“Report finds increased risk of spontaneous abortion following COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy” after correcting “major error” in CDC study.”
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Claim dated 1 Nov 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A report misrepresents data from a CDC study on COVID-19 vaccination and spontaneous abortions by excluding the majority of the sample to produce inflated miscarriage rates.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 November 2021, 11 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- popularrationalism.substack.comhttps://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/report-finds-increased-risk-of-spontaneous
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