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Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021

Does a video show something magnetic happening inside the body after a COVID-19 vaccine?

Sarah Thompson, Lead Stories

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A video purporting to show magnetism in the body from COVID-19 vaccines and graphene oxide was actually made three years before the first confirmed novel coronavirus case.

The video, with text proclaiming COVID to be "FRAUD, GENOCIDE AND MURDER …" plays off old claims that COVID-19 vaccines contain graphene oxide. Such claims, as well as claims that vaccines cause the bodies of vaccine recipients to become magnetic, have been debunked by Lead Stories and other organizations.

The video is a copy of a do-it-yourself science item that shows how "magnetic goo" can be made at home from several readily available ingredients.

The original video, titled "Crazy Magnetic Goo," was posted on YouTube on November 7, 2016, years before COVID-19 vaccines were developed.

In fact, graphene oxide is not even one of the ingredients for the DIY "magnetic goo."

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