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True: The risk of children developing serious illness due to COVID-19 is extremely low.
Health-Covid

True: The risk of children developing serious illness due to COVID-19 is extremely low.

Partly_True: The JCVI refused to recommend the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children.
Health-Covid Health-Pharma Health-Vaccines

Partly_True: The JCVI refused to recommend the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children.

False: There have been at least 1.18 million adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines in the U.K. alone.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: There have been at least 1.18 million adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines in the U.K. alone.

False: Children have died and are dying due to COVID-19 vaccines.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: Children have died and are dying due to COVID-19 vaccines.

Misleading: In clinical trial(s), 86 percent of children suffered an adverse reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Pharma Health-Vaccines

Misleading: In clinical trial(s), 86 percent of children suffered an adverse reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

Misleading: The CDC acknowledged that vaccinated people carry the same viral load as unvaccinated people.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: The CDC acknowledged that vaccinated people carry the same viral load as unvaccinated people.

False: Four former heads of state in Africa were assassinated during the COVID-19 pandemic for opposing the vaccines.
Health-Covid Politics-People

False: Four former heads of state in Africa were assassinated during the COVID-19 pandemic for opposing the vaccines.

Partly_True: Silver nanoparticles have a potent antiviral effect on the coronavirus.
Health-Covid

Partly_True: Silver nanoparticles have a potent antiviral effect on the coronavirus.

False: Top medical regulators in the U.S., EU and U.K. are resigning over the experimental mRNA COVID vaccines.
Geopolitical-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: Top medical regulators in the U.S., EU and U.K. are resigning over the experimental mRNA COVID vaccines.

Misleading: Public and Private schools in Punjab are closed until September 30 due to COVID-19.
Health-Covid

Misleading: Public and Private schools in Punjab are closed until September 30 due to COVID-19.

Partly_True: Lines across your fingernails indicate that you have had COVID-19.
Health-Covid

Partly_True: Lines across your fingernails indicate that you have had COVID-19.

False: Doctors in the U.K. will be paid an extra £10 for every child they vaccinate, and Google is trying to hide it.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: Doctors in the U.K. will be paid an extra £10 for every child they vaccinate, and Google is trying to hide it.

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of death due to COVID-19 for under 50s by up to 177.5 percent.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of death due to COVID-19 for under 50s by up to 177.5 percent.

Misleading: In the U.K., the COVID-19 hospitalization and fatality rate in fully vaccinated people under the age of 50 is 175 percent higher than in unvaccinated people.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: In the U.K., the COVID-19 hospitalization and fatality rate in fully vaccinated people under the age of 50 is 175 percent higher than in unvaccinated people.

False: The COVID-19 patients talking about their illnesses featured in a public health announcement from the New South Wales government are paid actors.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Media-General

False: The COVID-19 patients talking about their illnesses featured in a public health announcement from the New South Wales government are paid actors.

False: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was attacked by a woman because of his policies on COVID-19.
Health-Covid Politics-People Politics-Policy

False: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was attacked by a woman because of his policies on COVID-19.

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