Alerts are categorized as high, medium, and low risk.
  • High risk alerts: Narratives with widespread circulation across communities, high engagement, exponential velocity, and a high potential to impact health decisions. Are often more memorable than accurate information.
  • Medium risk alerts: Narratives that are circulating in priority populations and pose some threat to health. Potential for further spread due to the tactics used or because of predicted velocity. Often highlights the questions and concerns of people.
  • Low risk alerts: Narratives that are limited in reach, don’t impact your community, or lack the qualities necessary for future spread. May indicate information gaps, confusion, or concerns.

A well-known vaccine opponent baselessly speculated that so-called “white lung” pneumonia may be linked to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

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Several conspiracy sites and vaccine opponents are claiming that the former Italian health minister is under investigation for murder related to COVID-19 vaccine deaths. This claim appears to have originated from a November article on an Italian right-wing news site.

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A popular vaccine opponent is using a recent ethics study about the treatment of unvaccinated people during the pandemic to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines never worked and that vaccinated people are more likely than unvaccinated people to get COVID-19.

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A popular social media account with nearly 600,000 followers shared an image of what is allegedly a blood clot removed from the lungs of a man vaccinated against COVID-19. The man claims he is certain that “Pfizer jabs” landed him in the ER. Notably, in other posts, the man admits that he believes he had an issue with blood clots prior to the pandemic and claims to have had a serious COVID-19 infection that resulted in pneumonia last year.

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The Florida surgeon general sent a letter to the FDA asking the agency to address concerns about DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines increasing cancer risk. The letter suggests that the presence of trace DNA fragments in COVID-19 vaccines could “theoretically” trigger cancer growth. Vaccine opponents are circulating the letter as confirmation of the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Several posts claim that an uptick in pediatric pneumonia cases in Ohio is “mysterious” and somehow linked to the pneumonia outbreak in China. Some online users have also falsely claimed pneumonia is a vaccine side effect.  

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Several clips from a December 4 meeting at the U.K. Parliament are circulating online, including several prominent vaccine opponents repeating false and misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines.

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Several trending social media posts are falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines caused the mycoplasma pneumonia outbreak in China. Some posts claim that flu and RSV vaccines can also cause the condition. Many of the posts claiming this cite an adverse event report that has been circulated without context by vaccine opponents to claim that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe.

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A health worker allegedly leaked COVID-19 data that he claims shows excess deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines in New Zealand. The worker has been arrested and charged for unauthorized access and disclosure of private vaccination data, according to Te Whatu Ora, New Zealand’s public health agency. Conspiracists claim the worker has been targeted for exposing vaccine danger. A well-known vaccine opponent presented his analysis of the illegally obtained data during a presentation in which he claimed that COVID-19 vaccines have killed 13 million people worldwide.

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A U.K. oncologist falsely claimed that, based on his observations, COVID-19 vaccines are causing accelerated forms of cancers. There is no evidence to back up these claims.

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Alerts are categorized as high, medium, and low risk.
  • High risk alerts: Narratives with widespread circulation across communities, high engagement, exponential velocity, and a high potential to impact health decisions. Are often more memorable than accurate information.
  • Medium risk alerts: Narratives that are circulating in priority populations and pose some threat to health. Potential for further spread due to the tactics used or because of predicted velocity. Often highlights the questions and concerns of people.
  • Low risk alerts: Narratives that are limited in reach, don’t impact your community, or lack the qualities necessary for future spread. May indicate information gaps, confusion, or concerns.
Vaccine Misinformation Guide

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Vaccine Misinformation Guide

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