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Bloggers stated on December 4, 2021 in a blog post:

"2,809 Dead Babies in VAERS Following COVID Shots as New Documents Prove Pfizer, the FDA, and the CDC Knew the Shots Were Not Safe for Pregnant Women"

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 15, 2021

TikTok posts stated on July 18, 2021 in a TikTok video:

“The Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System shows that 5,946 people have died because of the” COVID-19 vaccine.

By Tom Kertscher • August 9, 2021

Facebook posts stated on January 26, 2025 in Facebook posts:

“Pfizer just released its list of side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine.”

By Sofia Ahmed • January 30, 2025

Facebook posts stated on April 5, 2024 in Facebook posts:

COVID-19 “vaccine injuries exposed in newly uncovered data.”

By Sofia Ahmed • April 17, 2024

Instagram posts stated on February 4, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Paper shows “mRNA COVID-19 vaccines caused more deaths” than lives saved.

By Sara Swann • February 9, 2024

Instagram posts stated on January 22, 2024 in an Instagram post:

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine “shuts off” recipients’ hearts.

By Sara Swann • January 29, 2024

Steve Kirsch stated on August 8, 2023 in a blog post:

COVID-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans.

By Tom Kertscher • August 14, 2023

Instagram posts stated on May 22, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“AIDS-associated diseases and cancers have increased by 338x since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, according to the CDC and foreign government bodies."

By Samantha Putterman • May 24, 2023

Instagram posts stated on May 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Pregnant women getting the Tdap vaccine “voluntarily are quite literally the experiment.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 18, 2023

Instagram posts stated on March 31, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Report proves that COVID-19 vaccines caused 300,000 excess deaths in 2022.

By Jeff Cercone • April 6, 2023

Scott Adams stated on January 23, 2023 in an Instagram post:

People not vaccinated against COVID-19 “came out the best."

By Tom Kertscher • January 26, 2023

Instagram posts stated on December 10, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Pfizer confirmed stiff-person syndrome is an adverse effect of the COVID-19 vaccine.

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 15, 2022

Instagram posts stated on October 19, 2022 in a post:

The diphtheria vaccine is a “poison dart” with side effects worse than the symptoms of diphtheria.

By Andy Nguyen • October 24, 2022

Facebook posts stated on July 24, 2022 in a blog post shared on Facebook:

“‘Monkeypox’ is only circulating in countries where the Pfizer vaccine has been distributed and is being used to advance a Technocratic Great Reset."

By Madison Czopek • July 29, 2022

One America News stated on April 12, 2022 in a video:

"Pfizer tries to hide 2.4K full-time hires handling vax injuries."

By Vivian Lam • May 5, 2022

Facebook posts stated on April 3, 2022 in a post:

Sudden death in adults and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome are caused by vaccines.

By Monique Curet • April 6, 2022

Bloggers stated on March 1, 2022 in a video:

The drug labels for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine “were blank when they should have contained all these diseases and adverse events" listed in a confidential report.

By Vivian Lam • March 23, 2022

Facebook posts stated on March 9, 2022 in a video:

"People who have had cancer in the past, they get the COVID jab and now, they're getting cancer two to three, four months later and it's the same cancer they had except much worse."

By Monique Curet • March 11, 2022

Instagram posts stated on February 14, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Says the FDA said that Pfizer “falsely misled” the agency about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and that the shots are killing more people than they save.

By Samantha Putterman • February 17, 2022

Infowars stated on February 5, 2022 in an InfoWars video:

"Study proves children’s hearts destroyed by COVID vaccine."

By Vivian Lam • February 15, 2022

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Articles (11)

Nurse gives a little boy the Pfizer vaccine

How an alternative gateway to VAERS data helps fuel vaccine misinformation

By Gabrielle Settles • February 28, 2022

Heather Simpson, podcaster and freelance writer

Federal VAERS database is a critical tool for researchers, but a breeding ground for misinformation

By Gabrielle Settles • May 3, 2021

Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • March 15, 2024

Who is Robert Malone? Joe Rogan’s guest was a vaccine scientist, became an anti-vaccine darling

By Bill McCarthy • January 6, 2022

PolitiFact’s guide to commonly misunderstood vaccine terms, and how to talk about them

By Samantha Putterman • November 23, 2021

Patient refusing doctor medicine with hand

Licensed doctors who spread COVID-19 disinformation face no consequences, report shows

By Victoria Knight • September 22, 2021

Doubts raised over preprint study regarding myocarditis risk in teenage boys

By Samantha Putterman • September 20, 2021

A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. July 22, 2021 (AP)

V-Safe: How everyday people help the CDC track COVID-19 vaccine safety with their phones

By Amanda Michelle Gomez • August 26, 2021

10 types of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation swirling online, fact-checked

By Bill McCarthy • July 26, 2021

Should I get a COVID-19 vaccination? Answering questions for vaccine skeptics

By Samantha Putterman, Noah Y. Kim • May 27, 2021

Answering questions, concerns about the coronavirus vaccines

By Daniel Funke • April 14, 2021