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Manual de testes da vacina da Pfizer alerta para risco de segurança reprodutiva por 28 dias após a segunda dose
Publisher’s rating: ENGANOSO: A farmacêutica explicou ao Comprova que a recomendação não é feita para evitar mutações genéticas, mas porque os estudos dessa vacina - como de qualquer outra - não incluem gestantes. Especialistas descartam totalmente que uma vacina para covid-19 seja capaz de causar alterações genéticas nos seres humanos.
Dutzende Polizisten, die gegen Impfstoffe demonstrieren? Ein Video aus Frankreich, dass in vielen Facebook-Posts verbreitet wird, soll dies angeblich beweisen (hier archiviert). Die Polizei würde die Demonstranten unterstützen, wird behauptet, denn: «Menschen sind nicht dumm».
Publisher’s rating: Das ist falsch. Das Video wurde während eines Protestmarschs der regierungskritischen Gelbwesten am 26. Dezember 2020 in Paris aufgezeichnet. Die Polizisten nahmen nicht daran teil, sondern sicherten die Demonstration.
السلالة الجديدة من فيروس كورونا قد تصيب الأولاد بنسبة أكبر
Publisher’s rating: غير صحيح
Video yang diklaim sebagai video ratusan santri yang pingsan usai disuntik vaksin di tengah pandemi Covid-19
Publisher’s rating: Sesat
Der Virologe Christian Drosten ist in der Corona-Pandemie zu einem der bekanntesten Mediziner Deutschlands geworden. Im Internet kursieren seit Monaten Behauptungen über seine Doktorarbeit. Seine Promotionssschrift sei bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht auffindbar gewesen, heißt es, oder sie sei nicht fristgerecht veröffentlicht worden. Daraus schließt mancher, der Doktortitel sei ihm zu Unrecht verliehen worden.
Publisher’s rating: Nach der damals geltenden Promotionsordnung war es nicht nötig, die Doktorabeit öfter als drei Mal für die Universität zu drucken - wenn die Inhalte der Dissertation wie bei Christian Drosten zuvor bereits in Fachartikeln veröffentlicht waren.
احذروا اللقاح الاجباري لقاح الموت، هذا اللقاح الذي تفرضه المنظمات السرية والمسيطرة الكبرى، والتي لها المصالح والمنافع الكبرى
Publisher’s rating: غير صحيح
Claim: Fake news shared as US nurse Tiffany dead after covid 19 vaccination trail
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
Seit dem 19. Dezember 2020 ist der erste Covid-19-Impfstoff in der Schweiz zugelassen. Am 23. Dezember hat die Impfaktion hierzulande angefangen. Die Covid-19-Impfdosen der Hersteller Pfizer/Biontech sind am 22. Dezember auf dem Landweg in der Schweiz angekommen. Auf einem Foto, das auf Facebook kursiert (hier archiviert), ist ein Verkehrsunfall mit einem Lastwagen mit dem Logo von Pfizer zu sehen.
Publisher’s rating: Das Bild ist manipuliert. Es stammt von einem Artikel aus der französischen Regionalzeitung «Le Républicain Lorrain» aus dem Jahre 2019. Das Originalbild zeigt einen Lastwagen mit dem Logo «NYD Mamour» an der Fahrertür. Die Plane dagegen ist weiss und weist kein Logo auf.
The claim connects a truck shown in a Facebook image to the arrival of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses in Switzerland in December 2020. The review traces the image to a 2019 report by the French regional newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain. It says the newspaper published the original photograph in connection with a road accident on 4 March 2019 on the A4 between Phalsbourg and Saverne, in eastern France. To check the image’s provenance, the review reports that a Bing image search led to the 2019 article and its original photograph. In that photograph, the truck door bears the name NYD Mamour, while the truck’s white tarpaulin has no logo. The review therefore identifies the Pfizer branding in the circulating image as an alteration, rather than evidence that the pictured truck transported vaccine doses. The review separately confirms the Swiss delivery chronology: the first Pfizer/BioNTech doses arrived by road on 22 December 2020, and army spokesperson Stefan Hofer confirmed their safe arrival and handover to the Army Pharmacy. It says the Army Pharmacy coordinated distribution, with doses repacked according to cantonal orders. The review also notes that the army did not disclose precise logistics details; it does not identify the truck in the altered image as part of that delivery.
Video yang diklaim sebagai video antrian masuk pasien Covid-19 di Rumah Sakit Darurat (RSD) Wisma Atlet, Jakarta
Publisher’s rating: Keliru
Een afbeelding van twee omhelzende vrouwen met de tekst ‘vaccinatie maakt vrij’ en het logo van de Rijksoverheid gaat rond op Facebook. De tekst in de afbeelding doet denken aan de leus ‘Arbeit macht Frei’, die boven de poorten van concentratie- en vernietingskampen stond tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. "Wat zeggen ze ook alweer over een slogan?? Beter goed gepikt dan slecht bedacht??,” schrijft een Facebookgebruiker bij de afbeelding. Is de afbeelding met de tekst ‘vaccinatie maakt vrij’ gemaakt door de Rijksoverheid?
Publisher’s rating: De afbeelding is niet afkomstig van de Rijksoverheid. Hij werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd door de satirische nieuwssite Nieuwspaal. De afbeelding is onderdeel van een satirisch artikel van de website over een voorlichtingscampagne van de overheid.
