Vaccine misinformation

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  Fact Check: Switzerland Did NOT Order 'Immediate Halt' To COVID-19 Vaccinations Claiming 'More Harm Than Good' | Lead Stories

  leadstories.com - Madison Dapcevich

  98% Immunity Did Switzerland health officials declare in April 2023 that COVID-19 vaccines do "more harm than good" and order an "immediate halt" to …

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  No, farmers aren’t required to vaccinate livestock with mRNA vaccines

  Associated Press - Angelo Fichera

  CLAIM: Farmers and ranchers are required to inject livestock with mRNA vaccines. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no mandate in the U.S. that livestock receive certain vaccines and there are no COVID-19 mRNA vaccines licensed for animals, as some online have suggested. THE FACTS: Both messenger RNA, …

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  Georgia school form on sudden cardiac arrest risks isn’t new

  Associated Press - Angelo Fichera

  CLAIM: A “Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Form” is now being issued in Georgia high schools, suggesting a new phenomenon relating to the COVID-19 vaccines. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. That form has been given to families of Georgia students since 2019. A spokesperson for the high school association that …

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  Fact check: No link between Lisa Marie Presley and post about the COVID-19 vaccine

  USA TODAY - Hannah Hudnall

  The claim: Lisa Marie Presley shared post about getting the COVID-19 vaccine before her death A Jan. 13 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) discusses the recent death of singer Lisa Marie Presley alongside a screenshot of a 2022 Facebook post on the COVID-19 vaccine. "The idea of having a …

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  Did Moderna CEO 'Admit' to Making COVID-19 Vaccine Before the Disease Had a Name?

  Snopes - Alex Kasprak

  The fact that a pharmaceutical company was working on a vaccine for a pandemic disease that had been discovered a month earlier is not a revelation. A …

• This NPR profile traces the journey of a popular yoga teacher who fell down the rabbit hole of QAnon conspiracy theories online during the pandemic

  

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  She was a popular yoga guru. Then she embraced QAnon conspiracy theories

  NPR - Emily Guerin

  QAnon — the baseless conspiracy theory that claims that a cabal of Satan-worshipping, blood-drinking elites control politics and media — is closely identified in political circles with some supporters of former President Donald Trump. But it also has a toehold in yoga and wellness circles. Themes …