Disinfo: COVID-19 vaccine will cause more deaths than COVID-19; it is a plot to reduce population

Summary

The COVID-19 vaccine has huge negative effects on human health and will cause more illness and death than COVID-19 itself. Side effects of the vaccine include infertility and miscarriage. Despite the well-known dangers of the vaccine and the clear and indisputable failure of the vaccine to protect against the COVID-19 virus, Western governments are pushing ahead with vaccinations.

Why are the authorities imposing vaccination if they know it is harmful to human health? The COVID-19 vaccination campaign could be a plot to reduce the world’s population.

Disproof

Disinformation about coronavirus, promoting anti-vaccine messaging. The article’s message is also consistent with the conspiracy theory claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic and/or Western COVID-19 vaccines are being exploited by global secret elites with a Malthusian agenda to reduce the global population.

It is not true, as the article claims, that COVID-19 vaccines are more dangerous and deadly than the virus. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and are currently the most effective weapon of prevention and containment of the pandemic. Vaccine-related deaths around the world have proved extremely rare, and most side effects from COVID vaccinations are mild. Vaccination data are publicly available and updated on government platforms such as those of the United States, Canada and the European Union.

The manipulation and misuse of COVID-19 vaccines public data have been repeatedly reported as the basis of anti-vax campaigns supporting the theory that COVID-19 vaccines are as dangerous, or more dangerous, than the virus.

Furthermore, the article’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility and miscarriage is not true. According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, COVID-19 vaccines are well-tolerated by people who are pregnant, planning a pregnancy or lactating, further suggesting the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks. Disinformation claiming that COVID-19 vaccines cause female and male infertility has been largely disproved by specific studies and debunked in the international media, as seen here, here or here.

The article’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines increase the spread of the virus is also not true. One of the individual effects of the vaccine is to reduce the chance of infection, by up to 91% in the case of mRNA vaccines.

Read similar cases claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are more dangerous to most people than the virus itself, that Science doubts the effectiveness of vaccines, that AstraZeneca kills, and that the US power élite is using the coronavirus in order to reduce the world’s population.

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  • Reported in: Issue 257
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 31/08/2021
  • Article language(s) English, Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: US, Canada, EU
  • Keywords: Conspiracy theory, vaccination, coronavirus
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Disproof

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