The claim: Hank Aaron died weeks after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine
Hall of Famer Henry Hank Aaron died at his home in Atlanta on Jan. 22. The legacy of the former Braves baseball player, whose start with the Negro Leagues led to him eclipsing Babe Ruth s home run record, is celebrated online and on social media but also entangled with discussion of the COVID-19 vaccine.
An article published Jan. 22 by The Defender, an outlet of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s Children s Health Defense, intimates a connection between Aaron s death and the vaccine he received Jan. 5, alongside other civil and human rights leaders at the Morehouse Healthcare Clinic, part of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Fact check: Not likely that COVID-19 vaccine was cause of Hank Aaron s death Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY
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The claim: Hank Aaron died weeks after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine
Hall of Famer Henry Hank Aaron died at his home in Atlanta on Jan. 22. The legacy of the former Braves baseball player, whose start with the Negro Leagues led to him eclipsing Babe Ruth s home run record, is celebrated online and on social media but also entangled with discussion of the COVID-19 vaccine.
An article published Jan. 22 by The Defender, an outlet of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s Children s Health Defense, intimates a connection between Aaron s death and the vaccine he received Jan. 5, alongside other civil and human rights leaders at the Morehouse Healthcare Clinic, part of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
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My Black mayor colleagues and I at the African American Mayors Association are keenly aware of the need to revamp our policing system. That’s why we created a
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Former Vice-President Joe Biden made history this week when he announced that California Senator Kamala Harris will be his running mate, making her the first African-American woman and also the first Indian-American on a major party presidential ticket.
Kamala (pronounced ‘comma la’) Harris, who also ran in the primary election for the Democratic nomination, is the junior US Senator from California and was previously elected as the California Attorney General.
Biden picked Harris from a short list of women that had made the short list of potential running mates after Biden had committed in the primaries that he would choose a woman to join him on the presidential ticket. During the recent and ongoing protests and action on race and criminal justice reform, Biden was also under increasing pressure to chose a woman of color to join him on the campaign.