweeted or quote tweeted more than 4,000 times after it was posted by musicians Ri
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Zelenko Interview Does NOT Show World Is Living Through Global Biological Weapons Attack — It’s Laundry List Of Disproven COVID Vaccine Claims
Does a 54-minute video interview featuring elaborate conspiracy theories show we are living through a global bioweapons attack? No, that's not true: The video includes a lengthy list of claims and charges that have already been debunked.
FactCheck.org→ A Guide to Pfizer/BioNTech’s Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids 5-11
As with its adult vaccine, Pfizer/BioNTech was the first to cross the finish line and offer a Food and Drug Administration-authorized COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5 through 11. Here, we describe how it’s different from its grown-up cousin and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Collection Of Videos Without Context Does NOT Prove These ‘Side Effects’ Were Caused By Vaccine
Does this collection of video clips prove people are suffering from harmful side effects of a COVID-19 vaccine? No, this video lacks enough context to show if these people were even vaccinated, or if their symptoms are related to the vacc
FactCheck.org→ DeSantis, Social Media Posts Mislead on COVID-19’s Toll in Florida
SciCheck Digest Florida’s total COVID-19 case rate is higher than the national average and 10th highest in the U.S. But social media posts and the state’s governor point to a recent decline in daily cases as evidence of Florida’s succ
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
Full Fact→ How the UK Health Security Agency’s misleading data fuelled a global vaccine myth
On 21 October, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro delivered a live address through his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts, which between them have tens of millions of followers. He wanted to talk to his country about the Covid-19 vaccines,
Full Fact→ Guardian wrong to suggest unvaccinated deaths are the majority currently
"CDC data says the vast majority of those now dying from Covid in the US are unvaccinated. Same story in the UK." Today in Focus podcast, 1 November 2021. We have been asked by readers on WhatsApp about a claim in the 1 November episode of The Guardia
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video By Dr. Richard Fleming Does NOT Prove Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Attacks Human Blood, Creating Clots’
Does Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine attack human blood and cause dangerous clots? No, there's no publicly available evidence to support the claim. There is no website at the address the video maker sends viewers to for details on the blood exa
Full Fact→ No evidence linking deaths among children to vaccine rollout
An article shared on Facebook claims deaths among boys are “83% higher than the 5-year-average since they were given Covid-19 vaccine”. The article, published by The Exposé, suggests that since children over the age of 12 began
Full Fact→ Joe Rogan podcast uses Covid-19 death data out of context
A video clip from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in which journalist Alex Berenson claims that over 70% of deaths from Covid-19 in the UK are now in fully vaccinated people has been widely shared on Facebook. This claim originates from UK Healt
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘There is No Evidence People Ever Saved Bacon Grease’ Facebook ‘Fact Check’
An October 21 2021 post generated a recursive rumor of its own, when it claimed that Facebook fact-checkers had determined there was “no evidence people ever saved aluminum foil or bacon grease” in the course of fact-checking a meme. This
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer DID Include Tromethamine, A Buffer, To Its COVID-19 Vaccine For Children — But It Is NOT Harmful
Did Pfizer include tromethamine, an "ingredient used to stabilize heart attack victims" in its COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 years old? Only as a stabilizing pH buffer to make it easier to store. While tromethamine is being used
Logically→ Rates of infection have doubled among those who have been vaccinated for COVID-19.
There is no evidence for this. Vaccines are proven to reduce the chances of becoming unwell with COVID-19.
Poynter→ Here’s what we really know about COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
The politicization of COVID vaccines — and, well, just about everything else having to do with the pandemic — has led to confusion, if not utter fatigue. And some posts circulating on social media — this slickly edited piece on YouTube, for exam
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
Poynter→ Japan has not stopped its COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Following a summertime surge, Japan’s COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have quickly plummeted, and while experts say vaccines were key to the turnaround, false claims say the opposite. “Japan drops vax rollout,” says the headline o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In UK, Fully Vaccinated ARE 82% Of COVID-19 Deaths, 66% Of Hospitalizations — But Percentages Don’t Tell Full Story
Do fully vaccinated people account for 82% of recent COVID-19 deaths and 66% of hospitalizations in the UK? Yes, that's true. The figures are found in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report - Week 43 by the UK Health Security Agency pub
FactCheck.org→ Why It’s Easy to Misinterpret Numbers of Deaths Among the Vaccinated
SciCheck Digest Raw numbers of hospitalizations or deaths among those who are vaccinated are not a good indicator of whether vaccines are effective. If the large majority of a population is vaccinated, it’s not surprising if most deaths are among
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Gov. DeSantis Did NOT Say FL Schools Would Not Require Any Vaccinations Against Infectious Diseases — Only COVID-19
Did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis say that Florida schools would no longer require vaccinations against polio, measles and mumps for its students? No, that's not true: DeSantis has only said that Florida schools will not require students to b
Logically→ More than 70 percent of the people who are dying from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom are fully vaccinated.
