copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2023-11-01): Fauci-Run Lab in Montana Experimented with Coronavirus Strain Year Before Pandemic [...] "Fauci-run Montana lab conducted coronavirus experiments on bats with virus shipped from Wuhan in 2018" [...] "Our investigation has uncovered the real-life horror story of how a shady roadside zoo whose curator was an NIH animal experimenter shipped off bats to a deadly government virus lab overseen by Dr. Fauci to be infected with a coronavirus obtained directly from the Wuhan lab that experts believe caused Covid," he said, according to the Post Millennial.
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2022-09-18): Paul has posited that Fauci, among others, "could be culpable for the entire pandemic," if the SARS-CoV-2 virus leaked from a Wuhan lab that was conducting gain-of-function research. But there is no proof of a lab leak, and there is evidence that the bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant could not have caused the pandemic. See, "The Wuhan Lab and the Gain-of-Function Disagreement," May 21, 2021, and "Fauci and Paul, Round 2," July 22, 2021 [...] See, "Old Photo Shows Obama, Fauci at U.S. Facility — Not ‘Wuhan Lab,'"July 17, 2020
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2023-11-01): If Your Time is short - U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., has repeatedly said a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases lab in his state infected bats with a coronavirus shipped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China one year before the COVID-19 outbreak. [...] "It's been revealed that Fauci brought COVID to the Montana one year before COVID broke out in the U.S.!," it charges in all-caps before asking readers to, "Donate today and hold the D.C. bureaucracy accountable!" [...] Rosendale congressional office, "Rep. Rosendale Reacts to Reports That Wuhan Lab Shipped Coronavirus to Fauci-Run Lab in Hamilton Prior to Pandemic," Oct. 31, 2023
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2024-01-16): We’ll recap here what we’ve written about the contention between Paul and Fauci. For more, we refer readers to our two stories on these topics: "The Wuhan Lab and the Gain-of-Function Disagreement" and "The Facts – and Gaps – on the Origin of the Coronavirus." [...] Nearly $600,000 from a National Institutes of Health grant to the U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance went to the Wuhan lab, a collaborator on the six-year project to study the risk of the future emergence of coronaviruses from bats. The grant was canceled in April 2020. [...] In the July 20 hearing, Paul, again, tied the U.S. funding of the Wuhan lab to the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and after the hearing, the hashtag #FauciLiedPeopleDied began trending on Twitter. But as Fauci correctly said, there’s no evidence the lab had a coronavirus that could possibly be manipulated enough to lead to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to several experts. Paul then said he wasn’t implying that.
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2021-03-29): LINFA WANG: So, three possibilities. The virus brought to Wuhan by a human, by animal or by frozen food. And I would rank the frozen food as No. 3 - not impossible but low probability.
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2021-05-18): "Juicing up super viruses is not new. Scientists in the U.S. have long known how to mutate animal viruses to infect humans. For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH. … Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?" [...] In Wuhan, China, where the first cases of the coronavirus emerged in late 2019, at least two labs studied coronaviruses that originate in bats — the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (WHCDC). Both are close to the seafood market that was originally deemed the source of the outbreak. The WIV is about eight miles away. The WHCDC is right around the corner.
