{"id":3643,"date":"2023-12-01T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2023-12-04T01:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T06:26:43","slug":"fact-check-iceland-has-not-banned-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/fact-check-iceland-has-not-banned-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A headline shared online falsely claims that Iceland has banned COVID-19 vaccines and cites sudden deaths for which there is no evidence, according to the Icelandic national health authority.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines and \u201cthere are no soaring sudden deaths,\u201d Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Aspelund, chief epidemiologist at the Icelandic Directorate of Health, told Reuters in a Nov.&nbsp;29 email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headline shared online falsely claims that Iceland has banned COVID-19 vaccines and cites sudden deaths for which there is no evidence, according to the Icelandic national health authority.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines and \u201cthere are no soaring sudden deaths,\u201d Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Aspelund, chief epidemiologist at the Icelandic Directorate of Health, told Reuters in a Nov.&nbsp;29 email.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/fact-check-iceland-has-not-banned-covid-vaccines\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fact Check: Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,127,525,18,35,677,14,130,15],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-covid-denial","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-iceland","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}