An April 7 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) poses a question about the virus that causes COVID-19. "Anyone else find it odd that we stopped having new variants all of a sudden?" reads the ...

Covid-era conspiracy theories have continued to circulate in Indonesia, with a recent one falsely claiming messenger RNA ...

This process of immune system activation is a normal mechanism of vaccination and cannot be equated with the formation or growth of cancer cells. Cancer is a complex disease resulting from an ...

Fiji's declaration of a national HIV crisis has set off a torrent of online falsehoods, blaming the Pacific nation's robust Covid-19 vaccination coverage for the surging HIV cases. The baseless posts ...

A social media claim alleges that the two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were not intended to protect people against the virus ...

The World Health Organization said Nov. 29 that global spread of a new coronavirus variant, named omicron, could result in "severe consequences," as early research indicates it's possible that the ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the COVID-19 vaccines caused the largest carcinogenic exposure in history. In the summer of 2026, a rumor spread that the U.S. Centers for ...

Despite persistent claims to the contrary, none of the three authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines contains fetal tissue. In an early phase of development, two of the coronavirus shots — the mRNA ...