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Deutsche Presse-AgenturHealth & medicine

Plusieurs utilisateurs Facebook partageaient un message supposément envoyé par une infirmière du CHU Saint-Pierre de Bruxelles. Le message, relayé sur plusieurs réseaux sociaux, annonçait que le service des urgences de l’hôpital avait reçu une trentaine de patients atteints de Covid-19 mais que la direction de l’hôpital avait fait signer une clause de confidentialité à ses employés.

Publisher’s rating: L’hôpital CHU Saint-Pierre de Bruxelles n’a pas demandé à ses employés de signer une clause de confidentialité dans le but de cacher le nombre de personnes infectées par Sars-CoV-2 présentes dans ses locaux.

The claim concerned a message circulated on social media that was purportedly from a nurse at Brussels’ CHU Saint-Pierre. It said the hospital’s emergency department had received about 30 patients with Covid-19 and that hospital management had made employees sign a confidentiality clause. The review addresses that specific allegation, rather than a general claim about hospital reporting or confidentiality. The review reports that on March 4, CHU Saint-Pierre published a denial and announced legal measures against people spreading false news about Covid-19 and the situation at the hospital. The hospital described the information as defamatory and said it had obtained an order from the president of the Brussels Court of First Instance requiring people who had shared or hosted the content to remove it. The hospital also filed a complaint for defamation. The review also compares the message’s claimed tally with a public-health announcement from the same day: Belgium’s public-health service reported 23 people infected across the country. That figure is not a count of patients at the hospital, so it does not independently establish how many people were treated at CHU Saint-Pierre. The review’s account of the hospital’s denial and legal response directly addresses the alleged confidentiality clause; the excerpt does not describe interviews, document checks, or other independent verification methods.

Vishvas NewsHealth & medicine

భల్లాతన్య. 16 అనే ఒక యూజర్ ఇన్స్టా గ్రామ్ పై షేర్ చేసిన ఒక వైరల్ పోస్ట్ లో ఇలా క్లెయిమ్ చేశారు: “జనతా కర్ఫ్యూ వెనుక ఉన్న లాజిక్….ఒకచోట కరోనా వైరస్ జీవిత కాలం 8-12 గంటల వరకు ఉండటం వలన మరియు జనతా కర్ఫ్యూ 14 గంటల వరకు విధించబడింది కాబట్టి… 12 గంటల వరకు ఆ వైరస్ మానవ శరీరాన్ని తాకదు. దీని వలన ఆ వైరస్ చనిపోతుంది” ఈ పోస్ట్ యొక్క ఆర్చివ్డ్ వర్షన్ ఇక్కడ చూడవచ్చు.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Photos of medicines from the US which will be only given to selected people by the Indian government in the name of COVID-19 treatment to eliminate them

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned photos circulated alongside an audio clip alleging that Modi had brought medicines from the US, to be given only to selected people in India as COVID-19 treatment and to cause their deaths. FACTLY’s review directly examined both the photos and the accompanying allegations. Its finding about the photos was that they were not from either India or the US: the images showed health equipment at Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Sabah, Malaysia, after a donation from the Chinese government. The review describes a specific reverse-image check: FACTLY says it ran the four photos through Google Reverse Image and found them in a Facebook post by Shafie Apdal, identified in the review as Sabah’s chief minister. That post included the same photos, along with others, and thanked China for donating health equipment to fight COVID-19 in the state. This provenance contradicts the claim that these images documented US medicines brought to India. The review also notes that Apdal’s post did not mention any medicine or vaccine. Its conclusion therefore rests on the images’ identified Malaysian setting and their connection to a Chinese donation, rather than on the audio clip alone. The evidence in the supplied excerpt establishes what the photos showed and why they were misrepresented; it does not independently establish the identity of the audio’s speaker or investigate the alleged medicines beyond the claims described in the review.

