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Misleading: Lawyers worldwide have submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court alleging that COVID-19 vaccines are in violation of international law.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: Lawyers worldwide have submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court alleging that COVID-19 vaccines are in violation of international law.
Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines don't work because most people in U.K. hospitals with the virus are vaccinated.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines don't work because most people in U.K. hospitals with the virus are vaccinated.
False: It is safer to get COVID-19 than take a vaccine against the virus.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: It is safer to get COVID-19 than take a vaccine against the virus.
False: COVID-19 vaccines are weakening immune systems.
Health-Covid

False: COVID-19 vaccines are weakening immune systems.
False: Ayurvedic practitioner Anandaiah's herbal medicine cures COVID-19.
Health-Covid

False: Ayurvedic practitioner Anandaiah's herbal medicine cures COVID-19.
False: The media are showing mannequins in French hospitals in place of COVID-19 patients.
Health-Covid Tech-Social-Media

False: The media are showing mannequins in French hospitals in place of COVID-19 patients.
False: COVID-19 test kits have both positive and negative swabs to pre-determine results.
Health-Covid

False: COVID-19 test kits have both positive and negative swabs to pre-determine results.
Unverifiable: The Covishield vaccine may provide lifetime immunity against COVID-19.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Unverifiable: The Covishield vaccine may provide lifetime immunity against COVID-19.
Misleading: A 16-year-old student died due to the aftereffect of the COVID-19 vaccination in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: A 16-year-old student died due to the aftereffect of the COVID-19 vaccination in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Misleading: Instances of serious crimes in Uttar Pradesh in 2020 were the lowest since 2013.
Events-General Health-Covid

Misleading: Instances of serious crimes in Uttar Pradesh in 2020 were the lowest since 2013.
False: Nearly 96 percent of Omicron cases were among the fully vaccinated, German government reports.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: Nearly 96 percent of Omicron cases were among the fully vaccinated, German government reports.
False: Consuming burnt oranges helps regain the sense of taste and smell lost due to COVID-19.
Health-Covid

False: Consuming burnt oranges helps regain the sense of taste and smell lost due to COVID-19.
False: More people are dying from the COVID-19 vaccine than from the virus.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: More people are dying from the COVID-19 vaccine than from the virus.
Misleading: Mass formation psychosis caused people to follow pandemic protocol.
Health-Covid

Misleading: Mass formation psychosis caused people to follow pandemic protocol.
False: It is unsafe for breastfeeding women to take COVID-19 vaccines.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: It is unsafe for breastfeeding women to take COVID-19 vaccines.
False: The Omicron variant causes heart attack and blood clots in an infected individual.
Health-General Health-Covid

False: The Omicron variant causes heart attack and blood clots in an infected individual.
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