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Mar. 25—The Better Business Bureau's Texas Senior Medicare Patrol is warning that some would-be fraudsters have been carrying out an email scam that looks like a survey related to COVID-19 ...
Public health officials are warning of scammers who promise early access to the vaccine for people who hand over their Social Security Number to callers. With the initial supply of the first Covid ...
Sep. 5—The Federal Trade Commission gives information on the latest scam involving Medicare and COVID-19 kits and what to do if a person becomes a victim of the scam. 1 What is the scam? In June ...
In March 2021, 19% of US adults claimed to have been vaccinated while 50% announced plans to get vaccinated. [150] [151] A 2022 study found a link between online COVID-19 misinformation and early vaccine hesitancy and refusal. [152] Despite a strong association between vaccine hesitancy and Republican vote share at the US county and state ...
The FDA later clarified that it has not approved any therapeutics or drugs to treat COVID-19, but that studies were underway to see if chloroquine could be effective in treatment of COVID-19. [146] [147] Following Trump's claim, panic buying of chloroquine was reported from many countries in Africa, Latin America and South Asia.
Benefit/grant scams. In this variation of COVID-19 scams, the fraudster claims that the victim is eligible for a COVID-19 benefit payment. This scam is a derivative of the advance-fee scam, where the scammer will ask the victim for a small payment in return for the 'benefit'. The scammer will then ask for further payments under the guise of ...
Check BBB Scam Tracker to see if others have been duped. Search for previous complaints. Do a Google search of the business name followed by “complaints,” “reviews,” or “scam” and see ...
The Sanofi–GSK COVID‑19 vaccine is a recombinant protein subunit vaccine containing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is produced in insect cells via a baculovirus vector. It also includes an adjuvant made by GSK. It uses the same technology as Sanofi's Flublok influenza vaccine. [7] [8]