There are kids sick on ventilators in hospitals with deaths. That's a fact, not fake. That it's related to something they're vaping which they got off the street and used for non-nicotine substances is a fact, not fake. The advice to teens and young adults to just plain not vape, let alone crap bought off the street is sound advice which is exactly the same as offered by members here every single day when a new non-smoking member shows up here. That's a fact, not fake.
Every mainstream media piece I've seen has stated the association of this with substances we can't name bought in non-traditional nicotine related vape stuff. That's a fact, not fake.
Just because you don't like something, or don't agree with a finding because it goes against personal belief, is not fake. That's blind dogmatic faith without any evidence to support the claim.