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Covid-19 vaccine skeptics are exploiting official data to undermine confidence in the shots, misrepresenting statistics from a US government-run database as evidence that the doses are routinely killing Americans.
In an especially egregious case, a report submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) said that a two-year-old girl died in the state of Virginia less than a week after receiving a Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
The report spread on social media, and an article claimed the death came during "vaccine experiments on children."
But the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told AFP the report was "completely made up," with a professional athlete listed as the patient and a world leader's name used for the person who reported the incident.
The names did not appear in the public version of the report, and by the time it was removed from VAERS, the damage was already done.
In an especially egregious case, a report submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) said that a two-year-old girl died in the state of Virginia less than a week after receiving a Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
The report spread on social media, and an article claimed the death came during "vaccine experiments on children."
But the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told AFP the report was "completely made up," with a professional athlete listed as the patient and a world leader's name used for the person who reported the incident.
The names did not appear in the public version of the report, and by the time it was removed from VAERS, the damage was already done.