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Today the UK became the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine. Following this and other recent vaccine trial and approval announcements, here are five misinformation narratives reporters should be aware of when covering these stories. 
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1. A Covid-19 vaccine is unnecessary; the immune system is superior. This narrative is now comparing Covid-19 survival rates to the efficacy rates of the current vaccines to suggest that our immune systems are more capable than vaccines in protecting us from Covid-19.
The narrative that hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness eliminates the need for a Covid-19 vaccine, highly popular among many Francophone communities in Europe and Africa, has been applied to recent vaccine trial announcements.
2. “Big Pharma,” politicians and other key figures behind vaccines are driven by profit rather than public health concerns. Many posts have attacked pharmaceutical companies, suggesting their announcements — and their quick updates on them — were a way of lifting stock prices.
3. Corrupt media outlets serve as “mouthpieces for Big Pharma.” Posts amplifying the narrative claim that the media is only running articles favorable to vaccines.
4. Mandatory Covid-19 vaccines are tools to control populations. Some of these posts assert the military is going to intervene to enforce mandatory vaccinations as part of a plan to control populations.
5. Covid-19 vaccines are immoral because they are made from aborted fetuses. This misleading narrative, long used by anti-vaccine communities to formulate morality-based arguments designed to resonate with more conservative communities, has cropped up again on social media.
