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That sentence is an outright lie.

Tim Zook died after taking it. Sonia Acevedo died after taking it. Sara Beltran Ponce had a miscarriage after taking it. [1,2]

[1] https://twitter.com/SaraBelPonMD/status/1354890858789744641

[2] https://archive.is/cGNNK



In the context of the article, the implication of that sentence was "there has not been a single death or hospitalization [from covid]". I thought that would also be clear from the context of this thread, but maybe not.

Out of curiosity I googled those names.

Tim Zook: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/vaccine-ruled-out-as-cause-of-de... (the slug tells it all)

Sonia Acevedo: https://in.news.yahoo.com/sonia-acevedo-portuguese-health-wo... (basically, nothing conclusive yet)

We're talking about tens of millions (soon billions) of doses. I'm sure there will be some bad reactions, but there's definitely going to be a lot of simple coincidences too. I'm sure I don't need to repost the XKCD on correlation/causation here.


Tim and Sonia are not part of the trials being talked about


>Since the beginning of the trials, all trials, there has not been a single death or hospitalization among people vaccinated.

The statement clearly says, since the date when trials began, there have been no deaths among all people who received the shot. This is obviously an untrue statement and misinformation.


I'll just say that is a very strange reading of the sentence. There's really no where to go with this exchange if we can't even agree on that.


None of which are qualifies given in the GP




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