“15-year-old boy passes away from heart attack two days after Pfizer COVID-19 experimental jab.”
Social media posts
Internet. Claim dated 5 May 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A report was made to a federal database that a 15-year-old in Colorado died two days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Reports can be made by anyone and are not verified before being entered into the database.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 5 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 May 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/NIbI9
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