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

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The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children contains tromethamine, “a heart attack medication” with “a lot of potentially serious side effects”

SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram

Published: 12 Nov 2021

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Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians

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“Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97% after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID”

SOURCE: Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, Zero Hedge, Il Tempo

Published: 11 Nov 2021

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There is no evidence that luciferase is an ingredient in the COVID-19 vaccines

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Luciferase is in the COVID-19 vaccines to tag and track people

SOURCE: Emerald Robinson, Substack

Published: 11 Nov 2021

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Article by The Exposé failed to account for caveats listed in U.K. vaccine surveillance reports; falsely claims fully vaccinated people have weakened immunity

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The Vaccine Surveillance Reports published by the U.K. government suggest that fully vaccinated people are developing AIDS

SOURCE: Anonymous, The Exposé

Published: 05 Nov 2021

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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

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It “took 15 years to uncover” Chantix’s carcinogenic effects; there are reasons for being “skeptical of something that hasn’t even been established/approved for a full 12 months”

SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Published: 05 Nov 2021

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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

CLAIM
“they are needing to change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated” “40% of deaths from C19 last week [...] were fully vaccinated, [...] that’s a jump of 51.2%”

SOURCE: Elijah Schaffer, Twitter, Instagram

Published: 02 Nov 2021

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An investigation found no evidence that deaths of HIV-positive foster children enrolled in AIDS drug trials were caused by trial medication, contrary to recent claims

CLAIM
“[Anthony Fauci] Funded Experimenting With AIDS Orphans…25 Died”

SOURCE: Steven Ahle, Unite America First

Published: 02 Nov 2021

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Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef improved in 2021, but that doesn’t mean the reef is ‘growing quickly,’ contrary to Daily Wire claim

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Study Shows The Great Barrier Reef Is Growing Quickly

SOURCE: Ben Zeisloft, The Daily Wire

Published: 30 Oct 2021

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The COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against hospitalization and death; number of vaccinated people in hospital does not indicate evidence against this

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“the vaccinated population accounted for 72% of Covid-19 hospitalisations”; “the vaccinated population accounted for 83% of Covid-19 deaths”

SOURCE: Alex Berenson, Jonathan Allen-Walker, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Exposé

Published: 27 Oct 2021

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Claims that a Harvard study showed COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective misrepresent the authors’ conclusions, fail to account for the study’s limitations

CLAIM
“Covid SURGES Among Most Vaxxed Communities Says Harvard Study”

SOURCE: Jimmy Dore, The Jimmy Dore Show

Published: 22 Oct 2021

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