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2023-11-07): "Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading" […] "Lock Fauci up, lock everybody up in Montana that is responsible […] let’s just try to save as many lives as possible". [...] According to Watters, the animal rights group White Coat Waste Project, which shared misinformation about Fauci in the past, had uncovered documents describing coronavirus research done in Montana using Egyptian fruit bats. [...] "In 2018, Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America" ; "Grabbed a dozen Egyptian fruit bats, threw them in the back of a van"
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2023-12-06): An article in the Daily Mail quotes the president and founder of WCW, Anthony Bellotti, as saying: "Our investigation has uncovered the real-life horror story of how a shady roadside zoo whose curator was an NIH animal experimenter shipped off bats to a deadly government virus lab overseen by Dr. Fauci to be infected with a coronavirus obtained directly from the Wuhan lab that experts believe caused COVID." [...] According to fact checkers at healthfeedback.org, Fox News’s Jesse Watters, who took over the primetime slot formerly occupied by Tucker Carlson, also began making claims about the work done on pathogens by NIAID at Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML) based on inaccurate or unsubstantiated assumptions in his November 1, 2023 primetime show. Watters posted an excerpt on his Facebook page in which he claimed "Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading" and calls for "Fauci and everybody up in Montana" to be locked up and refers to the WCW Project’s "expose" which cited as supporting evidence a study from 2018 by Van Doremalen et al. [...] Watters also stated, "In 2018, Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America" and "grabbed a dozen Egyptian fruit bats, threw them in the back of a van."
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2020-11-24): Dr. Peter Breggin’s paper written with his wife: Dr. Fauci’s COVID-19 Treachery – pdf download link: https://breggin.com/coronavirus/Final-Fauci-Treachery-Report-10.19.2020.pdf – Massively researched investigation into the corrupt networks weaponizing public health and attacking world society [...] In other words, they will demand total control over the population and the erasure of constitutional liberties in the name of "the greater good"… These are the same people that downplayed the pandemic at the beginning of the year and refused to stop travel from China until it was too late. They are also the same people (including Dr. Anthony Fauci) who gave the Chinese millions of dollars to play around with the coronavirus at the Level 4 lab in Wuhan, which is the likely source of the current outbreak. I’m not sure why ANYONE would want to give more power to the people that caused the crisis in the first place… Three factors are working hand-in-hand to undermine U.S. stability and create a rationale for totalitarian controls including the economic crash, civil unrest and the pandemic itself. Understand that preparations to protect yourself and your family must be finalized NOW. There will not be even a minor recovery after the next shutdown."
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2017-04-04): Should America & our World demand reparations from China for CREATING & SPREADING COVID & ECONOMIC DISASTER? The evidence is mounting that COVID was created in the Wuhan infectious disease State Facility by weaponizing bat or other normal viruses to become 10- 20 X more infectious & targeted at humans… Mentalhealthrightsforum.com RANG the ALARM BELL LOUDLY MONTHS BEFORE the W.H.O. publicly declared an Apocalyptic Level Pandemic Disaster! On Dec. 1, China was enveloped in uncontrolled influenza, 20 times greater than in 2019. China ALWAYS SUPPRESSES THE TRUTH if they find it embarrassing, inconvenient! Wuhan virology lab staff showed SARS like symptoms! Dr. William Shaffner: "CHINESE OFFICIALS SEEMED TO MINIMIZE THE (COVID) EPIDEMIC AT ANY MOMENT IN TIME!" Both Russia & China APPROVE & DISTRIBUTE COVID VACCINES BEFORE CONDUCTING LARGE SCALE SAFETY STUDIES… They offer Sinovac Biotech, Gamaleya, CanSino Biologics, Sinopharm… Russia’s Sputnik V is a claimed 95% EFFECTIVE- will be approved widely at 95%! Vaccines may prevent infection in most people or at least lessen otherwise possible serious illness! For contrast, in Great Britain dispensing Pfizer BioNTech vaccine yesterday, 2 Health Care staff suffered a bad allergic ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’? reaction- IMMEDIATELY Britain CAUTIONING EVERYBODY pending further study!
