Social media users shared an article undermining the COVID-19 vaccine by saying 24 people died in a nursing home in Auburn, New York, after it was administered. The article does not mention that the COVID-19 outbreak of the nursing home preceded the vaccinations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the COVID-19 vaccine does not infect patients with the disease, but those who contracted COVID-19 before being vaccinated may become ill after a vaccination because it causes some weeks the body takes to build up immunity.
The article by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, entitled A Nursing Home, had no deaths from the Coronavirus. Then it can start finding coronavirus residents and the deaths (here) on various sites, some of which change the title to 24 dead and 137 infected at nursing home in NY after experimental COVID injections (here, here, here, here).
Hundreds of social media users shared the articles (here, here, here, here) and users commented on the posts saying, “Don’t get the Covid vaccine!”; “DO NOT SAY NO!”; or “Make you wonder when everyone who received these injections is going to get sick!”
Syracuse.com reported that the nursing home began taking vaccinations on December 22 and until December 29, there were still no COVID-19 deaths, but less than two weeks after December 29, 24 residents died from COVID-19. This article can be seen here. The article states that a spokesman for the nursing home businesses said that the COVID-19 outbreak in The Commons started on December 21 before the vaccinations began.
A spokesman for Loretto, the company that runs The Commons (here), told Reuters in an email that the nursing home had confirmed coronavirus cases before the vaccines were administered: “Loretto can confirm that the outbreak had 24 positive cases at The Commons Had December. 21, before Loretto began administering the vaccine on December 22nd. We definitely wish the vaccines were available earlier to prevent the devastation caused by this virus. “They also confirmed to Reuters that the first COVID-19 deaths were reported to the Commons on December 29 and by January 9, 24 COVID-19 deaths had been recorded.
The COVID-19 vaccine cannot make people sick with COVID-19, says CDC on its website: “None of the authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines or COVID-19 vaccines currently being developed in the United States , contains the live virus that causes COVID -19. This means that a COVID-19 vaccine cannot make you sick with COVID-19. ‘(here)
The CDC also says that it is possible for a person to become infected just before or just after vaccination and still get sick, because it usually takes a few weeks before the body builds up immunity after vaccination and the vaccine is not ‘enough’. time to provide protection. ”
Reuters has investigated other false claims about the COVID-19 vaccine that causes deaths (here, here, here).
VERDICT
Missing context. Residents of The Commons on St Anthony in Auburn, New York, died of COVID-19 after the vaccine was administered, but the COVID-19 outbreak at the nursing home began before vaccination began.
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