Misleading claims suggesting that more than 1,200 people died after suffering adverse reactions to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine have once again been spread on social media, Newsweek has reported. The phrase “Pfizer documents” became a top trending topic on Twitter, thanks in part to a tweet posted by Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who previously had her personal Twitter account permanently suspended for “repeated violations” of the social media site’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, (VAERS) which is operated by the FDA and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tracks reports of adverse issues related to the vaccine. ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNEResponding to the false claims circulating on social media, Irish cancer researcher Dr. David Robert Grimes tweeted: “Why is Pfizer trending? Full Fact ruled the claim as false as the data does not mean that one in 17 people who received the Pfizer vaccines “died shortly afterward” as was being claimed.

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 06, 2022 01:09 UTC