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| - Last Updated on March 10, 2023 by Neelam Singh
Quick Take
A social media post claims that covid vaccine has nearly doubled stillbirths in Singapore. We fact-checked and found the claim to be Mostly False.
The Claim
The Instagram post contains a screenshot of a substack essay written by Alex Berenson who is a former New York Times reporter. In the essay, Berenson claimed that covid vaccine has nearly doubled stillbirths in Singapore has been shared by.
Fact Check
Has Covid vaccine nearly doubled stillbirths in Singapore?
Not exactly. It is difficult to confirm with the available evidence that stillbirths in Singapore have nearly doubled since the country began vaccinating its residents.
On March 01, 2023, Berenson wrote an essay titled ‘URGENT: Stillbirths nearly doubled in Singapore, one of the world’s most mRNA vaccinated countries, in 2022’ on substack. In the essay, he linked the increased cases of stillbirths in Singapore in 2022 and pregnant women being injected with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Later, we found that Berenson updated his essay with a note that reads:
‘NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS ESSENTIALLY INCORRECT – SINGAPORE CHANGED ITS DEFINITION OF STILLBIRTHS. SEE POSTED CORRECTION OF MARCH 2, 2023. I am leaving it up in the interests of completeness (and because its statistics about the fall in live births are correct), but know that it is wrong.’
On March 02, 2023, Berenson published another essay titled ‘URGENT: Update/CORRECTION to previous Singapore article’ to show that Singapore has changed and broadened its definition of stillbirth in late May 2022, causing a reported increase in stillbirths.’
We researched online and found that Singapore has a newly altered reporting process for births and deaths that seems to have increased the number of stillbirths in the city.
Besides this, we also found that Berenson was banned on Twitter in August 2021 for spreading misinformation about the pandemic.
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