![]() In addition to blaming the vaccine for deaths that did not, as far as we can tell, happen, anti-vaccine activists are also attributing deaths caused by COVID-19 to the vaccine. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Claims Deaths Unrelated – or Potentially Unrelated – to Vaccines Nonetheless, the unnamed screenshot is shared as fact on anti-vaccine sites. Maybe the mother-in-law died, but there is no evidence to indicate it. The fourth claim, too, involved an unnamed screenshot of someone’s mother-in-law. But the Alabama health department checked and found no such death.Īnother young woman had to go online and make a video alerting viewers to the fact that she is not, in fact, dead. In another case, an unnamed screenshot alleged that the speaker’s aunt, a nurse in Alabama, died. There is even a Facebook group seeking “Justice for Tiffany Dover” (who is not dead). Anti-vaccine activists claimed that she died, and the claim is still being spread on Facebook, along with her personal photos, a fake obituary, and attacks on her and her family. The most extreme example is nurse Tiffany Dover, who fainted for a moment after her vaccine – and immediately revived. In at least four cases that I know of, the anti-vaccine movement has made baseless claims that people have died from COVID-19 vaccines. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Spreads Fake Death Stories ![]() And it is inevitable that the anti-vaccine movement will take advantage of that to create fear and doubt. It is inevitable that, with millions of people vaccinated, some adverse events will happen subsequently, by coincidence alone. That’s how many people die and get sick anyway.īut if you took those ten million people and gave them a new vaccine instead, there’s a real danger that those heart attacks, cancer diagnoses, and deaths will be attributed to the vaccine.” And about 14,000 of that ten million will die, out of usual all-causes mortality. “…if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. Derek Lowe warned us about coming “ false side effects” from COVID-19 vaccines. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use – Dr. In a prescient article from Decem– before either Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna’s vaccine was authorized by the U.S. This post will focus on one type of misinformation: alleged deaths from COVID-19 vaccines. ![]() Liability protections for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are real but they are not evidence that the vaccines are unsafe. They continue to spread these allegations, for example, using the fact that there are liability protections for COVID-19 vaccines to imply the vaccines are dangerous. In June, anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree described COVID-19 as a “cold,” blamed those who died for their own deaths, and called on his followers to “catch that cold.”Īnd from the beginning, anti-vaccine activists were committed to the ideas that COVID-19 vaccines would not work, would be dangerous, and would be promoted by a nefarious global conspiracy. In March 2020, anti-vaccine activists incorrectly alleged – by misrepresenting a study – that flu vaccines increase COVID-19 risks. In relation to COVID-19, anti-vaccine activists have aggressively promoted misinformation from the start of the pandemic. It’s worth emphasizing that this blog post is focused on the anti-vaccine movement, not people with concerns about vaccines (the “vaccine hesitant”). ![]() We need to be aware of its efforts, and be prepared to respond. The anti-vaccine movement is aggressively working to promote misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, up to and including promoting fake claims of deaths from vaccines.
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