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EXPERTOS BELGAS PIDEN QUE SE INVESTIGUE A LA OMS POR FALSA PANDEMIA DEL COVID-19
Publisher’s rating: Impreciso
Op Facebook deelde een man een 'schokkend telefoongesprek' dat hij voerde met het Nederlandse Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM). In dat telefoongesprek uit de man zijn bezorgdheid over de coronamaatregelen. Aan de andere kant van de lijn zou een medewerker van het RIVM luisteren en vragen beantwoorden, al doet hij daarbij enkele opvallende uitspraken. Zo zouden zelfs verkeersdoden die besmet waren met SARS-CoV-2 als 'coronadoden' worden meegerekend. Het bewijs: een video waarin de man het nummer '0800 13 51' zou bellen. De video ging op korte tijd viraal: meer dan twee miljoen views op minder dan 24 uur. Maar horen we werkelijk een medewerker van het RIVM aan de lijn?
Publisher’s rating: Het bericht staat bol van de onwaarschijnlijkheden en onwaarheden. Het nummer is de corona hulplijn van het ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport en maakt geen deel uit van het RIVM. Bovendien is het quasi onmogelijk dat de man werkelijk met iemand van het ministerie of het RIVM heeft gesproken, omdat het betreffende callcenter het gesprek niet kan terugvinden in de databank. Ten slotte is ook de communicatiestijl zeer atypisch.
Mediante terapias innovadoras, redujimos la tasa de mortalidad en un 85% desde abril y estamos cerca de una cura
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
Op sociale media circuleren al enige tijd berichten over kinderen die in Duitsland na het dragen van een mondmasker zouden zijn overleden. Zo staat in deze post op Facebook het verhaal van een 6-jarig, verder gezond meisje dat door "CO2-vergiftiging" zou zijn overleden nadat zij in de schoolbus een mondkapje had gedragen. Het zou gaan om een meisje uit de buurt van Schweinfurt in de deelstaat Beieren.
Publisher’s rating: De Beierse politie waarschuwt voor een hoax. Van een dergelijk incident is niets bekend in Unterfranken, de streek rond Schweinfurt.
The claim concerns a Facebook post alleging that a healthy six-year-old girl from near Schweinfurt, Bavaria, died of “CO2 poisoning” after wearing a mask on a school bus. The review reports that the Bavarian police had publicly warned about this specific story and said they knew of no such incident in Unterfranken, the region around Schweinfurt. The review also reports that a police spokesperson described the story as “internet fairy tales” in comments to dpa. The spokesperson said worried citizens had contacted police after the posts circulated, and that investigators were looking into who had spread the claim. This supports the conclusion that the authorities treated the circulating account as false, while the excerpt does not describe an independently identified child or a documented death. As additional context, the review points to an earlier dpa fact-check rejecting the broader assertion that wearing a mask reduces oxygen intake. That earlier finding concerns the general mask-and-oxygen claim; the evidence addressing this particular alleged death is the police response to reports of the story.
क्या ट्रंप के जरिए सबसे ज्यादा फैलीं कोरोना पर गलत जानकारियां?
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
“There aren’t 100 million people with preexisting conditions.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Die Übertragung des Coronavirus an der Luft wird in sozialen Netzwerken diskutiert. In einem Posting bei Facebook heißt es, laut US-Seuchenbehörde Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gebe es keinen Beweis dafür, dass «COVID-19 durch die Luft übertragen» wird (hier archiviert).
Publisher’s rating: Die US-Behörde CDC hat zwar Empfehlungen geändert, aber nicht die Luft-Übertragung des Coronavirus an sich in Frage gestellt.
The Facebook post attributed to the CDC the claim that there was no evidence that COVID-19 could be transmitted through the air. The review examined the CDC’s information on how COVID-19 spreads and found that its published guidance described several routes of transmission: close contact and respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. The guidance said those droplets could reach the mouth or nose or be inhaled into the lungs. (The review describes the CDC as having changed its recommendations, without questioning airborne transmission itself.)
Victoria's lockdown is "the most severe lockdown tried anywhere in the world outside of Wuhan itself"
Publisher’s rating: Wrong
در دنیا [سالانه] ۸۰۰میلیون واکسن آنفلوآنزا تولید میشود که به اندازه ۱۰ درصد کل جمعیت جهان است.