The image at issue is the one circulated on Facebook showing two embracing women with the words ‘vaccinatie maakt vrij’ and a Dutch government logo. The review traces it to a Nieuwspaal article dated 2 January 2021, rather than to a government campaign. That article presented the slogan as the idea of an Amsterdam advertising agency for a government information campaign about coronavirus vaccinations. The review explains that the Nieuwspaal article linked the supposed advertising agency to a De Speld website, describing De Speld as another satirical platform. It therefore treats the campaign described in the article as satire, not as an actual government initiative. The review also notes that Nieuwspaal had described its own articles as satire intended to entertain or prompt thought. The image’s photograph has a separate provenance: the review identifies it as a Shutterstock stock photo made by Dean Drobot and says it was first posted in 2017. Thus, the presence of a government logo and the campaign wording in the image do not establish that the government created it; the review’s account instead links the image to the satirical Nieuwspaal article.
Die Corona-Test-Methoden werden im Internet kritisch diskutiert. In einem Facebook-Post (hier archiviert) wird der Nasen-Rachen-Abstrich, der die Basis für den Corona-Test bildet, als gesundheitsschädlich dargestellt. Er soll angeblich in dieser Form als Strafe für Sklaven im Alten Ägypten gedient haben. Die Einführung des Stäbchens sehr tief in die Nase soll gemäss dem Facebook-Post die «Heatoenzephalitisdrüse» schädigen, wodurch anschliessend Viren wie das Corona-Virus uneingeschränkt ins Gehirn gelangten.
Publisher’s rating: Die Illustration zeigt eine Augenbehandlung und keine Strafe für Sklaven, die genannte Drüse gibt es nicht. Das Hirngewebe ist von einer Knochenschicht umgeben. Dass diese von Abstrichtupfern, wie sie für die Corona-Tests verwendet werden, durchbohrt wird, ist sehr unwahrscheinlich.
TIME magazine article praising the Uttar Pradesh government for its COVID-19 management
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Factly examined a social-media claim that TIME magazine published an article praising the Uttar Pradesh government’s COVID-19 management. Its review reports that it checked the physical India edition of TIME dated December 21/December 28, 2020, and looked for the article in the contents page. The title was not listed there, and Factly says it also did not find the article in the international issue. The article’s own presentation offered another important clue: Factly observed the label “CONTENT FROM UTTAR PRADESH” at the top left. It also noted differences in fonts between that article and TIME’s editorial articles, and that the relevant pages had no page numbers. These observations support the distinction between editorial material and content presented as sponsored, rather than showing that TIME itself authored the article. Factly further reported that TIME had clarified to The Quint by email that the article was “sponsored content.” On the evidence described in the review, the claim that TIME published the piece as its own editorial article was false; the review identifies it instead as sponsored content.
భారత దేశంలో భారత్ బయోటెక్ ద్వారా తయారు చేయబడుతున్న కరోనా వాక్సిన్ ని 190 దేశాలు ముందుగానే బుక్ చేసుకున్నాయి
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
Nachdem im Netz die Behauptung verbreitet wurde, dass Cola bei Antigentests ein positives Ergebnis erzeuge, heißt es nun vermehrt: «Apfelmus hat corona (sic!)». Ein Video soll angeblich beweisen, dass die Tests unzuverlässig sind und sogar bei absurden Proben zu positiven Ergebnissen führen (hier archiviert; archiviertes Video)
Publisher’s rating: Der Antigentest liefert bei Apfelmus kein technisch korrektes positives Ergebnis. Die Säure zerstört die Struktur der Proteine auf dem Teststreifen und macht so die Farbpartikel sichtbar.
The review examines a circulating video presented as evidence that an antigen test gives a positive result with apple purée. It reports that the video’s final image clearly shows only the control line. Under the Siemens test instructions cited by the review, a visible control line without a test line indicates a negative result. The footage is poor quality, however, so the review says it cannot establish whether the test line is faintly colored. Because Roche’s instructions count faint or uneven test lines as positive, the review proceeds on the cautious assumption that the apple-purée sample shows two lines. The review explains why that appearance does not demonstrate a valid positive result for SARS-CoV-2. In the test design it describes, a test line appears when viral antigens in a human sample interact with antibodies on the strip. The review says acids can disrupt the structure of proteins and thereby make the strip’s color particles visible. It also cites a Clemson University list giving apple purée a pH of 3.1 to 3.6. Thus, even accepting the video’s ambiguous line as visible, the review attributes it to the acidic sample affecting the test strip, not to a technically valid detection of viral antigen. The review also identifies a relevant procedural omission: Siemens instructions call for dissolving the sample in extraction buffer before applying it to the test strip. It describes that buffer as helping prevent substantial pH fluctuations. The video’s appearance, as discussed in the review, therefore does not establish that the test is unreliable when used with the prescribed procedure or that apple purée has tested positive for coronavirus.
Reportagem da Globo fala a verdade e indica a não utilização de máscaras
Publisher’s rating: ENGANOSO: Post engana ao divulgar como atual uma reportagem que foi levada ao ar no início da pandemia de covid-19, quando as recomendações da OMS eram diferentes
Doctors are encouraging the injection of COVID-19 vaccines in the penis.
Publisher’s rating: Fake
Instituto Vital Brasil acha a cura para a Covid-19 no plasma equino
Publisher’s rating: ENGANOSO: O Instituto Vital Brazil de fato iniciou estudo em maio de 2020 para produzir anticorpos contra a covid-19 a partir de soro obtido de experimento em cavalos. Embora os resultados dos testes in vitro tenham sido promissores, o tratamento não pode ser considerado como a cura para a covid-19 pois os testes em humanos ainda não foram realizados.