A new poll published by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center found that Americans are more likely to believe COVID vaccine misinformation now than they were when the vaccine was first released. Among the findings, 28% of Americans believe that the vaccine has caused thousands of deaths (up from 22%), 22% believe it is safer to get COVID than the vaccine (up from 10%), and 15% believe that the vaccine can change your DNA (up from 8%).

These claims are based on laypeople searching the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. As noted on the VAERS website, anyone can report anything to VAERS, regardless of causation.

The most important warning on the website helps put the above claims into context: “VAERS reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Reports to VAERS can also be biased. As a result, there are limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.”

These death claims usually don’t have any proof to back them up. In fact, the life-saving benefits of the COVID vaccine vastly outweigh the rare risks of an adverse event.

It is also important to shout from the rooftops that the mRNA from the vaccine can’t enter the nucleus of a cell, where our DNA is stored, and go about changing it.

In a tweet, a former Canadian radiologist shares an email he received from a patient claiming the COVID vaccine caused his turbo cancer and ivermectin cured him.

No evidence supports the claim that COVID vaccines cause so-called turbo cancer or any other form of cancer.

The idea that these turbo cancers are a result of vaccines stems, in part, from claims that doctors are seeing huge spikes in cancer rates. However, even some of the most powerful carcinogens can take years to manifest in the form of cancer. While there has been an increase in early-onset cancers (not turbo cancer), this increase started in the early 1990s, well before the introduction of COVID vaccines.

Vaccines are not shown to cause cancer, and anti-vaxxers have yet to produce credible evidence the vaccine is causing turbo cancers. And while ivermectin has been studied as a treatment for cancer, we have no definitive studies showing it can cure cancer at this time.

Read more of our posts debunking claims about covid vaccines and cancer.

In a poll, optical mouse inventor Steve Kirsch suggests that myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a vaccine injury.

ME/CFS is a complex and poorly understood condition characterized by persistent fatigue, post-exertional malaise, and a range of other symptoms. At this time, there is no evidence that COVID vaccines used in the U.S. can cause ME/CFS or ALS. We did find one case report of ME/CFS symptoms after the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.

We do know that researchers have noted a correlation between COVID infection, Long-COVID, and ME/CFS, even after mild and asymptomatic cases. In fact, half of Long-COVID patients have chronic fatigue symptoms.

ME/CFS is tragic, but the best way to avoid ME/CFS is through vaccination.