What Happened to the Hantavirus Predictions?
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Do you remember all of those hantavirus predictions from anti-vaccine influencers?
How many of their conspiracy theories came true?
What Happened to the Hantavirus Predictions?
From talk of gain-of-function lab leaks, forced hantavirus vaccines, and use of hantavirus as a bioweapon, let’s check in on all of their conspiracy theories.
Hantavirus conspiracy theories that, not surprising, were all hype.
Like the idea that hantavirus infections are caused by COVID vaccines because they are listed as a side effect on the vaccine insert? That’s not true. Hantavirus is not actually listed in the vaccine insert for the COVID vaccine, but is only in the appendix of adverse events, and includes all events that occurred during the reporting period of the clinical trial, and don’t mean that they are associated with the vaccine. Nearly all were not.
Like the idea that hantavirus was created as a bioweapon… it wasn’t!
That the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship was being used to create panic to make people put on masks, start social distancing, and beg for a vaccine… they didn’t!
That the NIH funded hantavirus gain-of-function research and this created a highly infectious hantavirus variant that caused the cruise ship outbreak… this wasn’t true!
What about the idea that hantavirus killed Kyle Busch? This one was promoted by Peter McCullough and Rob Finnerty (Newsmax) and was of course, not true!
None of the conspiracy theories about hantavirus were true.
Fortunately, the outbreak was quickly contained and limited to 13 cases. Tragically, there were three deaths.
It should be very clear though that public health experts were not trying to create panic over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship…
During a Q&A with CIDRAP News, he explained how and why superspreaders are key to understanding the Andes strain of hantavirus, why close proximity is only part of the consideration, and why he doesn’t think this outbreak is the next “big one.”
Osterholm on hantavirus: We’re missing ‘main point of this outbreak’
All of which is a great reminder that folks should stop listening to anti-vaccine influencers!
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