Alex Berenson cherry-picks data to claim that vaccines do not work. His claim lacks context and is false.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Japan Did NOT Drop Its Vaccine Rollout And End COVID Almost Overnight With Ivermectin
Did Japan drop its vaccine program in favor of ivermectin, wiping out COVID-19 in one month? No, that's not true: While coronavirus cases plummeted in Japan after peaking in the second half of August, 2021, it had nothing to do with the a
Full Fact→ Why can you mix and match booster jabs in pregnancy?
We have been asked on WhatsApp about the Covid-19 booster vaccines in pregnancy. In particular people have asked why the booster vaccine is deemed to be safe in pregnancy, and why mixing and matching vaccines for the booster is sometimes recommended (d
Logically→ Deaths among boys in the U.K. aged 10-14 are 83 percent higher since they were given COVID-19 vaccine .
While ONS data shows an increase in child mortality in 2021, there is no evidence that this due to COVID-19 vaccines.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 79.4% Of Babies Who Died Of SIDS Did NOT Have A Vaccine The Same Day
Did nearly 80% of the babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) have a vaccine the same day? No, that's not true. The number appears to come from misinterpreted materials from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS
Logically→ The COVID-19 vaccination drive is government propaganda to instill fear in people.
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and are the best way to prevent serious illness and death caused by the virus.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘FDA Vaccine Advisory Board Said Friday Unvaccinated Are More Educated on the Vaccine Than Most People Who Have Gotten It’ Tweet
On October 26 2021, an undated Twitter screenshot circulated, claiming that the “FDA vaccine advisory board” had bemoaned that unvaccinated Americans are highly educated: pic.twitter.com/JkWDvif5yX — Raider Pablo (@R8erN8tion) Octo
Logically→ Fully vaccinated people will develop AIDS.
COVID-19 vaccines do not cause AIDS.
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Spin NIH Letter About Coronavirus Gain-of-Function Research
Republicans say a letter from a National Institutes of Health official is an admission that the agency funded so-called gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, with some falsely linking the work to the pandemic coronavirus. But the res
FactCheck.org→ FEMA Staff and Contracted Medical Workers Are Required to Follow Vaccine Mandate
SciCheck Digest The Federal Emergency Management Agency is deploying contracted medical workers to understaffed hospitals, where they are required to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates. But social media posts falsely claim that “doctors and nu
FactCheck.org→ Video: Tucker Carlson Misrepresents Vaccine Safety Reporting Data
Social media posts repeatedly misuse unverified reports to a federal database designed to detect safety issues in vaccines to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. In this video, FactCheck.org and Univision Noticias teamed up to debunk mi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Real Math’ Of COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Is NOT Accurate — Vaccine Risk Reduction and Deaths Are Misinterpreted
Does the "real math" of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy suggest that vaccine risk reduction and death figures point to the inefficacy of the vaccines? No, that's not true: A video makes false claims about the findings of a short comment publish
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking President Biden’s Town Hall Claims About the Vaccine Rollout
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FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
We spotted a few instances in President Joe Biden’s televised town hall when his answers didn’t square with the facts: Biden said that both he and his wife had “been” to the U.S-Mexico border. But the White House press secretary said he wa
Full Fact→ Covid-19 can be fatal and tests for it aren’t rigged
A post on Facebook includes a number of false or misleading claims about Covid-19 deaths, tests, the vaccines, hand sanitisers and facemasks. It is not true to say that “Covid-19 is not killing people” According to data from the Offic
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence 250,000 Vaxxed Americans Are Dead From COVID-19 Vaccine
Have 250,000 deaths been caused by the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States? No, that's not true: There is no proof that 250,000 deaths have been caused by receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. In a video, Dr. Zev Zelenko shares no evidence of h