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True: Four people in Bulgaria experienced side effects from the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

True: Four people in Bulgaria experienced side effects from the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

False: South African children are refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: South African children are refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

True: India vaccinated over 7 million people against COVID-19 within 26 days.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

True: India vaccinated over 7 million people against COVID-19 within 26 days.

Unverifiable: Israel's new COVID-19 drug showed 96 percent efficacy in clinical trials.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Unverifiable: Israel's new COVID-19 drug showed 96 percent efficacy in clinical trials.

Unverifiable: Planned Parenthood has abortion quotas.
Health-General Human Rights-General

Unverifiable: Planned Parenthood has abortion quotas.

Partly_True: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 500,000 Americans a year used to go bankrupt due to hefty medical bills.
Economics-General Health-General

Partly_True: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 500,000 Americans a year used to go bankrupt due to hefty medical bills.

False: There are 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19.
Health-Covid

False: There are 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19.

Misleading: DC Council passed a bill that allows children to be vaccinated without parental consent.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Human Rights-General

Misleading: DC Council passed a bill that allows children to be vaccinated without parental consent.

Misleading: A woman exposed an empty hospital in ‘Covid Hotspot.’
Health-Covid

Misleading: A woman exposed an empty hospital in ‘Covid Hotspot.’

True: Norwegian health officials have revised their vaccine advice protocol after suspicions over the vaccine's efficacy surfaced.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

True: Norwegian health officials have revised their vaccine advice protocol after suspicions over the vaccine's efficacy surfaced.

False: The COVID-19 vaccine will alter our genome, changing the way we live and who we are.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: The COVID-19 vaccine will alter our genome, changing the way we live and who we are.

False: In the U.S., nearly 200 people die every day due to a lack of access to basic health insurance.
Health-General Human Rights-General

False: In the U.S., nearly 200 people die every day due to a lack of access to basic health insurance.

Misleading: With COVID-19, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for any harm done. If people are killed, hurt, paralyzed, or maimed for life—it doesn't matter.
Health-Pharma Health-Vaccines

Misleading: With COVID-19, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for any harm done. If people are killed, hurt, paralyzed, or maimed for life—it doesn't matter.

False: Genetically modified fruits and vegetables are not as healthy as genetically unmodified fruits and vegetables.
Health-General

False: Genetically modified fruits and vegetables are not as healthy as genetically unmodified fruits and vegetables.

Misleading: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has an efficacy rate of less than 10 percent for those over 65.
Conspiracies-General Health-Pharma

Misleading: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has an efficacy rate of less than 10 percent for those over 65.

True: New York COVID-19 nursing home deaths may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent.
Events-General Health-Covid

True: New York COVID-19 nursing home deaths may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent.

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