SciCheck Digest A satire site a month ago published a joke about the Biden administration creating “quarantine camps” for the unvaccinated. Now that fabricated story is circulating online, presented as if it’s real.
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Full Fact→ Boris Johnson hasn’t had three Covid-19 vaccines
A number of posts on social media claim that pictures show Boris Johnson receiving three doses of the Covid-19 vaccines. Two of the pictures do show the Prime Minister receiving a Covid-19 vaccine—his first dose in March 2021 and his second
Full Fact→ Boris Johnson was wrong to say that “everybody” is entitled to extra self-isolation support
“So many people across our country are having to survive on just £96 sick pay per week.” Richard Burgon MP, 21 July 2021. “Mr Speaker he’s quite wrong because everybody who’s self-isolating is entitled, in addition
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine IS Free And DOES Save Lives — Price NOT Linked To Effectiveness
Is the COVID-19 vaccine free because it doesn't save lives? No, that's not true: The claim does not specifically mention the COVID-19 vaccine -- referring instead to "the shot" -- but it is implied, given current ongoing vaccination effor
Snopes→ Rare ‘Breakthrough’ COVID Cases Are Causing Alarm, Confusion
Reports of athletes, lawmakers and others getting the coronavirus despite vaccination may sound alarming but top health experts point to overwhelming evidence that the shots are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Guidance Does NOT Cite Zero Studies Or Data Showing A Benefit To Student Masking
Does the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance cite zero studies or data showing a benefit to student masking? No, that's not true: The CDC website is peppered with references to studies that show mask use by stud
Full Fact→ Richard Tice makes misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines and fertility
Forcing young girls, who just want to dance, to have vaccines almost certain to mean increased still births, miscarriages, disabled children, infertility. Remember the vaccines still on emergency approval only. Revolting, disgusting. Richard Tice, 19
Full Fact→ Vaccines have not caused daily cases to increase
A post on Instagram seems to imply that the vaccine is causing more Covid-19 cases, by comparing the number of new cases at the start of July 2021, with the same time last year. It correctly states that there were 27,989 new cases reported on 1 July 20
Full Fact→ Children are very unlikely to die of Covid-19
Readers have asked us to explain a public argument between scientists over the dangers of Covid-19 to children. The argument took place on Twitter, and concerned a BBC News article published on 9 July about recent scientific research that assessed the
Health Feedback→ Unvaccinated people are more likely to die of COVID-19 because they are more vulnerable to infection and severe disease
REVIEW On 18 July 2021, political commentator Tomi Lahren published this tweet claiming that vaccinated people can “get COVID-19 and have over 99% chance of survival”, just like unvaccinated people, suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines aren’t use
Health Feedback→ Vaccinated people are less likely to be hospitalized due to the Delta variant compared to unvaccinated people, contrary to chiropractor’s claim
REVIEW On 19 July 2021, a video titled “Delta variant targets vaxxers” was published on the Facebook group TLC4Superteams, run by a chiropractic organization. In the video, chiropractor Jen DePice claimed that a Harvard study showed vaccinated p
Snopes→ India’s Pandemic Death Toll Could Be in the Millions
India's excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy.
FactCheck.org→ Businessman’s Social Media Post Distorts Facts on Definition of a Pandemic
SciCheck Digest A businessman’s post on Instagram and Facebook wrongly claims that the U.S. government “changed the definition of pandemic” in 2004, suggesting that COVID-19 would not have qualified under the old definition. ThereR
Snopes→ Marjorie Taylor Greene: Twitter Timeout Is ‘Communist-Style’ Attack
Twitter imposed the 12-hour timeout on Rep. Greene, saying some of her tweets violated its policy against spreading misinformation that could cause harm during the coronavirus pandemic.
FactCheck.org→ Mayim Bialik and Sons Got COVID-19 Vaccine
SciCheck Digest Actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik has expressed skepticism about vaccines in the past, but she says she and her two teenage children have received the COVID-19 vaccine. A Facebook post says Bialik “refuses to vaccinate,” leavi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Doubly Vaccinated Individuals Do NOT Make Up 60% Of COVID-19 Hospitalizations In The U.K.
Do individuals who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom make up 60% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in that country? No, that's not true: the statistic was stated erroneously by Sir Patrick Vallance, government
Full Fact→ Free paper repeats falsehoods on deaths following vaccination
The front page of free newspaper ‘The Light’, shared on Facebook, claimed that there have been 1,400 deaths and a million injuries “from covid injections” in the UK. There have been just over 1,470 deaths following a Covid-19 va
Full Fact→ Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today
The virus has not killed over 100,000 people. What has happened is that a very large number of people have died with Covid, but not necessarily of Covid. The definition is anybody who has died within 28 days of a positive test is treated as a Covid de
FactCheck.org→ CDC Data Contradict Julián Castro’s Texas COVID-19 Claims
Cases of COVID-19 are increasing in Texas, but it doesn’t have the “highest COVID positivity rate and case count in the nation” — contrary to what Democrat Julián Castro recently tweeted. Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio and
FactCheck.org→ Photo Shows 2018 France World Cup Celebration, Not Vaccine Protest
SciCheck Digest Social media posts are misrepresenting an old photo from France by suggesting the sea of people in the streets shows “[p]eople are waking up against vaccine tyranny.” The photo actually shows a celebration in Paris after Fra
AllSides→ CDC Data Thus Far Show COVID-19 Vaccination Safe During Pregnancy
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Full Fact→ A fall in death rates doesn’t prove Covid-19 isn’t killing anyone
A Facebook post shows a meme of actor John Krasinski in TV show The Office sitting next to a white board with edited text which states that death rates are the same level as previous years therefore proving there is “nothing new killing people&rd
Full Fact→ Allison Pearson tweets misleading stats about Covid hospital patients
Such ignorance amongst the media asking questions at Press briefing.Seven day daily average of COVID cases is 26,000Seven-day average of patients admitted to hospital with COVID: 433 That’s 0.5%It’s a tiny consideration now among vast prob
Health Feedback→ Vaccinated people are less likely to die from the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared to unvaccinated people; viral claim misinterpreted PHE report
Different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, have emerged since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Each variant has specific mutations that make it genetically distinct from other variants and from the precursor (wild-type) vi
Washington Post→ Four Pinocchios for Ron Johnson’s campaign of vaccine misinformation
The Republican senator is a one-man misinformation campaign on the coronavirus, undeterred by fact checks, federal health agencies, medical experts or scientific studies.
