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• The Pfizer report analyzes adverse events, which include any health issue that arises following vaccination regardless of whether it was caused by the vaccine.


• The appendix of adverse events in the report are pre-specified conditions that the FDA asks researchers and drug companies to monitor for, not a log of cases that have actually been observed post-vaccination.


• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for both children and adults.

Misinterpretations of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events have been a common source of misinformation throughout the pandemic. Now, some social media users are homing in on a list of adverse events mentioned in a Pfizer vaccine safety report to create another false narrative.

"It's quite revolting to think that the inserts for these vaccines were blank when they should have contained all these diseases and adverse events," said one video posted on BitChute, a video-hosting platform. "You really have to go through this yourselves, but this is really the bombshell news of the day, of the week, of the year."

A since-removed Instagram post similarly scrolled through the 9-page list of adverse events at the end of Pfizer’s document. The post was captioned: "They knew all along. The CDC ACIP had these documents and STILL voted to give to children. These people are pure evil."

The social media posts also gave the impression that the adverse events were...

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