Claim: “Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America” (Jesse Watters, 2023-07-11)
Evidence (2017-04-15): - FOX NEWS- repeating Pres. Biden’s cognitive screw ups day after day like ‘GROUND HOG DAY!’ but never getting it RIGHT until both FOX NEWS Personalities & Viewers alike are BATTY as BATS in the BELFRY!!!!!!! Actual REAL LIFE BATS are Enjoyable to observe in erratic flight, BLESSED WITH IMMUNE SYSTEMS more ABLE to BEAT BACK VIRUSES like COVID! By our reckless bull in a china tea shop self centered behavior- imagining we are MASTERS over MOTHER NATURE, modern society ENABLES ZOONOTICS- VIRUSES jumping from other LIFE FORMS to We HUMAN LIFE FORMS!!! The current outbreak theory is that the biological research lab. in Wuhan created a deadly virulent gain of function. BATTY COVID specifically designed to infect & terribly sicken we humans! Conspiracy theorists claim Pres. Obama banned GAIN of FUNCTION research in America circa 2014 so Fauci’s Associates funded research in China’s viral Lab! Other conspiracy theorists argue COVID was released circa China’s World Military Games in Oct- Nov. 2019? China acted by a HARD INTERNAL LOCK DOWN while enabling international travel & covering up the Plague’s virulence damning our World!!!!
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2023-12-01): Unlike many other countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand experienced fewer deaths compared to the pre-pandemic baseline in 2020 and 2021, as a result of COVID-19 restrictions. Since the restrictions were lifted, mortality rates in the elderly have risen. This is likely due to a return of respiratory viruses like the flu, and likely represents a return to baseline mortality, not an increase in excess mortality due to COVID-19 vaccines. Published studies so far have found no association between COVID-19 vaccines and an increased mortality risk.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2021-10-04): The report claims that "millions have died from COVID injections" around the world, and includes narratives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and Brazil to back up this claim. [...] More than 390 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the U.S., with 55.6% of Americans fully vaccinated. CDC spokesperson Martha Sharan said the FDA requires health care providers to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it’s unclear if the vaccine was the cause. The CDC states that VAERS has received 8,164 reports of deaths following a vaccine, or 0.0021%. That’s far lower than the claims from the vaccine death report. However, that’s still unsubstantiated given that VAERS reports do not conclude if a vaccine caused an adverse event. More evidence is needed. [...] A report written by anti-vaccine advocates on a website called Stop World Control made claims that the COVID-19 vaccine has killed millions of people.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2020-03-05): The Our World in Data COVID vaccination data [...] COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) [...] Finally, our dataset on COVID-19 vaccinations is sourced from official data published by governments and ministries of health from countries around the world. This is also the case for Israel and Palestine. We show figures for Palestine and Israel separately, as they are reported separately by the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2021-05-20): The latest data on Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19 (modelled estimates) are published here. On 30 January 2020 COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) with an official death toll of 171. By 31 December 2020, this figure stood at 1 813 188. Yet preliminary estimates suggest the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is at least 3 million, representing 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported. With the latest COVID-19 deaths reported to WHO now exceeding 3.4 million, based on the excess mortality estimates produced for 2020, we are likely facing a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2023-03-27): There have been rare cases of serious adverse events reported with the COVID-19 vaccines. Previous studies have shown an increase in the risk of myocarditis and myopericarditis associated with mRNA vaccines including BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna)8,11, and an increased risk of thrombotic and other rare cardiovascular events after the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (Oxford-AstraZeneca)12,13. There is also evidence of a range of other rare neurological complications14. However, the absolute risk of severe complications is low and needs to be assessed against the increased risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection if unvaccinated15,16. The balance of risk and benefit is particularly important to determine in younger people, due to the lower risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and death in this age group17. [...] Relative incidence of death after COVID-19 vaccination
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2024-06-06): A recent study has sparked another round of headlines claiming that COVID vaccines caused excess deaths. This was accompanied by a predictable outpouring of I-told-you-sos on social media. [...] They studied the years 2020 to 2022 and found that many, but not all, countries did indeed report excess deaths. The authors did not try to explain why these excess deaths occurred, but the suggestion that COVID vaccines could have played a role is clear from their text – and indeed widely interpreted as such by certain newspapers. There is no doubt that a few deaths were associated with the COVID vaccines, but could the vaccination programme explain the large number of excess deaths – 3 million in 47 countries – that have been reported?
