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dpaHealth & medicine

Nobelpreisgewinner Matagnier hat bestätigt, dass alle Geimpften innerhalb von zwei Jahren sterben werden.

Publisher’s rating: Diese Behauptung ist falsch. Montagnier hat das nicht gesagt.

The claim circulated with a Facebook post featuring a video excerpt of French virologist and Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier. The post’s accompanying text alleged that “all vaccinated people will die within two years” and that Montagnier had confirmed there was no chance of survival for anyone who received a vaccine. The review examined whether that prediction was present in the video or elsewhere in Montagnier’s statements. The review reports that it found no such statement in the interview excerpt and no other instance of Montagnier saying that all vaccinated people would die within two years or had no chance of survival. It also notes that the organization that circulated the interview had itself said Montagnier never made that prediction. That evidence addresses the attribution at the center of the claim: the review distinguishes the prediction attributed to him from views he did express about vaccines. In the interview, Montagnier did claim that vaccination would cause mutations in the COVID-19 virus and produce new infectious variants, attributing this to antibody-dependent enhancement. The review says many other scientists did not share that view. It cites a Nature article saying a definitive role for ADE in human coronavirus disease was not known and that clinical data did not then fully establish it. Those points concern the separate scientific argument in the interview; they do not substantiate the claimed two-year death prediction.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Video of Patanjali’s Balkrishna admitted to hospital by Baba Ramdev recently

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post presented footage of Patanjali’s Acharya Balkrishna being taken to hospital as a recent event, with Baba Ramdev accompanying him. The review says the claim circulated amid criticism by Ramdev of allopathy, but the footage did not document a recent deterioration in Balkrishna’s health: it showed an earlier hospital admission. The review also notes the post’s assertion that he had not been given a Patanjali product. To check the video’s origin, the investigators performed a reverse image search on screenshots and found similar visuals in a News360Live YouTube video uploaded on 26 August 2019. The video was titled “Acharya Balkrishna of Patanjali Yogpeeth rushed to AIIMS”; its description said he had been rushed to the ICU at AIIMS, Rishikesh. The review reports that the video’s narration described him as arriving in a state of altered consciousness. The review then searched for reporting about the hospital admission and found articles from 2019. It says a report dated 24 August 2019 described Balkrishna first being taken to a hospital in Haridwar after complaining of giddiness and chest pain, then being taken to AIIMS Rishikesh’s emergency ward. According to the review’s account of a Times of India report, he was later discharged after tests found his vital organs normal. The review found no recent reports of a deterioration or hospital admission, and concluded that old footage was being presented as current.

dpaHealth & medicine

(1) 86% jongeren Pfizer-proef kreeg bijwerkingen, (2) 39% kreeg koorts na tweede prik en (3) komt door spike-eiwitten

Publisher’s rating: Het bericht mist context. In één van de tabellen uit de factsheet komt inderdaad 86% naar voren, maar dat gaat niet over specifieke bijwerkingen. Daar liggen de percentages veel lager. 86% van de kinderen uit de test ervaart pijn op de plek van prikken. Bij ruim 41% gaat het om milde pijn, een kleine 44% heeft gemiddelde pijn, en slechts één procent van alle ingeënte kinderen ervaart ernstige pijn. Dat 39% koorts kreeg, is onzin.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Image showing present dilapidated condition of Mohalla clinic in Delhi

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a photograph of a dilapidated Mohalla clinic in Delhi, presented as showing the clinic’s current condition. FACTLY identifies the pictured location as the Babarpur Mohalla clinic and says the image instead shows its condition in 2018. The review reports finding the same image in a 2018 news article about the deteriorated clinic in Babarpur, which supports the conclusion that the photograph predates the claim that it shows the present-day condition. [S1] The review also describes evidence about the clinic’s later condition. After Delhi BJP leader Gautam Gambhir shared the image, the Aam Aadmi Party’s official Delhi account responded with a video of an AAP councillor showing the clinic’s present condition. FACTLY says that condition was not similar to the one depicted in the circulated image. [S1] Taken together, the review’s image match to 2018 reporting and its account of the later video indicate that the photograph was old, not a depiction of the clinic’s present condition. The review also notes an October 2019 inauguration in Babarpur’s Kabir Nagar, but does not say that event establishes the photographed clinic’s exact condition at the time of the social-media post. [S1]