Posts falsely link singer’s death to COVID-19 vaccine

Shortly after a country singer passed away in his sleep, vaccine conspiracists began baselessly claiming that COVID-19 vaccines caused his death. The bogus evidence for the claim is that the singer was vaccinated in April 2021.

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