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2022-05-13): These figures come from an analysis released Friday by researchers at Brown University and Microsoft AI Health — shared exclusively with NPR — that estimates the portion of vaccine-preventable deaths in each state since COVID-19 vaccines became available at the start of 2021. [...] The total for the country is stark: Many of the nearly 1 million COVID deaths took place in 2020 before the vaccines were available. But of the more than 641,000 people who died after vaccines were available, half of those deaths could have been averted – 318,981 – had every eligible adult gotten vaccinated. And those numbers are even more striking in certain states where more than half of deaths could have been avoided. [...] The national number of vaccine-preventable COVID deaths calculated by Brown and Microsoft exceeds an earlier analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which put that number at 234,000. Cynthia Cox, director of the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker and a co-author of that analysis, tells NPR that differences in methodology may explain the discrepancy.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2022-06-24): Vaccinations estimated to have averted 19.8 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide in their first year, according to the latest Imperial modelling study. [...] Despite the incredible speed of the vaccine roll-out worldwide, more than 3.5 million COVID-19 deaths have been reported since the first vaccine was administered in December 2020. [...] Dr Oliver Watson said: "Our findings offer the most complete assessment to date of the remarkable global impact that vaccination has had on the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the almost 20 million deaths estimated to have been prevented in the first year after vaccines were introduced, almost 7.5 million deaths were prevented in countries covered by the COVID-19 Vaccine Access initiative (COVAX). This initiative was set up because it was clear early on that global vaccine equity would be the only way out of the pandemic. Our findings show that millions of lives have likely been saved by making vaccines available to people everywhere, regardless of their wealth. However, more could have been done. If the targets set out by the WHO had been achieved, we estimate that roughly 1 in 5 of the estimated lives lost due to COVID-19 in low-income countries could have been prevented."
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2021-10-04): How many people have died as a result of a COVID-19 vaccine? There has been widespread speculation about the side-effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, including, tragically, deaths. But how many people have died as a result of a vaccine and why do different sources of data tell a different story? Sarah Caul takes a look at what the data are showing us. [...] The COVID-19 vaccination programme led to a very large number of people receiving vaccinations in a relatively short period. Some people will, sadly, die by chance shortly after receiving a vaccine, so the death can be mistakenly attributed to the COVID-19 vaccination by a family member or carer. In the course of such a large-scale programme, this could add up to a large number.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2024-01-09): We rate the claim that there have been 17 million deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines False. [...] AFP, Report falsely claims Covid vaccines killed 17 million worldwide, Oct. 23, 2023 [...] Health Feedback, Analysis claiming to find COVID-19 vaccines killed 17 million people is highly flawed, doesn’t account for COVID-19 mortality surges, Oct. 11, 2023
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2023-12-16): Data from around the world support the general safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some people online, however, incorrectly claim that illegally obtained data from New Zealand show the vaccines have killed 13 million people worldwide. Experts say the analysis is bogus. [...] Most recently, Steve Kirsch, a tech entrepreneur who has become a major source of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, has claimed that leaked data from the New Zealand government "prove" that the vaccines have killed on average 1 person for every 1,000 doses — or when extrapolated to the entire world, about 13 million people. [...] "Steve Kirsch’s claim that New Zealand data shows COVID-19 vaccines killed millions is based on a flawed analysis." Health Feedback. 8 Dec 2023.
Claim: “the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population” (Steve Kirsch, 2023-12-01)
Evidence (2024-02-04): The World Health Organization estimated that in 2021 alone the COVID-19 vaccines saved more than 14.4 million lives globally. [...] The COVID-19 vaccines have been rigorously tested and monitored for years and public health authorities worldwide continue to find them safe and effective. Billions of doses have been administered worldwide. The vaccines have saved millions of lives, and adverse effects are rare. [...] PolitiFact, "Activist misuses federal data to make Pants on Fire claim that COVID-19 vaccines killed 676,000," Aug. 14, 2023