A Twitter account spreading a false link between Covid vaccines and cancer has been suspended.
Social media accounts have shared the false claim that there’s been a 20-fold spike in some kinds of cancer among patients who have been vaccinated for Covid-19.
The false assertion was pushed by a Twitter account going under the name Dr Afzal Niaz on 2 February last year, Reuters reported.
“WARNING TO ALL DOCTORS & DATA SCIENTISTS: I AM OBSERVING a massive spike in cancer,” the account posted. “I am warning that there is now 20 times the normal average of certain types of cancers ever since the ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Injections were first introduced.”
The account was suspended, but yet another account using the same name had previously claimed that New York University Langone hospital and other facilities in the city, in addition to Long Island, weren’t allowing newborns to leave the neonatal intensive care unit with unvaccinated parents.
NYU Langone Health tweeted: “In response to the false & completely unfounded post circulating on social media: NYU Langone DOES NOT prohibit a parent/guardian from taking a child home from the NICU due to their vaccination status—we vehemently discourage the spread of this inaccurate, harmful information.”
That account was also suspended.
Several users posted an article by LifeSite News published on 13 September 2021, stating “Idaho doctor reports a ‘20 times increase’ of cancer in vaccinated patients”.
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