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Issues: disabilities

No Evidence Excess Deaths Linked to Vaccines, Contrary to Claims Online

No Evidence Excess Deaths Linked to Vaccines, Contrary to Claims Online
April 17, 2023

COVID-19 vaccines substantially reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19, and serious side effects are very rare. Excess deaths among working-age adults in 2021 and 2022 were due to COVID-19 and other factors, not vaccination. Faulty logic underlies claims that vaccines caused mass disability and economic harm.

Trumps Didn’t Take Seats for Disabled at U.N.

Trumps Didn’t Take Seats for Disabled at U.N.
September 25, 2019

Social media users and websites jumped to the wrong conclusion by claiming the Trump family took seats reserved for guests with disabilities at the 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly. They sat in seats reserved for guests of the speaker, President Donald Trump.

Clinton on the Stump

Clinton on the Stump
October 3, 2016

Part two of our series checking the accuracy of claims made by the presidential candidates in their daily stump speeches.