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'Died suddenly' posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies

Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver's autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine.

A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia's name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji. A Facebook user messaged her mother, Jessica Day-Weaver, to call her a "murderer" for having her child vaccinated.

Vaccine Died Suddenly Misinformation

From left, Andrew Weaver, Caitlin Weaver and Jessica Day-Weaver hold a ceramic handprint of late daughter Anastasia on Feb. 2 at their home in Boardman, Ohio.

Vaccine Died Suddenly Misinformation

Jessica Day-Weaver poses Feb. 2 next to a picture collage made of her late daughter Anastasia at her home in Boardman, Ohio.

Vaccine Died Suddenly Misinformation

Dolores Cruz looks at a college of pictures of her youngest son, Eric Cruz, and some of his bandmates on Feb. 1 at her home in San Gabriel, Calif. Her son died in a car crash in 2017.





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