A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.

Claim

A video shows U.S. government agents forcing students at an Idaho middle school to receive COVID-19 vaccines behind the building.

The Facts

An incendiary video circulating widely on social media this week weaponizes footage from a voluntary, health district-run vaccine clinic to push the false narrative that the U.S. military is forcibly vaccinating children.

“You’re about to see some disturbing footage,” the video’s narrator says over suspenseful music. “You’re going to see government agents escort children to their execution, to a little shed behind the school in secrecy. They pull these children out of class, they force them into getting the vaccine and they inject them in broad daylight.”

The Panhandle Health District arranged the voluntary vaccine clinic at Coeur d’Alene’s Canfield Middle School on May 28 to “reduce barriers individuals may have to receiving the vaccine” and “make it convenient for students and parents,” said Katherine Hoyer, public information officer for the health agency. It was one of several clinics held at local schools in the spring, according to Scott Maben, communications director for Coeur d’Alene Public Schools.

Maben confirmed that the event was “completely voluntary and with parent permission” and that it was organized by the Panhandle Health District, with the middle school as a venue. Maben also explained there was no truth to claims that this or other vaccine clinics at local schools were hidden from the public.

Claim

Sixty percent of people being admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 in England have had two doses of coronavirus vaccine.

The Facts

The opposite is true. Sixty percent of people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.K. are unvaccinated.

Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser for the U.K., gave the wrong statistic at a press conference last week, but issued a correction later that day. “Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July,” Vallance wrote in his post. “About 60% of hospitalisations from COVID are not from double-vaccinated people; rather, 60% of hospitalisations from COVID are currently from unvaccinated people.”

Nevertheless, social media users quickly ran with the inaccurate information without acknowledging the correction.

Claim

President Joe Biden recently announced that Americans not vaccinated for COVID-19 before 2022 will be sent to quarantine camps until they get their shots.

The Facts

An image circulating widely on Instagram pushes the false claim that Biden is planning on sending Americans to “quarantine camps.” Biden has not made any such announcement.

The image shows a screenshot of an article from the website ValueWalk.com, featuring an illustration of the president. “Announces Americans Not Vaccinated Before 2022 Will Be Put In Camps,” reads the visible part of the story’s headline.

However, at the bottom of the story, the text reveals the post is satire and originated on The Stonk Market, a financial satire website.

Claim

Canada prohibits vaccinated pilots from flying because the COVID-19 vaccine is a “medical trial” and there are health risks involved with such trials.

The Facts

Canada’s transportation agency allows pilots to receive any vaccine that’s been approved by the country’s health regulator, Health Canada, according to Transport Canada Senior Communications Adviser Sau Sau Liu.

All four COVID-19 vaccines available in Canada — vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca — went through extensive clinical trials, were found to be safe and effective and were authorized for use by Health Canada. Therefore, pilots are allowed to get the vaccines.