On July 23, Nature published a study assessing potential associations between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune diseases in 9 million people. The study concluded that the vaccines don’t increase the risk of any disease except systemic lupus erythematosus, for which the risk was 16 percent higher in vaccinated people. Vaccine opponents falsely claim that the study proves that the vaccines cause a host of autoimmune diseases, including so-called vaccine-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or VAIDS.
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