COVID/Vaccine
Lists of myths about the vaccine
The vaccine DID go through clinical trials
- Reuters: Fact check - COVID-19 vaccines did have clinical trials
- NIAID: Decades in the Making - mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
- NEJM: Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine (Pfizer clinical trial results from phase 2)
- NEJM: Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Moderna results from phase 2 of clinical trial)
There were no mass animal deaths during trials
The vaccines received full FDA approval
Myocarditis risk is typically low and mild (especially compared to COVID)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Myocarditis and COVID-19 - Get the Facts
- AHA Journals: Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis and Myocardial Injury
- AHA Journals: Clinically Suspected Myocarditis Temporally Related to COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents and Young Adults - Suspected Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination
- The Conversation: Myocarditis - COVID-19 is a much bigger risk to the heart than vaccination
- CDC: Cardiac Complications After SARS-CoV-2 Infection and mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination — PCORnet, United States, January 2021-January 2022
- PubMed: Risk of Myocarditis from COVID-19 Infection in People Under Age 20 - A Population-Based Analysis
- Reuters: Higher risk of heart complications from COVID-19 than vaccines - study
- JAMA: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents
- The Lancet: Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England - a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health records
- Reuters: Fact Check - What we know about myocarditis, COVID-19 infection, and COVID-19 vaccines so far
- NEJM: Myocarditis after Covid-19 Vaccination in a Large Health Care Organization
- Nature Medicine: Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection
Safety and efficacy of vaccines
- Cambridge: Incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination
- U of Minnesota CIDRAP: Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest
- JAMA: COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
- Our World in Data: How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not?
- JAMA: Estimated Protection of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Against Reinfection With the Omicron Variant Among Messenger RNA-Vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Individuals in Quebec, Canada
- PubMed: Systematic review and meta-analysis of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness against hospitalizations in adults
- PubMed: Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes in adults - a systematic review and meta-analysis of European studies published up to 22 January 2024
- PubMed: Vaccine effectiveness across the Omicron evolutionary spectrum (BA.2, BA.5, XBB, JN.1, KP.3) - a systematic review of studies published 2022-2025