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Mar 17, 2022 · March 17, 20226:59 AM PDTUpdated 2 years ago. Nine pages of adverse event reports from Pfizer-BioNTech in relation to its COVID-19 vaccine are not confirmed adverse events to the shot. They...
Mar 11, 2022 · Based on this document, multiple posts and memes (see examples here, here, and here) claimed that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine caused a lengthy list of serious side effects, ranging from epilepsy to liver injury to autoimmune diseases. Such posts received more than 47,000 interactions on Facebook and Instagram, according to the social ...
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A Pfizer document recently released by the Food and Drug Administration describes adverse events reported following vaccination and attests to the continued safety of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. A popular video and other online posts, however, incorrectly imply that the vaccine caused the events. Many posts also wrongly assume that a long list ...
After more than 1 billion doses administered worldwide— including more than325 million in the U.S. — and more than a year of safety monitoring, the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccineis considered to be very safe. Many people experience temporary symptoms, such as fever, headache or pain at the site of injection. But those aren’t dangerous and are sig...
All of these posts misunderstand what is being reported in the Pfizer document. The document is an analysis of adverse events, or health issues reported following vaccination, regardless of whether they were caused by the vaccine. Tracking of such events is useful for companies and regulators to identify possible safety signals, particularly of rar...
Feb 27, 2024 · The Vaccine study confirmed that the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are linked in rare cases to myocarditis and pericarditis, conditions involving inflammation of the heart muscle and...
Mar 23, 2022 · 23 March 2022. What was claimed. A newly published document lists side effects from Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Our verdict. This is not true. The document lists adverse events reported after vaccination, which may not have been caused by the vaccine. It also says these adverse events raise no safety concerns.
Mar 1, 2022 · Facebook Fact-checks. Coronavirus. Bloggers. By Vivian Lam March 23, 2022. Fact-checking false claims that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine labels hid safety information. If Your Time is short. The...
Side effects that have been reported with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines include: • Severe allergic reactions • Non-severe allergic reactions such as rash, itching,...
