Health
Thursday 26 May 2022
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Shanghai Municipal Health Commission
Shanghai's top health authority
“On April 21, there were 11 new local cases of death.”
Read more...China strictly limits what’s counted as a COVID-19 “death.” True fatalities in the ongoing Shanghai outbreak are likely far higher. -
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Tao Wen
WeChat blogger
“Research confirms novel coronavirus was manufactured by an American company.”
Read more...SARS-CoV-2 was not manufactured by Moderna, though the jury is still out on the origins of the virus. -
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Russian Ministry of Defense
"With a high degree of probability, we can say that one of the tasks of the United States and its allies is the creation of bioagents that can selectively affect various ethnic groups of the population."
Read more...There are no biological weapons production facilities in Ukraine, U.S.-run or otherwise, and no “ethnic” bioagents. -
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Maxim Suchkov
Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations
“Unconfimred (sic) reports of #Russia/n hitting 13 bio-lab munitions throughout #Ukraine, some of them underground, so it took a few strikes to destroy them. The issue of foreign powers resarch (sic) bio labs in UKR is gaining traction in RUS media - watch this space”
Read more...Suchkov’s source is Russian media, which have a history of fabricated claims about foreign “biolabs” in Ukraine. -
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Repeated claim on social media
“A percentage of the rapid tests are already preset to test positive no matter what. … If you seriously think these tests can detect Omicron your [sic] delusional.”
Read more...Rapid coronavirus tests kits aren’t 100 percent accurate, but the results are not “preset.” -
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RT
Russian state media outlet
“New Zealand’s prime minister has given some Kiwis an early Christmas present as she announced that newly relaxed Covid-19 restrictions, based on a ‘traffic light system,’ allow for orgies of up to 25 people.”
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Rodong
North Korean state-owned news agency
“A new COVID-19 variant virus which is five times stronger than delta virus appeared in the world, arousing serious concerns.”
Read more...The jury is out on omicron, with authorities still studying its virulence and transmissibility. Anecdotal evidence suggests it causes milder illness. -
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Narratives trending on social media
The omicron variant is a hoax.
Read more...The highly mutated coronavirus variant is authenticated by scientists worldwide and has been confirmed in more than 20 countries. Omicron is not fake. -
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The Dr. Rath Health Foundation
“[T]the recent exponential increase in COVID-19 cases in Gibraltar demonstrates yet again that conventional health approaches cannot provide the solution to ending the pandemic.”
Read more...Gibraltar’s effective vaccination program is being misrepresented and distorted as the island moves to keep COVID-19 in check. -
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Kim Iversen
U.S. social media journalist
"I can't believe that after fully vaccinated travelers have been found to be the global spreaders of the omicron variant, we're STILL talking about forcing people into being vaccinated."
Read more...The World Health Organization says there’s not enough data on omicron and that vaccination is still the best defense against COVID-19. -
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Jo Nova
“Ivermectin Cuts Indonesia Covid By 98%, Aussie Cases UP 500% With Lock-N-Vax”
Read more...Article provides no evidence linking ivermectin to Indonesia’s drop in COVID-19 cases. -
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Catherine Smallwood
WHO senior emergencies officer
“From the scientific point of view, it's unlikely that the virus is not circulating in Turkmenistan.”
Read more...Independent reports dispute Turkmenistan’s official statistics. The country reported zero cases to the World Health Organization while allegedly keeping a secret count.
