Lead Stories
US icon US UK icon UK EU icon Europe & EU Democrats icon Blue Feed Republicans icon Red Feed Deepfakes icon Deep fakes Breaking icon Breaking News

Pfizer

  • Fact Check: 'Adverse Vaccine Reactions' Did NOT Become Leading Cause Of US Deaths In 2021 Or 2022

    Fact Check

    Did "adverse vaccine reaction" become the leading cause of U.S. deaths in 2021 and 2022? No, that's not true: Adverse vaccine reactions are not a categorical cause of death tracked by health officials. Also, the vaccination status and records of deceased individuals are not tracked. In both 2021 and 2022, experts told Lead Stories that the leading cause of death…

    • Jan 10, 2023
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: 'Adverse Vaccine Reactions' Did NOT Become Leading Cause Of US Deaths In 2021 Or 2022 No Such Metric
  • Fact Check: COVID Vaccine Data Do NOT Show Increased Risk Of Serious Adverse Events Of Special Interest In Randomized Trials

    Fact Check

    Does a reanalysis of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine data show an increased risk of serious adverse events of special interest? No, that's not true: The authors of this study created their own subset of serious adverse events of special interest (AESI), which give the appearance of there being a strong correlation between them and the vaccines when, in…

    • Jan 3, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: COVID Vaccine Data Do NOT Show Increased Risk Of Serious Adverse Events Of Special Interest In Randomized Trials Risk Inflated
  • Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain 'HIV Protein' Causing 'Vaccine AIDS'

    Fact Check

    Do COVID-19 vaccines contain an "HIV protein" that is causing "vaccine AIDS," resulting in an increase in people "showing up HIV-positive"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence to suggest COVID mRNA vaccines currently available in the U.S. contain an HIV protein. Neither of the ingredient lists for the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty or the Moderna Spikevax COVID vaccines contain an…

    • Dec 30, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain 'HIV Protein' Causing 'Vaccine AIDS' Not Listed
  • Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 'Causes Blood Clots'

    Fact Check

    Did the Food and Drug Administration report that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine "causes" blood clots? No, that's not true: In remarks to Lead Stories, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that the vaccine meets its safety standards and denied that the agency had found that the vaccine causes health problems. The authors of a recent study, conducted in part…

    • Dec 20, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 'Causes Blood Clots' No Causal Link
  • Fact Check: CDC Did NOT 'Quietly' Confirm 118,000 Children, Young Adults 'Died Suddenly' From COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

    Fact Check

    Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "quietly" confirm in late 2022 that at least 118,000 children and young adults have "died suddenly" in the U.S. since rollout of COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: Experts told Lead Stories that excess death data has been publicly published by the CDC since COVID was declared a pandemic in March…

    • Dec 15, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: CDC Did NOT 'Quietly' Confirm 118,000 Children, Young Adults 'Died Suddenly' From COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Unrelated Data
  • Fact Check: Celine Dion's Stiff Person Syndrome NOT Listed As Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Reaction As Of December 14, 2022

    Fact Check

    Is stiff person syndrome, the disease Celine Dion announced in December 2022 that she was diagnosed with, included in a list of adverse reactions reported after vaccination with the Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech) mRNA COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: Stiff person syndrome was included in the appendix of an April 2021 Pfizer report as part of a "list of adverse events…

    • Dec 14, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Celine Dion's Stiff Person Syndrome NOT Listed As Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Reaction As Of December 14, 2022 Not A Reaction
  • Fact Check: Pharmacists, Doctors Do NOT Rely Solely On Blank Page In COVID-19 Vaccine Package In Deciding Whether To Inoculate

    Fact Check

    Is a blank-page insert in some mRNA COVID-19 vaccine packaging the only resource for providing doctors and pharmacists with the vaccine information they need to ensure a patient's informed consent to vaccination? No, that's not true: COVID-19 mRNA vaccine information is publicly available at the manufacturers' websites (here and here), as well as published online by the U.S. Food and…