Publisher’s rating: غیرقابل اثبات
Trotz hoher Corona-Fallzahlen lockert Belgien ab 1. Oktober einige Maßnahmen gegen die Ausbreitung des Virus - zum Beispiel die Maskenpflicht auf öffentlichen Plätzen und die Dauer der Quarantänepflicht. Laut einem Facebook-Post vom 24. September ist auch geplant, statt PCR-Tests in Zukunft die Anzahl der Krankenhausaufenthalte «als Maß der Verbreitung des Virus» heranzuziehen (hier archiviert).
Publisher’s rating: Der Post lässt Informationen weg. In Belgien sind PCR-Tests (Polymerase-Ketten-Reaktion) nach wie vor eine wichtige Datengrundlage der Corona-Statistik. Neben der Zahl der Neuinfektionen hängt es aber auch von der Auslastung der Krankenhäuser ab, welche Maßnahmen gegen die Verbreitung des Virus getroffen werden.
The Facebook post said that Belgium’s planned changes to its coronavirus response would mean using hospital admissions instead of PCR tests as a measure of the virus’s spread. The review says the post left out important context: Belgium continued to use PCR tests as an important basis for its coronavirus statistics, and decisions about measures also took hospital capacity into account. The review identifies the announcement as having been made by Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès on 23 September, with changes taking effect in October. [S1: “Am 23. September gab die belgische Ministerpräsidentin Sophie Wilmès Veränderungen in der Strategie gegen die Ausbreitung von Sars-CoV-2 bekannt, die zum Oktober in Kraft treten.”; “In Belgien sind PCR-Tests (Polymerase-Ketten-Reaktion) nach wie vor eine wichtige Datengrundlage der Corona-Statistik.”] The review describes two strands of the announced approach: expanded testing to identify more infections, and a planned epidemic “barometer” at national and regional levels. Hospital admissions were initially intended to be its main indicator, but positive PCR tests were also relevant to assessing the situation. Thus, the review distinguishes the proposed use of admissions as a principal indicator for decisions from abandoning PCR testing or removing PCR results from the assessment. [S1: “Neue Teststellen und mehr Tests sollen helfen, mehr Neuinfektionen zu ermitteln.”; “Zunächst war geplant, dabei als Hauptindikator die Zahl der Krankenhausaufnahmen heranzuziehen. Zur Lagebeurteilung spielt aber auch die Anzahl der positiven PCR-Tests eine Rolle”] The review also reports that the plan to base measures primarily on hospital admissions drew criticism: because admissions lag behind infection increases, relying on them could mean losing time while the virus was already spreading widely. It separately notes that some rules were changing, including outdoor mask requirements and a seven-day quarantine for suspected cases, while other restrictions remained in force. [S1: “Aufgrund der Inkubationszeit macht sich eine Zunahme von stationär behandelten Covid-19-Patienten erst zeitverzögert bemerkbar.”; “Außerdem wird die Quarantänepflicht bei Corona-Verdachtsfällen auf sieben Tage verkürzt. Andere Regeln zur Eindämmung der Pandemie bleiben jedoch in Kraft”]
Percentual de mortes por Covid-19 é 75% menor em países que usam hidroxicloroquina
Publisher’s rating: FALSO: A pesquisa, anônima e manipulada, foi divulgada por um site de extrema-direita com histórico de publicação de conteúdos distorcidos
Says Trump suggested that "maybe you could inject some bleach in your arm and that would take care of (the coronavirus)."
Publisher’s rating: Needs context
"The president has no plan" for the coronavirus pandemic.
Publisher’s rating: Needs context
"I’m getting (insulin) so cheap, it’s like water."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
"We're weeks away from a vaccine"
Publisher’s rating: There is a "very, very low chance" of an approved vaccine being ready by the end of October, the chief scientific adviser to the US vaccine programme has said.
Biden cerrará todo el país por el coronavirus
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
The review examines Donald Trump’s assertion during the 2020 presidential campaign that Joe Biden would “close the entire country.” It distinguishes Biden’s support for stricter measures to limit coronavirus transmission from a promise to shut down the whole economy. According to the review, Biden said in an ABC interview that he would close the country to stop the virus’s spread if scientists recommended it. The review also points to Biden’s campaign website, which described plans to reopen schools and the economy safely. Taken together, these details show that the claim omitted the scientific condition Biden stated and misstated his position as a blanket promise to close the country.
