How common is death after COVID vaccination?
Polls claiming that 24% of Americans know someone who died from the COVID vaccine are unreliable due to participation bias and misinformation influencing respondents’ beliefs.
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Polls claiming that 24% of Americans know someone who died from the COVID vaccine are unreliable due to participation bias and misinformation influencing respondents’ beliefs.
The CDC confirms only nine deaths linked to COVID vaccines, with the claim of a thousand deaths originating from unverified VAERS reports.
The flu shot is safe and recommended for cancer patients, but live virus vaccines should be avoided; the claim of non-consensual vaccination is likely fictitious.
COVID mRNA vaccines do not lead to autoantibody development or significant autoimmune disease risk, and COVID infection poses a higher risk for such problems.
Mixing and matching COVID vaccine brands is safe and effective according to studies, and there is no evidence linking COVID vaccines to brain aneurysms.
The claim that a teenage girl was disabled by a COVID vaccine lacks evidence, with doctors suggesting a functional neurological disorder, which the family rejects.
Feeling sick after flu and COVID vaccines is due to your immune system’s reaction, not poison, as it creates inflammation to build protection.
One cardiologist claims that because mRNA produces a “foreign protein” on the surface of human cells, all vaccinated people are injured due to “auto-immunity.”
A video falsely claims that over half a million U.S. deaths were caused by COVID vaccines, based on misinterpretation of VAERS data.
A widely shared tweet falsely claims that an 8-year-old’s tragic death from cardiac arrest was caused by vaccines, despite no evidence linking the two.