A doctor with a large social media following shared a post claiming that an Oklahoma man died after doctors refused to treat his COVID-19 infection with ivermectin and instead treated him with remdesivir. Recommendation: These types of posts may promote distrust in COVID-19 treatment options recommended by doctors and may...
The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shared a post about long COVID on the department’s social media page. Several comments on the post falsely claimed that long COVID is caused by COVID-19 vaccines, not by COVID-19 infection. Recommendation: These types of posts promote confusion about the cause...
In a video with millions of views, a popular right-wing political commentator calls for doctors to apologize for “wrongly” recommending COVID-19 vaccines. The clip has been widely circulated in multiple languages. Recommendation: The video attempts to undermine trust not only in COVID-19 vaccines but also in doctors, who are a...
Social media posts in both English and Spanish resurfaced misleading claims about a study linking the flu vaccine with potential stroke risk and casting doubt on the vaccine’s safety. One user inaccurately claimed that older adults who received the flu vaccine had a stroke 42 days after being vaccinated....
Posts in both English and Spanish are falsely claiming that blood donations from people vaccinated against COVID-19 are not safe, based on a preprint literature review from Japan. The study the users cite recommends suspending mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations to avoid “spike protein contamination.” Recommendation: These types of posts falsely equate...
A social media post claimed that the Avalanche, a Colorado-based National Hockey League team, is “killing and injuring” its players and staff by requiring COVID-19 vaccines. The post claimed that an Avalanche player who recently died by suicide was experiencing exacerbated mental illness symptoms due to COVID-19 vaccination. Recommendation: These...
A provision in the Texas State Budget prohibits promoting or advertising COVID-19 vaccines in 2024 and 2025, but still allows entities from the state health department to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. A recent news article about the provision has sparked discussion online, with most posts and comments advocating against it. Recommendation:...
Multiple social media posts cited a recent Ohio State University study to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of death from COVID-19 infection. The study, which was published in Frontiers in Immunology in February, followed 112 patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 infections and concluded with caution that...
A social media post falsely claimed that pharmaceutical companies in Massachusetts “manufactured” the COVID-19 pandemic for profit. The post attempted to back this false claim by stating that there are many pharmaceutical companies, including the headquarters of Moderna and Pfizer, in Massachusetts, and that the CDC director is from Massachusetts....
Within minutes of Kate Middleton revealing that she is in cancer treatment, some vaccine conspiracists began circulating the false claim that she has “turbo cancer” caused by mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Several viral posts resurfaced misrepresented pre-pandemic cancer incidence data to claim that COVID-19 vaccines are behind rising cancer rates in...
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