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False: Nasal swabs used in COVID-19 testing are unsafe because they have been sterilized with ethylene oxide.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: Nasal swabs used in COVID-19 testing are unsafe because they have been sterilized with ethylene oxide.

False: The myocarditis warnings on COVID-19 vaccines in Japan mean that the vaccines are lethal.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: The myocarditis warnings on COVID-19 vaccines in Japan mean that the vaccines are lethal.

Misleading: The rising COVID-19 infections in Gibraltar prove that vaccines are ineffective.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: The rising COVID-19 infections in Gibraltar prove that vaccines are ineffective.

Partly_True: Pakistan purchased COVID-19 vaccines from China.
Events-Humanitarian Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Partly_True: Pakistan purchased COVID-19 vaccines from China.

Misleading: The COVID-19 vaccine is a transfection agent that will genetically modify us.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: The COVID-19 vaccine is a transfection agent that will genetically modify us.

Misleading: A woman based in New York lost custody of her child because she refused to wear a mask in public.
Health-General Events-General Health-Covid

Misleading: A woman based in New York lost custody of her child because she refused to wear a mask in public.

False: You are at greater risk from COVID-19 vaccines than from COVID-19 itself.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: You are at greater risk from COVID-19 vaccines than from COVID-19 itself.

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective as the recovery rate is high in the U.S.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective as the recovery rate is high in the U.S.

False: Dr. Fauci gains profits from pharmaceutical companies.
Health-General Conspiracies-General Health-Covid

False: Dr. Fauci gains profits from pharmaceutical companies.

False: Hospitals were not overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients with COVID-19.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Politics-General

False: Hospitals were not overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients with COVID-19.

False: COVID-19 is a rebrand of the seasonal flu.
Health-Covid

False: COVID-19 is a rebrand of the seasonal flu.

False: The government is lying about the risks of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Politics-General

False: The government is lying about the risks of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people.

True: Kumbh Mela was a COVID-19 superspreader event.
Events-General Health-Covid

True: Kumbh Mela was a COVID-19 superspreader event.

True: Russia's Coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V will be available for public use by the end of 2020.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

True: Russia's Coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V will be available for public use by the end of 2020.

False: The fine for not wearing a mask in Mumbai is Rs 1000.
Health-Covid Politics-Policy

False: The fine for not wearing a mask in Mumbai is Rs 1000.

A fake image of people carrying the body of a COVID-19 positive person on a bicycle is viral in India.
Health-Covid Tech-Social-Media

A fake image of people carrying the body of a COVID-19 positive person on a bicycle is viral in India.

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