A widely shared social media post promotes the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccines are being used for population control. The post references Pfizer documents but does not cite any specific report as evidence for the claim. The post has been shared nearly 5,500 times and has over 20,000 total engagements.
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There is nothing in the Pfizer FDA documents to support the baseless claim that the COVID-19 vaccine is population control. Conspiracies have persisted for decades that vaccines are being used as a tool to control or harm people. Experts agree that depopulation conspiracies circulating in communities that have experienced unethical medical research or experimentation can only be combated by first acknowledging that serious abuses have occurred in the past and that these abuses are what led to the safeguards that exist now. Continuing to emphasize that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and rigorously tested is recommended, as is explaining that the vaccines work to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Fact Checking Source(s):
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