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Plenty of solid research has found the vaccines authorized for use against COVID-19 to be safe and effective. But some anti-vaccine activists are mischaracterizing government data to imply the jabs are dangerous.

Matt Slocum/AP

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Matt Slocum/AP

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Anti-Vaccine Activists Use A Federal Database To Spread Fear About COVID Vaccines

The system is designed to provide early warning of what might or might not be actual side effects. But anti-vaccine groups are bending the data to their own ends.