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Checked by PolitiFact15 Mar 2021United StatesHealth
Social media posts

“Vaccines send the immune system into “perpetual overdrive” by instructing cells to keep “making the protein of an invader, nonstop, forever and ever.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The COVID-19 vaccines that use mRNA technology don't instruct the immune system to make the virus’ proteins forever. The mRNA instructions are given at the time of vaccination and are broken down by the body within days

Checked by FactCheck.org12 Mar 2021United StatesHealth
Children's Health Defense, Anti-vaccination organization

“A 2004 “study discovered that African-American boys who receive the MMR vaccine ‘on-time’ by the age of 3 are 3.36 times more likely to be diagnosed with severe autism as Black boys who waited until they were older.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Not What Study Found

FactCheck.org says: That’s not what the study found. That’s what a purported reanalysis of the data claimed to find a decade later and that paper was retracted.