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TikTok posts stated on May 08, 2026 in una publicación en TikTok:

Imágenes muestran a personas “infectadas con Hantavirus”.

By Maria Briceño• May 13, 2026

Threads posts stated on February 25, 2025 in a Threads post:

“The Texas measles outbreak is pure propaganda” because media outlets used stock images.

By Jeff Cercone• February 28, 2025

Facebook posts stated on May 21, 2022 in a Facebook post:

They passed the flu off as COVID-19, and “they’re going to do the same thing with monkeypox and shingles.”

By Jeff Cercone• May 26, 2022

Ainsley Earhardt stated on March 13, 2020 in the Fox & Friends show:

“It’s actually the safest time to fly.”

By Daniel Funke• March 13, 2020

Instagram posts stated on April 22, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Hepatitis outbreak in kids may be related to Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

By Jeff Cercone• April 26, 2022

Facebook posts stated on July 25, 2021 in social media:

CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.”

By Victoria Knight• July 30, 2021

Andrew Cuomo stated on May 20, 2020 in a news conference:

“Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes? It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos• June 13, 2020

Facebook posts stated on February 19, 2025 in a Facebook post:

A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, was caused by “a public health initiative” to “distribute free measles vaccines.”

By Loreben Tuquero• February 28, 2025

Instagram posts stated on January 03, 2025 in a post:

China has “a mystery disease outbreak” and has declared a “state of emergency.”

By Sara Swann• January 7, 2025

Matthew Rosendale stated on November 01, 2023 in a fundraising ad:

“It’s been revealed that Fauci brought COVID to the Montana one year before COVID broke out in the U.S.!”

By Katheryn Houghton• February 5, 2024

Instagram posts stated on September 20, 2023 in an Instagram post:

New York City is spraying unsafe pesticides to combat West Nile virus.

By Jeff Cercone• September 29, 2023

Instagram posts stated on September 22, 2021 in an Instagram post:

VAERS reports show that babies whose mothers got the COVID-19 vaccine died after breastfeeding.

By Gabrielle Settles• September 30, 2021

John Cornyn stated on July 09, 2020 in an interview:

Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.”

By Madlin Mekelburg• July 10, 2020

Instagram posts stated on May 21, 2023 in a screenshot shared on Instagram:

COVID-19 vaccines administered during pregnancy drove an increase in cases of myocarditis in babies.

By Madison Czopek• May 23, 2023

Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The CDC issued its first warning on Jan 8. Trump held campaign rallies on Jan 9, Jan 14, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 10, Feb 19, Feb 20, Feb 21, & Feb 28. He golfed on Jan 18, Jan 19, Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 7, Mar 8. The first time he admitted the coronavirus might be a problem was Mar 13.”

By Emily Venezky• April 9, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 18, 2023 in a Facebook post:

"The NEXT pandemic is here and children are the target, says Bill Gates.”

By Jeff Cercone• May 25, 2023

Facebook posts stated on July 06, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Federal officials confirmed that the CDC “sent states tainted lab test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus.”

By Samantha Putterman• July 8, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 03, 2022 in a Facebook post:

An adenovirus is a combination of viruses, gastrointestinal virus, pneumonia and COVID-19 mixed together to “kill our children.”

By Gabrielle Settles• May 12, 2022

X posts stated on December 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“CDC COVID-19 survival rates” are 99.997% for people ages 0 to 19, 99.98% for people ages 20 to 49, 99.5% for people ages 50 to 69, and 94.6% for people over 70.

By Bill McCarthy• December 22, 2020

Donald Trump stated on August 05, 2020 in a Fox and Friends interview:

Children are “almost immune from this disease.”

By Amy Sherman• August 6, 2020

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