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“Harmful ingredients in vaccines are “thimerosal, aluminum, aborted fetal tissue, chicken and eggs embryo.”
Social media posts Facebook. Claim dated 13 Jan 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading

What FactCheck.org found

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.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

This claim spread on social media around 13 January 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 January 2021, 9 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.

Where the claim appeared

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