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The Infodemic: No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Pose Risk to Pregnancy


FILE - A health worker holds a tray with vials of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 during a priority vaccination program at a community medical center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 6, 2021.
FILE - A health worker holds a tray with vials of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 during a priority vaccination program at a community medical center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 6, 2021.

Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here​.

Daily Debunk

Claim: “920 Women Lose Their Unborn Babies After Getting Vaccinated.”

Verdict: Misleading

Read the full story at: FactCheck.org

Social Media Disinfo

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Circulating on social media: Claim that electronic devices "recognize" people who have received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, and that anyone who receives the vaccine will become "magnetic," will have their DNA altered and will die from blood clots.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse

Factual Reads on Coronavirus

WHO Chief Urges China to Cooperate With Probe Into Covid-19 Origins
Group of Seven leaders conferring at summit in England discussed causes of the global pandemic.
-- Wall Street Journal (via Mint), June 12

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