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Uit studie van NEJM blijkt dat zwangere vrouwen die zich in de eerste twee trimesters laten inenten tegen COVID-19 82% kans op miskraam hebben. 4 van de 5 ongeboren baby's sterven hierdoor.
Publisher’s rating: De beweringen zijn fout. Van de vrouwen die deelnamen aan de NEJM-studie kreeg 12,6% een miskraam. Dat is helaas een gemiddeld cijfer: miskramen zijn nu eenmaal een veelvoorkomende gebeurtenis. Uit de studie blijkt geen gevaar voor zwangere vrouwen en hun baby die ervoor kiezen ingeënt te worden tegen COVID-19.
ಮೋದಿಯವರ ಒಂದೇ ದಿನದ ಕೊರೊನಾ ಲಸಿಕೆ ಅಭಿಯಾನವನ್ನು ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಮನಮೋಹನ್ ಸಿಂಗ್ ಅವರ ಅಧಿಕಾರಾವಧಿಯ ಪಲ್ಸ್ ಪೋಲಿಯೋ ಅಭಿಯಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಲಿಕೆ.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
Dionisia Pacquiao was hospitalized after fainting
Publisher’s rating: Fake
ষ্টেন স্বামীৰ অৱস্থা সংকটজনক আছিল। পাৰ্কিনছন ৰোগৰ উপৰিও তেওঁ ক’ভিডতো আক্ৰান্ত হৈছিল।
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Quote uit boek van Jacques Attali uit 1981 spreekt over reductie van de bevolking, euthanasie en een pandemie.
Publisher’s rating: Attali heeft de uitspraken nooit gedaan. Ze zijn fictief of uit hun context gerukt, zoals hij zelf bevestigde. De quotes zijn nep en het bericht is dan ook fout.
The viral quote is presented as an excerpt from Jacques Attali’s 1981 interview with journalist Michel Salomon for *L’avenir de la vie*. It attributes to Attali a plan to reduce the world’s population, including by euthanasia and a deliberately caused pandemic. The review distinguishes that viral wording from the real book and interview: both existed, and Attali was interviewed, but the review reports that Attali told dpa in April 2021 that he had never said or written the viral words. The review traces likely ingredients of the fabricated or distorted quote to two separate passages. In the book, Attali discusses the social and economic implications of living beyond 60 or 65, and later responds to a question about euthanasia posed by Salomon. The review says the viral quote’s phrasing about euthanasia affecting targeted groups does not appear in those passages; Salomon, not Attali, first raises the subject in their exchange. It also identifies a possible source for the pandemic element: a chapter on epidemics in Attali’s 1998 *Dictionnaire du XXIe siècle*, which discusses disease outbreaks and mass mortality, not deliberately causing a pandemic to reduce the population.
Les souscripteurs d'un emprunt hypothécaire qui ont été vaccinés s'exposent à des ennuis.
Publisher’s rating: C’est archi-faux, ont affirmé à la dpa plusieurs experts des secteurs de la banque et de l’assurance. La vaccination, recommandée par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), n’est absolument pas considérée comme un facteur de risque justifiant la rupture d’un contrat d’emprunt hypothécaire en Belgique.
The claim concerned a post by a member of the “Independent Citizens” group alleging that Belgian mortgage agreements prohibit participation in clinical trials. The post treated Covid-19 vaccination as experimental and argued that banks could therefore cancel borrowers’ mortgages and take their property. The review reproduces the post’s claims and examines whether the alleged contractual restriction and consequence were supported. The review sought input from banking and insurance professionals. An experienced director of a bank branch said the bank handles the loan, while a legally separate insurer assesses the customer’s health for life cover through a medical questionnaire. The director also said a change to banking regulations would require FSMA acceptance. These distinctions undermine the post’s portrayal of the bank as able to cancel a mortgage merely because a borrower was vaccinated. The insurance sources likewise did not support the alleged exclusion. Assuralia spokesperson Barbara Van Speybroeck said her organization’s research found no examples of experimental treatment being an exclusion condition, and said vaccination was not considered an experiment. Angel Collia, an insurance manager at Prefibel-STE in Brussels, said clinical trials were not an exclusion ground except in the context of nuclear trials, and noted that Covid-19 was recognized and its vaccines were recognized by the WHO. The evidence described in the review therefore does not support the claim that vaccination itself gives Belgian banks grounds to terminate mortgages.