Fact CrescendoHealth & medicine

Claim: Steam therapy cant kill Covid 19

Publisher’s rating: False

The review investigated a video posted by the Next Gen TV Facebook page on April 2, 2020. The video said that steam inhalation could destroy coronavirus and explained how to inhale steam; its accompanying post described steam inhalation as a cure for COVID-19. The review notes that the video claimed its advice was based on research but did not identify any study. [S1]

Deutsche Presse-AgenturHealth & medicine

Pour beaucoup d’entre nous, les changements engendrés dans notre quotidien par le coronavirus sont effrayants. Ces temps-ci, les réseaux sociaux propagent une information, selon laquelle le médecin et pharmacien français, Nostradamus (1503 - 1566), aurait présagé la pandémie il y a des siècles déjà. D’après cette publication, Nostradamus aurait annoncé en 1555: «Il y aura une année jumelle (2020) d’où surgira une reine (Corona) qui viendra de l’Orient (Chine) et qui étendra une plaie (Virus) dans les ténèbres de la nuit, sur un pays au 7 collines (Italie) et transformera en poussière (Mort) le crépuscule des hommes, pour détruire et ruiner le monde. Ce sera la fin de l’économie mondial, tel que vous la connaissiez.»

Publisher’s rating: Un tel présage de la part de Nostradamus n’a jamais été transmis sous aucune forme et n’est pas non plus connu.

The post attributes to Nostradamus a supposed 1555 prediction that a “queen” from the East would spread a “plague” across a seven-hilled country, with the parenthetical clues identifying these as Corona, China, virus, and Italy. The review’s examination of the alleged wording found no support for the quotation in Nostradamus’s prophecies: it reports that “colline” (hill) appears in neither singular nor plural in the complete text. It also checked the post’s suggested clue “Orient”: that word occurs in the prophecies, but the review says it is never used in a pandemic context. The review adds two reasons to doubt that the text is authentic. It says Nostradamus generally did not date events in his verses, with rare exceptions, and reports that the photographed text in the Facebook post contains numerous grammatical errors. Together, the missing claimed “seven hills” wording, the lack of a pandemic context for “Orient,” and the post’s grammatical problems undermine the idea that this is a transmitted Nostradamus prophecy. The review does not identify an authentic Nostradamus passage matching the post’s wording.

台灣事實查核中心Health & medicine

世衛組織剛剛修改規則：冠狀病毒被證實氣溶膠傳播，在空氣中可存活8個小時。所以，要求每個人任何地方都得戴口罩...

Publisher’s rating: 部分錯誤

The review examined a circulating message alleging that WHO had changed its rules, confirmed that the coronavirus could spread through aerosols and survive in air for eight hours, and therefore required everyone to wear a mask everywhere. The fact-check center reviewed a WHO news release dated March 29 and consulted aerosol-science, respiratory-care, and biomedical experts about what it said and how to interpret the claims. The review reports that WHO recommended N95 respirators and other precautions for medical personnel in settings involving procedures that may generate aerosols, such as intubation, nebulized respiratory treatment, and suctioning. It says the release did not state that the virus could survive in air for eight hours or that everyone must wear a mask everywhere. The experts described this as a specific healthcare setting, and the review says WHO continued to identify droplet and person-to-person contact as the principal transmission routes at that time. On aerosol survival, the review cites research published March 9, 2020, in the New England Journal of Medicine. That study found infectious SARS-CoV-2 in experimentally generated aerosols for at least three hours, but the review stresses that the experiment used a nebulizer and that its conditions may not match aerosols produced by human coughing. It reports that the study observed only three hours and that the claimed eight-hour survival had no scientific study supporting it. The review concludes that aerosol transmission was possible under particular conditions, but the message overgeneralized WHO’s advice and made an unsupported eight-hour claim.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

దేశం లో లాక్ డౌన్ ని ఏ విధంగా అమలు చేయాలన్న దాని పై ప్రపంచ ఆరోగ్య సంస్థ (WHO) మార్గదర్శకాలు జారీ చేసింది. దాని ప్రకారం, ఇండియా లో 14 ఏప్రిల్ తర్వాత ఐదు రోజులు విరామం ఇచ్చి మళ్ళీ లాక్ డౌన్ ని విధిస్తారు

Publisher’s rating: FALSE