{"id":2375,"date":"2023-01-31T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T01:27:16","slug":"how-a-thanks-pfizer-covid-misinformation-meme-went-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/31\/how-a-thanks-pfizer-covid-misinformation-meme-went-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"How A \u2018Thanks Pfizer\u2019 Covid Misinformation Meme Went Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2023\/01\/25\/how-a-thanks-pfizer-covid-misinformation-meme-went-viral\/?sh=72f47b8b62aa\">Forbes<\/a>) False claims that Covid-19 vaccines cause spasms have gone viral on social media, with many users \u2014 even language education company Duolingo \u2014 making an even more viral joke out of the misinformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anti-vaxxers are spreading videos on social media of people appearing to seize or spasm, falsely claiming these to be Covid-19 vaccine side effects \u2014 but in many cases the videos are years old, unrelated to the Covid-19 vaccine and have been debunked by fact-checkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spasms and seizures are not listed as either&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/expect\/after.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">common side effects<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/safety\/adverse-events.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adverse side effects<\/a>&nbsp;of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the CDC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/safety\/safety-of-vaccines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emphasizes<\/a>&nbsp;the vaccines are safe and effective.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) False claims that Covid-19 vaccines cause spasms have gone viral on social media, with many users \u2014 even language education company Duolingo \u2014 making an even more viral joke out of the misinformation. Anti-vaxxers are spreading videos on social media of people appearing to seize or spasm, falsely claiming these to be Covid-19 vaccine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}