Questions tagged [covid-19]
For questions regarding the coronavirus disease and its causes called COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO say the disease is caused by a virus that is itself called SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) but also known as the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCov, the Wuhan Coronavirus and "the Corona virus".
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Did the Covid vaccines lower fertility rates via causing infertility?
In this Slay News article, linked to by popular right-wing aggregator Off The Press:
According to independent journalist JD Rucker, the establishment media and their allies are ignoring the obvious. “...
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Did COVID-19 come to Italy months before the pandemic was declared? [duplicate]
A November 2020 Reuters article suggests that COVID-19 reached Italy earlier than the official first case, based on a study done by the Italian National Cancer Institute.
The new coronavirus was ...
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Did the grandson of John Rabe receive medicine from China during the start of COVID?
There is a story widely reported by prominent newspapers and government outlets in China that Thomas Rabe, the grandson of John Rabe, asked China for medicine and medical supplies at the start of the ...
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Did a CDC Study confirm a 13,200% increase in Autoimmune Heart Disease After Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines were administered?
This twitter post backed by this article makes the claim that a CDC study found a 13,200% increase in Autoimmune Heart Disease after taking a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine.
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Do COVID-19 vaccines cause myocarditis in younger men at a rate higher than the virus?
Dr Keith Moran is a practising physician and consultant in internal medicine with a Youtube Channel discussing medicine.
In May 2023, he posted a video talking about the risks of myocarditis (...
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Is COVID-19 no longer a public health emergency of international concern?
The WHO declares:
that COVID-19 is now an established and ongoing health issue which no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
Is it true that COVID-19 no ...
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Did Covid vaccines massively increase excess death in Australia in 2022?
From the Infowars article 5162% INCREASE IN EXCESS DEATH! Australian Government Data Shows MASS Vaccine Death Toll
Josh Sigurdson reports on the massive increase in excess death in Australia and ...
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Did Pfizer Australia give its employees different COVID-19 vaccinations to the general public?
A conspiracy-minded Facebook friend recently linked to the (Australian) Therapeutics Goods Administration's Batch release assessment of COVID-19 vaccines.
It lists seven batches of the COMIRNATY ...
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Did Sweden experience lower all-cause mortality during the pandemic?
Sections of the Australian media have been claiming recently that Sweden experienced lower excess deaths during the pandemic years compared with other countries, including Australia. The implication ...
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases ...
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Were Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers asking for reduced liability invoking the unprecedented testing schedule?
According to RebelNews, Canadian MP Anthony Housefather said
It's because these documents were signed at the beginning of the pandemic when everybody was desperate for vaccines, when companies were ...
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Was the testing of Covid-19 vaccines "rushed" or "unprecedented"?
Recently, a tweet was made by a Canadian politician, containing a video of a Canadian Member of Parliament, Anthony Housefather, who made some fairly outrageous claims regarding the production of ...
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Are pregnant women seven times more likely to die if they get Covid-19?
Accompanying a video on MSN News today (17th jan 023) is the following statement :
Pregnant women who catch Covid are SEVEN times more likely to die, warns new research. They are also at a "...
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Do more vaccines doses increase incidence of COVID-19 infections?
A December 2022 paper, Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Bivalent Vaccine is being passed around social media, by people who argue against the COVID vaccines.
They're focused on ...
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Does the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine destroy natural immunity in children?
A September 2022 article in The Daily Sceptic discusses a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on children between 5 and 11 ...
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Do reports from the UK show that Covid-19 vaccines had a higher mortality rate among children than the Covid Virus in 2021?
According to OAN, between January and December 2021 the covid-19 vaccine had a higher mortality rate among children than the covid virus (see linked video for full content):
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Does this paper show that the cluster of cases around Wuhan Institute of Virology was bigger than the cluster of cases around Huanan Seafood Market?
In this interim report on covid-19 released by the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, figure 5 shows a plot of the social media activity of Weibo users in a covid-...
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Did Florida manage a better COVID death rate than the US average despite strong resistance to prevention measures?
I was reading about Ron Desantis on Wikipedia and was a little surprised by the section about his handling of COVID-19 in Florida. It lists a huge number of actions to oppose standard COVID ...
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Does this graph show that there was an increase in GoFundMe campaigns relating to sudden deaths at the same time as the Pfizer vaccine was authorised? [closed]
Does this graph show that there has been an increase in the number of GoFundMe campaigns relating to sudden deaths, starting at the same time as the authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 ...
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Do Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 cause fewer cases of Long COVID than Delta variants?
The Australian Department of Health and Aging has recently published the National COVID-19 Health Management Plan for 2023.
I have seen criticism that it plays down the seriousness of "Long COVID&...
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Does getting more doses of COVID-19 vaccinations correlate to more hospitalisations in NSW, Australia?
Twitter user @LCHF_Matt has created a NSW Surveillance Report which is a dashboard that compare the rate of "events" (which can be configured to include COVID-19 deaths, COVID-19 ICU ...
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Are morticians finding huge blood clots as a result of Covid-19 vaccines in otherwise healthy adults that died suddenly?
Infowars is reporting that Covid-19 vaccines are causing blood clots.
For example, here:
Another article is here:
In this article, the story goes into more detail, with Infowars claiming that "...
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Did a Pfizer subcontractor compromise the integrity of some data in Pfizer's Covid vaccine trial?
According to Paul D Thacker in this article published in the BMJ, a whistleblower working for a subcontractor in Texas (Ventavia Research Group) reported a number of problems, and was then immediately ...
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Did recently released internal Pfizer documentation show a much lower efficacy rate for the vaccine than previously claimed?
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A search on Twitter for Pfizer currently shows many people talking about a supposed recent release of documentation (tens of thousands of pages) from Pfizer. A simple Internet search shows ...
