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Sunday, June 21, 2026

False claim about deadly Covid-19 vaccine batches spreads online - AFP Factcheck

Online articles and social media posts claim US government data reveals there are problematic batches of Covid-19 shots that are responsible for all deaths caused by the vaccines. But American health authorities have not identified issues with specific vaccine lots, independent health experts say the claim is meritless, and the data cited is not proof that a shot was responsible for a fatality.

"100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths were caused by just 5% of the batches produced according to official Government data," says the headline of an October 31, 2021 article on The Expose website.

"An investigation of data found in the USA's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has revealed that extremely high numbers of adverse reactions and deaths have been reported against specific lot numbers of the Covid-19 vaccines several times, meaning deadly batches of the experimental injections have now been identified," the article says.

Similar claims -- part of a flood of inaccurate information about Covid-19 circulating online -- appeared in articles citing The Expose here and here, and in January 2022 Facebook posts here and here.

VAERS is a database run by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to detect vaccine safety issues.

CDC spokeswoman Martha Sharan told AFP that the two agencies "have not identified a safety signal associated with a particular Covid-19 vaccine lot or group of lots."

"VAERS is designed to...



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