COVID Vaccine Study Prompts Misleading Claims About Potential Side Effects
The study found rare occurrences of adverse events, but social media users are overemphasizing the risks.
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On December 14, 2020, Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at New York’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first person to receive a non-trial dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States—kicking off the largest public health campaign in history. By March 2023 more than 5.55 billion people, approximately 72.3 percent of the world’s population, had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
