Publisher’s rating: Das ist falsch. «VirX» soll lediglich als eine Art Schutzschild vor der Verbreitung und Ansteckung mit Corona schützen, mit dem Nasenspray kann man sich aber nicht gegen das Virus impfen. Solche Impfstoffe sind in Deutschland bislang noch nicht zugelassen.

The claim concerns the specific antiviral nasal spray VirX, not nasal delivery of a vaccine in general. The review says VirX was first approved in Israel in July 2021 and was available for purchase in Germany. It describes the product’s active ingredient as nitric oxide: according to the manufacturer, this is intended to form a chemical barrier against viruses. The review therefore distinguishes the spray’s proposed protective action from vaccination; it says VirX does not contain a coronavirus vaccine. The review also explains why two articles linked as evidence could be misleading in this context. It says the MDR and Weser Kurier articles discussed the possibility of administering coronavirus vaccines nasally, rather than VirX. It reports that nasal vaccines were authorized in China and that Bharat Biotech had developed one permitted for use in India. The review states that, as of 6 October 2023, Germany had no coronavirus vaccine authorized as a nasal spray. Those examples concern separate products and do not establish that VirX contains a vaccine.

LupaOct 6, 2023Health & medicine

CDC admite que falsificou 99% das mortes por COVID-19 para assustar o público e fazê-lo tomar a vacina.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

LupaOct 6, 2023Health & medicine

Governo canadense admite que 74% dos triplamente vacinados agora têm AIDS

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Folha de S.PauloOct 5, 2023Health & medicine

Artigo compartilhado por virologista no X, antigo Twitter, afirma que o Centro de Controle e Prevenção de Doenças (CDC) dos Estados Unidos admitiu que “falsificou 99% das mortes por covid-19 para assustar o público e fazê-lo tomar a vacina”. Segundo o texto, dados da agência de saúde revelam que apenas 1,7% das 324 mortes pelo vírus registradas na semana encerrada em 19 de agosto de 2023 tiveram a doença como principal causa de óbito.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim turns a statistic about the share of deaths from all causes into an assertion that the CDC admitted to falsifying COVID-19 deaths. The Folha review says the post attributed that allegation to the CDC’s COVID Data Tracker, but concludes that it distorted what the tracker measured: “A peça de desinformação, verificada pelo Projeto Comprova, usa como base uma afirmação incorreta publicada pelo Daily Mail em 28 de agosto, mas que foi corrigida no dia seguinte.” The review describes the underlying error as a mistaken reading of CDC data for the week ending August 19, 2023. The Daily Mail initially said that 99% of COVID deaths that week were not primarily caused by the virus; after correcting the article, it explained that the percentage comparison used deaths from all causes as its denominator. The CDC tracker’s footnote likewise said the percentage of all reported deaths attributed to COVID-19 was calculated “com base no número de mortes por todas as causas.” The review reports that the CDC table showed 881 deaths from COVID-19 in the week of August 13–19, representing 1.6% of all deaths reported in that interval—not 324 COVID deaths with only 1.7% primarily caused by the virus. It therefore found no support in these data for the claim that the CDC falsified 99% of COVID-19 deaths or admitted doing so.

Factcrescendo Sri LankaOct 5, 2023Health & medicine

Robert De Niro Criticizing Vaccines And Pharmacological Industry Now!!(Video)

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The post presents a video of Robert De Niro discussing vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry as current. The review identifies the footage as a 2016 NBC News broadcast, not a recent recording. It concludes that the video’s age is the key omitted context: De Niro’s comments were made years before the post circulated as current. The review describes its investigation as checking the video’s provenance and says the original video was available to watch.