People are able to stick magnets to the site of their Covid-19 vaccination
Publisher’s rating: False. Covid-19 vaccines do not contain ingredients that can produce an electromagnetic field at the site of injection
تسنیم: «صهیونیستها از طریق تولید و توزیع داروهای ضدبارداری در ایران در پی عقیمسازی ایرانیان هستند»
Publisher’s rating: شاخدار
WHO offered $20 million to Madagascar President to put toxins in their COVID-19 remedy
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns an alleged WHO offer to Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina: $20 million in exchange for putting toxins in a local COVID-19 remedy. FACTLY reports that it found no evidence he made that accusation and that a spokesperson for Madagascar’s presidency denied the claim. The review concludes that the allegation was false. The review traces the allegation to a French-language Facebook post from an account operating from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo on 23 April 2020. It says two Tanzanian newspapers later published versions on 14 May, with one alleging that Rajoelina had admitted the offer in an interview with France 24. FACTLY checked the interview, which took place on 11 May 2020, and reports that he did not say WHO had offered him money. The review also reports that WHO told the BBC the story was fake and that Madagascar’s government dismissed the allegation. The allegation arose amid discussion of Covid-Organics, a herbal drink launched by Rajoelina in April 2020 and promoted as a way to prevent and cure COVID-19. The review distinguishes his documented criticism of WHO’s concerns about the drink from the separate, unsupported claim that WHO offered him money to poison it. It also notes that WHO cautioned against adopting products not tested for efficacy while welcoming innovations based on traditional remedies.
করোনা প্রতিরোধে প্রফেসর এবিএম আব্দুল্লাহ এর পরামর্শে ব্যবস্থাপত্র
Publisher’s rating: False
Portugese rechtbank heeft officiële gegevens bekend gemaakt waaruit blijkt dat slechts 0,9% van de coronadoden stierf door corona
Publisher’s rating: Het vonnis bestaat wel degelijk, maar de conclusies die er uit worden getrokken zijn fout en misleidend. In de periode van januari 2020 tot april 2021 waren er 152 sterfgevallen waarbij de overlijdensakte rechtstreeks werd afgegeven door artsen van het Ministerie van Justitie. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat de enige corona-overlijdens in die periode waren, verre van.
people become ‘silent spreaders’ after first dose of COVID vaccine
Publisher’s rating: IISER Kolkata clarified that no such evidence has been found in any papers published by the institute.
Hugo de Jonge laat eigen kinderen niet vaccineren.
Publisher’s rating: Naar alle waarschijnlijkheid gaat het over de inenting tegen COVID-19. Het bericht klopt niet. Dpa heeft navraag gedaan bij een woordvoerster van De Jonge en die bevestigt dat de kinderen van de minister zich wel zullen laten vaccineren tegen het coronavirus. Ook zou de keuze anders aan hen zelf zijn geweest.
CEO Pfizer is nog altijd niet gevaccineerd
Publisher’s rating: De facebookposts zijn onjuist. De bestuursvoorzitter van Pfizer is wel degelijk gevaccineerd. Hij deelde op 10 maart 2021 een foto van zijn tweede prik op Twitter. De interviews die op Facebook worden aangehaald zijn niet recent, maar dateren allebei van 14 december 2020. Dit was de eerste dag dat mensen in de Verenigde Staten werden gevaccineerd tegen COVID-19. Bourla was toen volgens de opgestelde vaccinatievolgorde nog niet aan de beurt.