A series of false claims about a meeting held by the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee in September have resurfaced on social media.
An Instagram post shared Feb. 16 shows a screenshot from a Sept. 17, 2021, virtual meeting with text that reads, "FDA said in their virtual meeting yesterday: we were falsely mislead (sic) by (Pfizer) about the safety of the vaccine."
"Heart attacks are 71x higher than other vaccines ... the vaccines are killing two people for every one life saved," reads the text in the post.
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The post generated over 1,400 likes in less than a week. Several posts in this vein that have surfaced on social media stem from a Sept. 17, 2021, tweet that has amassed over 5,000 likes.
But the claim is false on multiple levels, as independent fact-checking organizations have reported.
The claims were made by a citizen in the public comment portion of an FDA meeting, not by an FDA employee, an FDA spokesperson told USA TODAY. And medical experts said there is no evidence linking the COVID-19 vaccine to widespread heart attacks and deaths.
USA TODAY reached out to the social media user who shared the claim for comment.
Steve Kirsch, who was a participant in the September meeting, made the claims cited in the Facebook post...
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