After Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia had secured 1 million Pfizer doses from Poland, a slew of misinformation spread online about their safety and provenance.
"Just because a case is listed in the system does not mean that it is authentic or has been validated by medical professionals," Snopes fact checkers noted in their analysis of the original Facebook claims.
Catherine Bennett, chair in epidemiology at Deakin University, told Fact Check that most serious adverse events occurring after vaccination did not turn out to be related, but that it was important they were reported so that possible rare side effects could be detected. "If these events are occurring at normal background rates and there is no plausible link back to the mother's vaccination, then these are ruled out as being vaccine-related."
Meanwhile, UN children's agency UNICEF has said breast milk from a vaccinated mother poses little risk to babies, "While there is little plausible risk for the child, there is a biologically plausible benefit," the academy noted."Antibodies transferred into milk may therefore protect the infant from infection with SARS-CoV-2."A TikTok video purporting to show NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller being served with a writ "on live TV" has been edited to paint a misleading picture of the June 28 incident.
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