By Jefferey Jaxen
The first-ever mRNA vaccines were rushed to trial and authorized under emergency use authorization (EUA). The public was assured a ‘robust’ safety net would be set in place to detect adverse reactions. Now that the shots from Pfizer, Moderna and J&J have been unleashed upon the public, we are learning the truth about the largest medical experiment in human history.
The New York Times spotlighted the FDA’s struggle to get safety monitoring systems running. According to numerous federal health officials speaking to
NY Times, the much-touted system the government designed to monitor any dangerous reactions won’t be capable of analyzing safety data for weeks. Or maybe months:
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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