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Oh, I actually believe it happened. It's not that uncommon to see people faint after getting vaccinated (even an hour or two later), and the Covid shot is no exception. Rather than attributing the doctor's response to a grand conspiracy by an evil pharmaceutical industry, however, I suspect it was just an overworked ER doctor trying to avoid having to deal with the extra paperwork associated with reporting an adverse vaccine reaction, especially when it's such a routine side effect and that single report isn't going to amount to anything in the grand scheme of informed risk analysis. That's not a very ethical thing to do, and it's very much not best practice, but it's a whole lot less nefarious than our vaccine-fearing friend seems to want to believe it is.

Anecdotes can absolutely be misinformation, though. By their nature, they overstate the risks involved and provide a very narrow picture of the situation, which can be very misleading if they're presented as being more significant than they are (such as following the anecdote with "they're all lying to you the vaccines are dangerous"). That's misinformation.