A May 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a tweet that claims a government agency reported a massive increase in certain illnesses after the COVID-19 vaccines were introduced.
"BREAKING: AIDS-associated diseases and cancers have increased by 338x since the rollout of the (COVID-19 vaccine), according to the CDC and foreign government bodies," reads the tweet.
The post was liked more than 1,000 times in two days. The original tweet has been retweeted more than 3,000 times.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention never reported such an increase and said it hasn't found a link between the COVID-19 vaccines and HIV or cancer. An expert told USA TODAY there is no evidence to support the claim. The website that originally made the claim used numbers from an unverified database that allows anyone to submit reports of adverse vaccine side effects.
The claim appears to have originated on a website called "The Expose," which has previously published vaccine-related misinformation. The headline of an article from May 11 reads, "COVID Vaccine roll-out caused 338x increase in AIDS-associated Diseases & Cancers in 2021 says CDC."
The CDC, though, says that claim isn't accurate.
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