A widely viewed Facebook post shows a TikTok video in which a man comments on a series of clips of people fainting or collapsing.
"Why are people 'dropping' suddenly?" reads the video's caption in the Jan. 28 post (direct link, archive link).
The man in the video, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in less than a week, says:
"Now, what is the reason many people are just dropping suddenly? What do you guys think (it) could possibly be? Different heart conditions is going on – suddenly. Different young people dropping in sports – suddenly. And what's even more interesting is they don't really blow that up on the media. What could possibly be the reason?"
Commenters connected the fainting incidents with the COVID-19 vaccine.
"Oddly this started happening in the past 2 years," said one commenter.
"Coincidentally when everyone got the jab," replied another.
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The implied claim here is wrong. Four of the six clips in the montage were circulating online before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other two involved people who had not yet been vaccinated.
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