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How a well-meaning U.S. government database fuels dangerous vaccine misinformation
By Melissa Goldin, John Gregory, and Kendrick McDonald
On 5/25/21 at 12:01 AM EDT
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On April 30, 2021, the website Natural News which NewsGuard has rated Red, meaning generally unreliable published a story reporting the death of a 2-year-old who in late February had received the second dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during the companies clinical trials for children. The only problem? Children under 5 did not begin receiving shots until April, according to a press releaseon the Pfizer website.
Natural News picked up the false claim from a familiar source of pandemic misinformation: Red-rated website Great Game India, which in January 2020 also spread a different falsehood that the COVID-19 virus was stolen from a Canadian lab.
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Children as young as 12 can expect to start getting Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Thursday in many states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday adopted the recommendation of a federal advisory committee that said the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for adolescents ages 12-15, opening the door for its widespread use starting Thursday. The CDC panel met to discuss the merits of the vaccine in that age group after the Food and Drug Administration signed off Monday on the shots. That prompted a handful of cities to start administering them Tuesday, but the CDC s clearance makes them more widely available.