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False: The 2019 Military World Games was a vector for spreading the coronavirus in the US and around the world.
Health-Covid Media-Sports

False: The 2019 Military World Games was a vector for spreading the coronavirus in the US and around the world.

False: The Chinese Communist Party planned on using U.S. Rep. Eric Smalwell (D-Calif.) as a vector to spread COVID-19 by sending a spy to get close to him.
Geopolitical-General Health-Covid

False: The Chinese Communist Party planned on using U.S. Rep. Eric Smalwell (D-Calif.) as a vector to spread COVID-19 by sending a spy to get close to him.

False: The coronavirus is the deadliest virus known to humans.
Health-Covid

False: The coronavirus is the deadliest virus known to humans.

False: COVID-19 vaccines will cause a slow death.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: COVID-19 vaccines will cause a slow death.

False: The COVID vaccine "death wave" will kill the vaccinated and hunt the unvaccinated.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: The COVID vaccine "death wave" will kill the vaccinated and hunt the unvaccinated.

Misleading: More than 4,000 fully vaccinated people have been hospitalized or died with COVID-19 in the U.S.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: More than 4,000 fully vaccinated people have been hospitalized or died with COVID-19 in the U.S.

True: Bone death has been recorded in post-COVID-19 patients in India.
Health-General Health-Covid

True: Bone death has been recorded in post-COVID-19 patients in India.

False: When COVID-19 vaccines were given emergency use authorization, authorities had no idea if they would work.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: When COVID-19 vaccines were given emergency use authorization, authorities had no idea if they would work.

Misleading: 62 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the U.K. are among people who are vaccinated.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: 62 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the U.K. are among people who are vaccinated.

Misleading: People over the age of 50 who are unvaccinated account for just 10% of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.K.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: People over the age of 50 who are unvaccinated account for just 10% of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.K.

True: Covishield has been excluded from the European Union's digital COVID-19 certificate program.
Health-Covid Health-Pharma Health-Vaccines

True: Covishield has been excluded from the European Union's digital COVID-19 certificate program.

Misleading: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines had never been used on humans.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines had never been used on humans.

False: Madagascar has quit the World Heath Organization (WHO) over backlash against its proposed herbal remedy for COVID 19.
Health-Covid Tech-Social-Media

False: Madagascar has quit the World Heath Organization (WHO) over backlash against its proposed herbal remedy for COVID 19.

False: The former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock lied when he said that vaccines are “our route back to normal.”
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: The former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock lied when he said that vaccines are “our route back to normal.”

False: Abuse towards England's Chief Medical Advisor Professor Chris Whitty was staged.
Health-Covid Tech-Social-Media

False: Abuse towards England's Chief Medical Advisor Professor Chris Whitty was staged.

False: Former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has died of COVID-19.
Health-Covid Politics-People

False: Former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has died of COVID-19.

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