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YouturnHealth & medicine

A medicine to cure corona in just two hours has been found in Indonesia. A concoction of tender coconut water, a teaspoon of salt, a spoon of honey with half lemon squeezed is consumed by the people and they get cured of corona in the next two hours. Their covid test results turn negative three days after the consumption of this concoction once. Generally, people are intaking it once or twice a week. This famous medicine from Indonesia is now have spread to Malaysia.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

APA - Austrian Presse AgenturHealth & medicine

In Niederösterreich ist der Anteil der Geimpften bei Neuinfektionen mit 43 Prozent sehr hoch. Die Impfung nützt daher nichts.

Publisher’s rating: Die 43 Prozent beinhalten auch einfach geimpfte Personen, die keinen vollständigen Impfschutz haben. Der Anteil vollständig geimpfter Personen an symptomatischen Neuinfektionen beträgt laut AGES-Daten für Niederösterreich lediglich 12 Prozent, bei weiteren zehn Prozent handelt es sich um Teilimmunisierungen. Da Impfstoffe darauf abzielen, schwere Erkrankungen und nicht Infektionen zu verhindern, hat der Anteil Geimpfter an den gesamten Infektionen wenig Aussagekraft.

The claim linked two different points: that vaccinated people made up 43 percent of new infections in Niederösterreich, and that this showed vaccination was ineffective. The review traces the 43 percent figure to a newspaper report about positive tests from July 7–26, 2021. In that period, 22.2 percent of positive tests were among fully vaccinated people and 21.1 percent among partially vaccinated people; adding those groups produced the cited 43 percent. That figure therefore did not represent fully vaccinated people alone. The review also reports a separate AGES analysis of symptomatic infections in Niederösterreich during July 2021. Of 1,106 people with a confirmed symptomatic infection, 137—12 percent—were fully vaccinated; a further 10 percent were partially immunized. The review notes that the two sets of figures may differ because their observation periods were not the same, or because the newspaper figures may have included asymptomatic infections. It says the available data did not establish which explanation accounted for the difference. Those case shares alone do not establish whether vaccination works: the review explains that the vaccines were developed to prevent COVID-19 illness, rather than infection itself, and that the proportion of cases among vaccinated people must be considered in relation to vaccination coverage. It cites AGES data and an expert comment to support that distinction. The 43 percent figure thus combined fully and partially vaccinated people, while the inference that it proved vaccination ineffective was not warranted by that figure alone.

BR24-FaktenfuchsHealth & medicine

Eine Corona-Infektion kann Erektionsstörungen auslösen

Publisher’s rating: Dass Erektionsstörungen nach einer durchlaufenen Corona-Infektionen gehäuft auftreten - also ein kausaler Zusammenhang besteht - ist bisher nicht sicher belegt. Wissenschaftler halten es aber für sehr plausibel, dass Corona Erektionsstörungen auslöst.

dpaHealth & medicine

En Israël comme en Angleterre, les personnes vaccinées constituent la majorité des personnes hospitalisées ou décédant à cause du COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Les sources utilisées par l’auteur de la publication sont correctes. Mais leur interprétation est fausse. Le nombre de personnes vaccinées dans les deux pays est supérieur au nombre de personnes non-vaccinées. La probabilité que les personnes hospitalisées ou attrapant le virus soient vaccinées est donc elle aussi plus élevée.

dpaHealth & medicine

Video toont hoe op de Londense metro passagiers worden gescheiden in verschillende wagonnen naar gelang hun vaccinatiestatus.

Publisher’s rating: De video is afkomstig van een Brits satirisch Youtubekanaal. Het geeft geen echte weergave van de huidige maatregelen in de metro's in Londen. Er wordt geen onderscheid gemaakt tussen reizigers op basis van vaccinatiestatus en daar zijn geen plannen toe, aldus Transport for London.

The video shows a man in a London Tube carriage using a megaphone to tell passengers that they will be separated according to vaccination status, with unvaccinated passengers directed to other carriages. The review examined that specific video and the claim circulating with it, rather than a general proposal about transport rules. Transport for London (TfL), which runs the Tube, told dpa that the separation shown was not real policy and that the man was neither a TfL employee nor acting on its behalf. The review also reports that TfL said there were no such plans. The video was posted on 10 August 2021 by the British satirical YouTube channel “social experimentalist.” Its description calls it a social experiment and says the man is posing as a covid marshal. The man, Danny Shine, said his channel was “only for entertainment” and told viewers not to believe what he said. These details identify the footage as a staged piece, not evidence of an actual Tube announcement or rule. The review distinguishes the real vest, marked “covid marshal,” from the false impression created by the scene. It says UK covid marshals supported police and enforcement services in checking coronavirus measures, but did not have authority to impose sanctions or enforce the rules. That background does not substantiate a policy of sorting Tube passengers by vaccination status.

dpaHealth & medicine

Vaccins vernietigen elk systeem van het menselijk lichaam, oversterfte Israël veroorzaakt door vaccinaties, kans op overlijden door Pfizer-prik 1:3000.

Publisher’s rating: Vrijwel elke concrete bewering in het bericht is onjuist. De cijfers die het IPC in haar rapport presenteert zijn in de meeste gevallen zeer misleidend en ongefundeerd. De oversterfte in Israël in de periode januari tot maart 2021 kwam door het coronavirus. Van de meldingen van overlijdens na vaccinatie heeft het IPC niet gecontroleerd of het vaccin de daadwerkelijke doodsoorzaak was.