FactCheck.org→ CDC Data Thus Far Show COVID-19 Vaccination Safe During Pregnancy
SciCheck Digest Federal vaccine monitoring systems have identified no safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant people. Preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that miscarriage is not more frequent than expected
Truth or Fiction?→ Were Cooks the Largest Occupational Group to Die in the Pandemic?
On July 14 2021, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of a tweet claiming, in part, that “cooks were the largest occupational group to die in a pandemic”: I wish Anthony Bourdain were alive today to articulate the insanity of living in a cou
FactCheck.org→ Meme Spreads Falsehood About Vaccine Transfer Through Eating Meat
SciCheck Digest Livestock and poultry are not being vaccinated against COVID-19. But a meme is spreading the falsehood that those who eat meat from vaccinated animals will get “VAXXED” by consuming the meat. That simply isn’t possible
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective but don’t prevent the disease completely; unvaccinated people place themselves and others at risk as a reservoir for virus spread
REVIEW In early July 2021, this meme claiming that “a vaccinated person might get sick from the virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated” went viral on social media platforms. The meme received more than 65,000 interacti
Full Fact→ No evidence three presidents died because they refused vaccines for their nations
A meme shared on Facebook features actor John Krasinski in The Office with a whiteboard with edited text, which says: “3 countries refused the covid vaccine”, followed by: “Now all 3 of their presidents have died unexpectedly”.
Full Fact→ Adverse event reports after vaccines are not necessarily due to vaccines
A Facebook post claims that, in the USA there have been 387,087 reports of adverse events “of this evil shot in the arm”, presumably referring to the Covid-19 vaccine, up until 18 June 2021. As we have said before, the fact that an adverse
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Meme Does NOT Correctly Describe Reasons For Vaccination Against COVID
Do people need to "remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from the virus they got vaccinated against because you're not vaccinated"? No, that's not true. Mocking public health advice, this meme leaves out the pri
FactCheck.org→ Baseless Conspiracy Theory Follows Deaths of Haitian President, Other National Leaders
SciCheck Digest Following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, social media posts baselessly suggest that he and other world leaders were killed or died because they opposed COVID-19 vaccination in their countries. All the leaders nam
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Will NOT Lose Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) When ‘Everything Opens Back Up’
Will COVID-19 vaccines lose emergency use authorization (EUA) when "there is no longer an emergency and everything opens back up"? No, that's not true: That's not how the process works. Whether or not a drug has an EUA is not dependent on
AllSides→ Greene’s Deceptive Claims of Forced COVID-19 Vaccinations and Vaccination ‘Deaths’
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/07/scicheck-greenes-deceptive-claims-of-forced-covid-19-vaccinations-and-vaccination-deaths/
Truth or Fiction?→ Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Echoes ‘Doctor’s Plot’ Rhetoric
An ongoing medical disinformation campaign took a sharp turn in July 2021, when right-wing commentators and politicians pivoted to direct attacks against continued efforts by the Biden administration to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Rep. Lauren Boebert Did NOT Receive A PPP Loan For Her Restaurant
Did U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who has made disparaging remarks about government assistance, receive a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for her restaurant Shooters Grill? No, that's not true: a restaurant with a similar name as the C
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence People Are Going Door-To-Door To ‘See Your Papers’ On COVID-19 Vaccination
Are people going door-to-door to "see your papers" on COVID-19 vaccination? No, there's no evidence that's true: The claim riffs off a comment that President Joe Biden made on vaccine outreach. As his administration has made clear, the do
FactCheck.org→ Greene’s Deceptive Claims of Forced COVID-19 Vaccinations and Vaccination ‘Deaths’
SciCheck Digest There is no evidence that a door-to-door campaign to encourage vaccinations against COVID-19 means President Joe Biden and Democrats “are coming to your front door to force you to take the vax,” as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweete
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lisbon Court Did NOT ‘Rule’ Only 0.9% Of Portugal’s ‘Verified Cases’ Died Of COVID
Did a court in Lisbon rule that the COVID-19 death toll in Portugal was 152 and not the 17,000 reported by public health officials? No, that's not true: The claim is based on misidentification of court documents and on excerpting that cha