“An Hour After Joe Biden Is Sworn In, WHO Admits Their Testing Grossly Overstates Individuals Testing Positive for COVID.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
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“Social media users suggest there is a direct link between baseball legend Hank Aaron getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and then dying more than two weeks later.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: Hank Aaron died from natural causes, according to the medical examiner’s office in Fulton County, Georgia. There’s no evidence that his death was a result of being vaccinated against COVID-19 in early January.
“So the vaccine don’t protect you from covid ???”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The vaccine does protect against COVID-19, which is the disease caused by the coronavirus; Fauci was simply cautioning that it may not prevent someone from contracting the virus.
“Harmful ingredients in vaccines are “thimerosal, aluminum, aborted fetal tissue, chicken and eggs embryo.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Research shows the ingredients in vaccines are not harmful. Also, the two U.S. authorized COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain any of those ingredients.
“Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed" in the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Official Tally
FactCheck.org says: One estimate is 420,000, but an official count is unavailable.
“Those who are vaccinated against COVID-19 will be injected with a microchip”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
“A nurse fainted as a side effect from taking the COVID vaccine”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Missing context
“Video shows "nurse pass out after receiving the COVID vaccine. It's so safe though, right?”
FactCheck.org rated this: Not caused by vaccine
FactCheck.org says: Anti-vaccine Facebook pages used an edited news clip to suggest the COVID-19 vaccine is unsafe. The clip shows a nurse fainting, but it doesn’t show her recovery afterward when she explains that she is prone to fainting.
“A nurse in Alabama has died approx 8-10 hours after receiving her C-19 vaccine.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: A false claim that a nurse died after getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Alabama has been feeding into the anti-vaccine disinformation online. Alabama’s health department reported that no one who got the vaccine has died.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is grouping "Pneumonia and Influenza and Covid together… and reports them all as Covid deaths.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“COVID-19 vaccines have a microchip that "tracks the location of the patient.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: A video claims that COVID-19 vaccines have a microchip that “tracks the location of the patient.” The chip, which is not currently in use, would provide information only about the vaccine dose. It cannot track people.
“Margaret Keenan, the first recipient of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K., is a "crisis actor" named Liz Scott.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Johns Hopkins Study Mysteriously Disappears after it Revealed, In Spite of COVID, No More Deaths in 2020 Than In Prior Years.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Kyle Rittenhouse used his COVID-19 stimulus check to purchase the AR-15 he used in the fatal Kenosha shooting.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Kyle Rittenhouse said he bought his gun with "$1,200 from the coronavirus Illinois unemployment," which muddles unemployment with the standalone stimulus checks. He apparently used boosted unemployment funds on the AR-15
“Danish study "“proves masks offer NO protection from COVID.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The authors of the study say their results “should not be used to conclude that a recommendation for everyone to wear masks in the community would not be effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infections."
“The patented dye Luciferase produced by MIT will help countries to check on who has been vaccinated”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: In 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology did develop a novel way to record patient’s MMR vaccine history using the luciferase enzyme. However, the same has not been approved for COVID-19 vaccine
“Naturally acquired COVID-19 99.9982% percent effective.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: It’s not known how immunity from vaccines compares to natural immunity -- and the entire point of a vaccine is to offer immunity without the risk of getting sick.
“Quotes Sen. David Perdue saying, "the risk of this virus ... still remains low.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Said on March 11
FactCheck.org says: To put these comments in the context of the moment, the day before the interview, there were about 1,500 COVID-19 cases in the U.S., with about 37 deaths.
“Sen. Kelly Loeffler “immediately” began “dumping stocks” after a January Senate briefing about the coronavirus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Disputed
FactCheck.org says: Loeffler said the decision to sell those stocks was made independently by third-party advisers overseeing her and her husband's investments — not her.
“Joe Biden’s Covid-19 taskforce member recommends withholding food stamps and rent assistance from those who refuse coronavirus vaccines.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False