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Does this article present an accurate summary of the (in)effectiveness of masks at preventing Covid-19 transmission? [closed]
I realize the question of effectiveness of masks in preventing Covid has already been asked here several times, but no recent one seems to have a conclusive answer. This article from JustFacts (I know ...
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Were Texas & Florida Hiding COVID-19 Data? [closed]
I remember reading that Texas and Florida (which have some high population density cities (and especially Florida with a high percentage of elderly, and hence at risk population) were not comparable ...
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Did "fossil-fuel pollution [kill] three times as many people as COVID-19 did" in 2020?
Bill McKibben writes for The New Yorker in a March 18, 2022 article titled "In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things" (emphasis added):
Our species depends on combustion; it made us human, ...
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Is the Omicron variant of COVID-19 milder than previous strains?
It is widely reported that the Omicron variant is much less dangerous than previous COVID-19 strains. Is there good scientific evidence to back this up or can the difference in hospitalization rates ...
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Did Dr. Fauci say that face masks don't work against COVID-19?
For a while, I've been a bit bothered by claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the US President, explicitly claimed that face masks don't work to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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Does Vitamin D defiency increase the mortality of a covid infection 12 times?
This 2021 study "Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and association with severity of COVID-19 illness" by Amiel A. Dror et al. reports:
Of the 253 individuals with pre-infection VitD ...
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Did 'border closure' have little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality?
I heard about a meta-analysis talking about lockdowns and how their affected border closures have had "little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality":
We use “mortality” and “mortality rates” ...
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Does Sweden require a vaccination certificate for travel?
According to this article from CTV News (a large news organization in Canada):
Sweden, which has had less COVID-19 restrictions than many countries, still uses a COVID-19 vaccine pass for travelling, ...
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Does taking ivermectin reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection by 83%?
I came across a study that makes the following claim (emphasis mine):
Two doses (300 μg/kg/dose in a gap of 72 hours) of ivermectin chemoprophylaxis reduced COVID-19 infection by 83% among HCWs for ...
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Did the drugs against COVID-19 whose EUA was revoked lead to a huge decline in hospitalization rates in Florida?
The FDA recently revoked the emergency use authorization for Regeneron and Eli Lilly. In this article, Ron Desantis claims that these medications led to “a huge decline” in hospitalization rates in ...
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Is there an unusual distribution of adverse events by lot number for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines?
This article which has been making rounds on social media for some time, insinuates that something nefarious is going on with the COVID-19 vaccines. It tries to prove this with the VAERS database by ...
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Are supermarket shelves in Australia currently empty because of absenteeism due to COVID?
A recent News.com.au article Scott Morrison announces change to isolation rules for workers in critical supply chain industries quotes Australia's Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly:
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Did the CDC say the RT-PCR test cannot distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses?
American economist and author Paul Craig Roberts wrote in a blog article, CDC Admits that the Covid Pandemic Was the Product of an Inappropriate Test:
Quietly without media attention, the Centers for ...
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Are you at increased risk of complications when receiving a vaccine shot/booster after you have had a symptomatic infection of Covid? [closed]
Someone has told me that there is a study/studies that exist that showed that getting a vaccine booster after having a symptomatic infection of covid, increases your risk for complications.
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Is COVID-vaccine-caused myocarditis milder than myocarditis in general?
Dr. Robert Malone is an American immunologist and virologist who has made controversial claims about the COVID-19 vaccines.
He was interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast, in an interview that was (...
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Is dancing at private New Year's Eve parties forbidden in WA, Australia?
Not The Bee has posted this commentary with a screenshot of some kind of an official WA authorities account claiming that dancing at private parties is not permitted:
I tried to verify if this is the ...
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Have there been no deaths due to omicron in Africa?
According to a widely-shared tweet (and also picked up by Townhall) (emphasis added):
Serious question since I'm not a dr. If omicron is contagious but not deadly (25,000 cases in Africa with no ...
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Does this study show vaccines are more likely to result in COVID-19 Omicron infection? [duplicate]
A popular tweet claims:
Holy moly.
This study shows that after three months the vaccine effectiveness of Pfizer & Moderna against Omicron is actually negative. Pfizer customers are 76.5% more ...
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Is the effectiveness of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against Omicron negative after three months?
This popular tweet (over 10000 retweets) claims that:
This study shows that after three months the vaccine effectiveness of
Pfizer & Moderna against Omicron is actually negative. Pfizer
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Does massaging a vaccinated arm reduce effectiveness of vaccine?
The Times of India claims that:
With intramuscular vaccines (most of the COVID-19
vaccine shots are delivered through this mean right now), rubbing,
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Were the Chinese tennis events cancelled by the WTA in relation to Peng Shuai already cancelled because of COVID-19?
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) announced it is cancelling "all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong" based on recent events surrounding Peng Shuai.
Long before #PengShuai’s ...
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Is over 96% of Moderna's revenue from their COVID-19 Vaccine?
In a recent YouTube video from "The Lotus Eaters", one of the anchors states that "During the previous quarter, Moderna's earnings on their shares were 4.97 billion overall, and the ...
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Does the COVID vaccine contain Graphene Hydroxide nano razor blades?
Psiram has a page about conspiracy theories around covid vaccines and them supposedly containing graphene oxide and graphene hydroxide. They link to credible sources debunking the claim that vaccines ...
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How long do COVID-19 vaccines last?
I have read many claims from (German) politicians COVID-19 vaccines only work for 6 to 9 month. It is being used to argue that vaccinations should be mandatory in Germany and Austria every 6 or 9 ...
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Does China's official position reject the "wet market origin theory" of COVID?
In an episode of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar says,
Even the Chinese don't try and push [...] the wet market theory. Their theory is basically like oh it was on some goods and it made it ...
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