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Claim: In May 2021, voters in five Oregon counties passed ballot measures to advance a plan to secede from the state and become part of Idaho. In May 2021, news outlets reported that a handful of counties in rural Oregon had voted in favor of moving towards seceding from the state and joining …
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Did a 2-Year-Old in Virginia Die After Getting COVID-19 Vaccination? | Snopes.com A 2-year-old baby girl in Virginia died after being given the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Context Despite claims to the contrary on social media, no clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for 2-year-olds existed at the …
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Did Prince Philip Say He Wanted To Be Reincarnated as a Deadly Virus? | Snopes.com Prince Philip said that he would like to be reincarnated as a deadly virus as a form of revenge against human overpopulation. Origin Virtually every list of Prince Philip’s verbal gaffes ever written includes a quote …
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Claim: The blue blood of horseshoe crabs is required for the production of COVID-19 vaccines. What’s True A chemical compound found in the blood of horseshoe crabs is widely used in the biomedical community to test for the presence of bacterial exposure or infection. This limulus amebocyte lysate …
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Claim: On Feb. 16, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden falsely claimed a COVID-19 vaccine did not exist when he began his term. What’s True At one point during a CNN town hall on Feb. 16, Biden said: “It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office.” It appears that …
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Claim: Poll workers in Georgia’s Senate runoff election illegally uncovered 50,000 ballots in the early morning hours of Jan. 6, 2021. Shortly after Democrat Raphael Warnock was announced the winner of one of Georgia’s two Senate runoff races on Jan. 6, 2021, putting the Senate majority within the …
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Claim: In December 2020, a U.S. federal omnibus spending bill that included COVID-19 relief started a 180-day countdown to an unclassified report on UFO disclosures. In late December 2020 and early January 2021, Snopes readers asked whether it was true that U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of …
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Claim: An image shows a CNN report on an outbreak of cannibalism among COVID-19 vaccine recipients. In December 2020, as the U.S. began the first vaccinations for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, social media users circulated a related image of a purported news account. The image looked to be a …
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Claim: A rapidly approved drug known as thalidomide was not rigorously tested before being prescribed to pregnant women, ultimately leading to “malformations in newborns” born to women who were prescribed the drug. The so-called “thalidomide tragedy” provides a possible case study for the …
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Claim: Four patients who took a trial COVID-19 vaccine developed Bell’s palsy. What’s True Four out of more than 20,000 patients who took Pfizer’s trial vaccine for COVID-19 developed bell’s palsy. What’s False As of this writing, there’s no definitive evidence that the vaccine caused Bell’s palsy. …
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