    • Dec 12, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
     Fact Check: Pharmacists, Doctors Do NOT Rely Solely On Blank Page In COVID-19 Vaccine Package In Deciding Whether To Inoculate Info Available
  • Fact Check: Pfizer CEO Bourla Did Not "Maintain" That mRNA Technology Was Unsafe

    Fact Check

    Did Albert Bourla, the chairman and CEO of the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, "maintain" that mRNA vaccine technology was unsafe when he gave researchers the go-ahead to use it in Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: In the full 2022 Washington Post interview from which this claim is derived, Bourla did not say that mRNA was unsafe. He said that…

    • Dec 6, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Pfizer CEO Bourla Did Not "Maintain" That mRNA Technology Was Unsafe Novel ≠ Unsafe
  • Fact Check: Death Of Envoy Pilot Has NOT Been Linked To COVID-19 Vaccine Or Booster

    Fact Check

    Did a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) insider, a whistleblower, provide exclusive information to Real Raw News about a conversation on a cockpit voice recorder just before the pilot of Envoy Air flight 3556 became unresponsive? Does this recording point to a COVID-19 booster shot as the likely cause of the pilot's death and is this evidence of a government coverup…

    • Dec 6, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Death Of Envoy Pilot Has NOT Been Linked To COVID-19 Vaccine Or Booster Unproven Claim
  • Fact Check: Data Does NOT Prove COVID Vaccination Causes 'Significant Numbers Of Deaths' In British Children -- But Raw Numbers Do Show Vaccinated Children Up To 137 Times More Likely To Die

    Fact Check

    Does British government data prove COVID-19 vaccination is causing "significant numbers of deaths" in British children? In addition, does the same dataset also show children are up to 137 times more likely to die following COVID vaccination than their unvaccinated counterparts? No, that's not true: There's no evidence that the numbers draw a causal relationship between COVID vaccination and the…

    • Dec 6, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Data Does NOT Prove COVID Vaccination Causes 'Significant Numbers Of Deaths' In British Children -- But Raw Numbers Do Show Vaccinated Children Up To 137 Times More Likely To Die Sickest Vaxed
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

About Us

EFCSN International Fact-Checking Organization

Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet.
Spotted something? Let us know!.

Lead Stories is a:

  • Verified signatory of the IFCN Code of Principles
  • Verified EFCSN member

Follow us on social media

Subscribe to our newsletter

* indicates required

Please select all the ways you would like to hear from Lead Stories LLC:

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website.

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.

Google Preferred Source

Get more fact-checks in your Google Search results by setting up leadstories.com as one of your preferred sources.

Most Read

  • Fact Check: 'Metal Sky Man' Was NOT Spotted In The Clouds Above Utah On August 11, 2025 -- Ripped From Footage Posted In July Recycled Clip

    Fact Check: 'Metal Sky Man' Was NOT Spotted In The Clouds Above Utah On August 11, 2025 -- Ripped From Footage Posted In July

    Fact Check

    • Aug 15, 2025
    • by: Sarah Thompson
  • Fact Check: Made-Up Story About Eleanor Whitmore 'Given to the Strongest Slave' Josiah Freeman in 1856 Virginia Is Clickbait Made-Up Tale

    Fact Check: Made-Up Story About Eleanor Whitmore 'Given to the Strongest Slave' Josiah Freeman in 1856 Virginia Is Clickbait

    Fact Check

    • Apr 22, 2026
    • by: Sarah Thompson
  • Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Michael Jackson Sitting On A Bus In Brazil -- It's AI Died In 2009

    Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Michael Jackson Sitting On A Bus In Brazil -- It's AI

    Fact Check

    • May 13, 2026
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
  • Fact Check: 'New York Clean Car Act' Was NOT Signed Into Law Banning Car Washing In New York State Fake Details

    Fact Check: 'New York Clean Car Act' Was NOT Signed Into Law Banning Car Washing In New York State

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Ed Payne
  • Fact Check: 1967 Medallion Is NOT An Israeli Shekel And Did NOT Predict 9/11 Attack On USA 6 Day War Coin

