Several vaccine opponents published a review article that questions mRNA COVID-19 vaccine safety. The paper calls to ban the vaccines and promotes the baseless claim that COVID-19 vaccines killed 14 times as many people as they have saved.
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Fact-Checking Source(s): PolitiFact, CIDRAP
Many posts sharing the paper emphasize its peer-reviewed status, which lends it the appearance of credibility. Messaging may highlight that although the paper is peer-reviewed, it is published in a journal that has been labeled “predatory” and has been criticized for its controversial post-publication peer-review process. Messaging may also emphasize that the review’s claim about vaccine-related deaths is based on unverified and noncredible data. Independent analyses of global data estimate that COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives worldwide.
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