Claim reviews
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
CLAIM
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
VERDICT
Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians
CLAIM
“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
VERDICT
There is no evidence that luciferase is an ingredient in the COVID-19 vaccines
CLAIM
Luciferase is in the COVID-19 vaccines to tag and track people
SOURCE: Emerald Robinson, Substack
Published: 11 Nov 2021
VERDICT
Article by The Exposé failed to account for caveats listed in U.K. vaccine surveillance reports; falsely claims fully vaccinated people have weakened immunity
CLAIM
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
VERDICT
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
CLAIM
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
VERDICT
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
VERDICT
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
VERDICT
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
CLAIM
Study Shows The Great Barrier Reef Is Growing Quickly
SOURCE: Ben Zeisloft, The Daily Wire
Published: 30 Oct 2021
VERDICT
The COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against hospitalization and death; number of vaccinated people in hospital does not indicate evidence against this
CLAIM
“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
VERDICT
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
VERDICT