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Explore claims publishers have checked about health & medicine. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

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NewtralHealth & medicine

Henry Kissinger dice que hay que reducir la población mediante vacunas por el bien común

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns an image circulated online that attributes to Henry Kissinger a speech supposedly delivered to a “Council of Eugenics” at the World Health Organization. The image alleges that people should be treated as a herd and reduced through mandatory vaccination for the common good. Newtral reports that the image had circulated for at least a year and that its Spanish-language version gained traction during the coronavirus crisis. The review says the supposed institution does not exist and that Kissinger did not deliver the attributed speech. It reports that WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told PolitiFact that the organization had no record of such a speech. Newtral also notes that other fact-checking organizations had previously investigated the image. These points address both the claimed venue and the alleged statement, rather than merely disputing a general view about vaccines. The review distinguishes the fabricated speech from a real but different item: Kissinger’s participation in a 1974 study on how world population growth could affect US national security and overseas interests. It says that study is the only connection it could link to Kissinger on population, and that anti-vaccine groups have used it to support a separate allegation about vaccines and sterilization. The review does not present the study as evidence that Kissinger made the viral statement.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Recent video of two dead bodies dumped in the open at Gandhi Hospital (COVID—19 dedicated hospital) in Hyderabad, Telangana

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The post presented footage of two bodies at Gandhi Hospital as recent and connected to the COVID-19 situation there. FACTLY’s review found that the same video had been online since at least August 2019, so the footage did not establish a present-day incident or a connection to the hospital’s COVID-19 response. The review therefore concluded that the claim’s timing and pandemic framing were misleading. To check the video’s history, FACTLY reports using screenshots in a Google Reverse Image Search. The search led to the same video on YouTube in August 2019, titled “Two dead bodies Gandhi Hospital parking area,” and to a Facebook upload from that month with a similar description. Those earlier uploads are the key evidence against describing the footage as recent. The review did not independently establish what happened in the video. It says The New Indian Express reported on the incident when the video went viral in August 2019, and that the hospital’s then superintendent denied the allegations and called them false news. That reported denial is relevant context, but the excerpt does not provide independent verification of the video’s actual circumstances.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturHealth & medicine

Une publication Facebook, diffusée sur un groupe belge, prétend que « Vladimir Poutine refuse les vaccins anti-covid ». En cliquant sur le lien de l’article, qui renvoie vers un blog, on lit un article datant du 1er juillet 2020. Son titre : « Poutine ne participera pas à l’escroquerie Coronavirus et à la vaccination de sa population organisées par l’OMS et Bill Gates ! ».

Publisher’s rating: Les allégations sont fausses. Deux vaccins russes contre le coronavirus sont actuellement à l’essai sur l’homme en Russie.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturHealth & medicine

Auf Facebook wird in einem Beitrag ein Teil eines Artikels des Blogs «Alles Schall und Rauch» geteilt, in dem behauptet wird, in Italien seien 96 Prozent der «Virustodesfälle» angeblich «auf andere Krankheiten zurückzuführen». (http://dpaq.de/2vTRi) Im entsprechenden Artikel auf dem Blog werden als scheinbarer Beleg dafür Zahlen des italienischen Gesundheitsinstitutes (ISS) herangezogen.

Publisher’s rating: Diese Aussage lässt sich anhand der Zahlen des italienischen Gesundheitsinstitutes (ISS) nicht belegen. Laut ISS hatten mehr als 90 Prozent der gestorbenen Covid-19-Patienten mindestens eine Vorerkrankung, etwa Diabetes oder Bluthochdruck. Dies bedeutet jedoch ausdrücklich nicht, dass sie nicht ursächlich an Covid-19 gestorben sind.

The claim concerned a Facebook post sharing part of an Alles Schall und Rauch blog article. The blog used Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) figures to assert that 96 percent of virus deaths were “due to other illnesses.” The review examines what those figures measured and whether they support that conclusion. (S1) The ISS report dated 21 May analyzed data on 31,096 deceased patients who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. But usable information about pre-existing conditions was available for only 3,032 of them. The reported 96 percent referred to the share of that smaller group who had at least one pre-existing condition—not the share shown to have died from a condition other than Covid-19. (S1) The review also traces a graphic used in the blog post to a Bloomberg article about the ISS report. It says neither the ISS report nor the graphic stated that patients died from their listed pre-existing conditions, and that the figures do not establish that conclusion. Having a condition such as high blood pressure or diabetes does not, by itself, mean a person died from it. (S1) The review reports additional ISS findings that provide relevant context: 92.3 percent of admitted patients had conditions or symptoms consistent with Covid-19, including pneumonia, respiratory failure, fever, or cough. In only 7.7 percent of cases was the diagnosis at hospital admission unrelated to the virus infection. These admission figures are distinct from the statistics on pre-existing conditions. (S1)

BR24 FaktenfuchsHealth & medicine

DNA-Impfungen lösen "sehr wahrscheinlich" bei geimpften Menschen Autoimmunerkrankungen aus. DarunterKrankheiten wie Vitiligo, Darmerkrankungen, Rheuma oder Krebs.

Publisher’s rating: Falsch. Bisher gibt es keine Studien, die diese Krankheitsbilder als "sehr wahrscheinlich" bezeichnen. Eine Sprecherin des Paul-Ehrlich-Institutes betont, dass "für die neuen Impfstoffe die klinischen Prüfungen jetzt" anliefen, jedoch geben "bisherige Daten keinen Hinweis auf entsprechende Nebenwirkungen."

Vishvas NewsHealth & medicine

जेव्हा पण बाहेर जाल तेव्हा आपल्यासोबत बग स्प्रे सोबत घेऊन जा, कारण बाहेर मच्छर असतात. मी चुकीचा असू शकतो, पण मला वैयक्तिकरित्या अस वाटतं कि जर एखाद्या मच्छर नि #coronavirus संक्रमित व्यक्ती ला चावले आणि नंतर तुम्हला, तर तुम्हाला कोरोनाव्हायरस हू शकतो. मी स्मार्ट नाही पण स्वतःच्या सुरक्षिततेसाठी इतकं नक्की करा.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

BR24 FaktenfuchsHealth & medicine

DNA-Impfungen greifen "in unser Genom" ein.

Publisher’s rating: Falsch. Zusammengefasst lässt sich sagen: Keiner der derzeit geplanten Impfstoffe greift direkt in das menschliche Genom ein, wie in der Sprachnachricht behauptet wird, oder wirkt "genverändernd".