    Fact Check: 1967 Medallion Is NOT An Israeli Shekel And Did NOT Predict 9/11 Attack On USA

    Fact Check

    • May 28, 2021
    • by: Alan Duke
  • Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Post A Fake Photo Of Himself Walking With An Alien -- Shared On Truth Social Prez Posted

    Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Post A Fake Photo Of Himself Walking With An Alien -- Shared On Truth Social

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
  • Fact Check: U.S. Supreme Court Did NOT Issue 7-2 Ruling Abolishing Income Tax Under Case Number 24-1791 -- Case Does NOT Exist Rulings Public

    Fact Check: U.S. Supreme Court Did NOT Issue 7-2 Ruling Abolishing Income Tax Under Case Number 24-1791 -- Case Does NOT Exist

    Fact Check

    • May 13, 2026
    • by: Ed Payne

Most Recent

  • Fact Check: Posts Saying Your Favorite Celeb Went Live At 3 A.M. With An Urgent Message About Being Silenced Are NOT Real -- Spam From Vietnam Viet Spam

    Fact Check: Posts Saying Your Favorite Celeb Went Live At 3 A.M. With An Urgent Message About Being Silenced Are NOT Real -- Spam From Vietnam

    Fact Check

    • May 19, 2026
    • by: Alan Duke
  • Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Robert DeNiro Flipping The Bird In Front Of Trump Tower In Obama T-Shirt -- It is AI Rep Says Fake

    Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Robert DeNiro Flipping The Bird In Front Of Trump Tower In Obama T-Shirt -- It is AI

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
  • Fact Check: 'New York Clean Car Act' Was NOT Signed Into Law Banning Car Washing In New York State Fake Details

    Fact Check: 'New York Clean Car Act' Was NOT Signed Into Law Banning Car Washing In New York State

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Ed Payne
  • Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Write That 'Nobody Knows God Better Than Me' And That 'Nobody Is Loved More By God Than Me' Not His Post

    Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Write That 'Nobody Knows God Better Than Me' And That 'Nobody Is Loved More By God Than Me'

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
  • Fact Check: FAKE Trump Post Says Joe Biden Visited Moscow In 1987, Implicates Him In Various Conspiracy Theories Post Is Phony

    Fact Check: FAKE Trump Post Says Joe Biden Visited Moscow In 1987, Implicates Him In Various Conspiracy Theories

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Ed Payne
  • Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Trump Bowing To Xi As They Shake Hands -- It's Digitally Edited Unbending

    Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Trump Bowing To Xi As They Shake Hands -- It's Digitally Edited

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Ed Payne
  • Fact Check: Image Of Crowds Does NOT Show 'Unite The Kingdom' Rally In London On May 16, 2026 Predates It

    Fact Check: Image Of Crowds Does NOT Show 'Unite The Kingdom' Rally In London On May 16, 2026

    Fact Check

    • May 18, 2026
    • by: Uliana Malashenko

Share your opinion

Share Tweet
Home About IFCN Code of Principles How we work Satire Policy Privacy Policy Corrections Policy Corrections Archive Contact
Български English Espanol Magyar Română Русский Slovensky Українська

Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet.
Spotted something? Let us know!.

Lead Stories is a:

  • Verified signatory of the IFCN Code of Principles
  • Verified EFCSN member
IFCN logo EFCSN logo
© 2015-2024 Lead Stories LLC - All rights reserved.

Lead Stories

  • Home
  • Fact Check
  • US icon US
  • UK icon UK
  • EU icon Europe & EU
  • Ireland icon Ireland
  • Canada icon Canada
  • War icon War 🇷🇺 & 🇺🇦
  • Coronavirus icon Corona Virus
  • Democrats icon Blue Feed
  • Republicans icon Red Feed
  • Deepfakes icon Deep fakes
  • Breaking icon Breaking News
  • Elections icon Elections 2024
  • Business
  • Current Events
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • International
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Corrections
  • Analysis
  • Explainer
  • Satire