Father and daughter’s deaths used to promote COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

A 25-year-old recent pharmacy school graduate who helped run vaccine clinics died of unknown causes late last year. Some vaccine opponents immediately speculated that the death was related to COVID-19 vaccines. Several weeks after the woman’s death, her father suffered an aortic dissection, a tear on the lining of the major blood vessel in the heart. The same bad actors are now claiming that both deaths were vaccine-related.

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