Health
Friday 22 January 2021
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“It’s terrible the problem [in Manaus]. Now, we’ve done our part … the minister of health was there Monday and provided oxygen.”
Public reports assert that Brazil’s health ministry knew of the imminent breakdown of health care in Manaus and didn’t do enough to stop it. -
"The Russian vaccine – it is now completely obvious … is the best one worldwide. [N]o other preparations of a similar kind demonstrate such a level of protection and such a degree of safety.”
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“The experts openly said: These are not different options, but successive steps to conquer the world and take it under the unified strict control of corporations, elected by no one and not responsible to anyone.”
Russian commentator Anatoly Wasserman resurrects a fantastical theory that the U.S. planned the coronavirus pandemic years ago. -
"I don't believe illegal casinos are operating in Bangkok, but if the doctor knows about it, he can inform the authorities."
Health authorities say illicit gambling dens are a primary source of COVID-19 spread in Thailand. -
"In fact, during Wuhan's lockdown, many journalists were there reporting the real situation ... some of the articles and photos got the situation wrong, sparking fierce controversy. But apart from the online squabble, none led to serious consequences."
Citizen journalists were intimidated, detained, isolated, discredited, some disappeared for reporting on the Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak. -
“[D]istortions, lack of references to the source, and outright manipulations constitute the [European Union] ‘database of Russian disinformation’.”
A pro-Kremlin analyst called an EU media outlet tracking Russian-state disinformation on COVID-19 the “ministry of untruth.” But there is more than enough evidence showing Moscow’s hand in spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories. -
“Chinese CoronaVac vaccine shows 97 percent efficacy”
The 97 percent number refers to the rate of people who developed antibodies after vaccination, not whether they were free of infection. -
“He says to everyone we all have to take it very seriously, that is what he said, we must take the epidemic seriously, and it refers to what we say here every night.”
López-Gatell’s comment misrepresents a dire assessment of Mexico’s coronavirus risk from World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. -
"#COVID19 did not start in central China’s Wuhan but may come through imported frozen food and packaging: experts”
Chinese state media has claimed Wuhan is not the origin of Covid-19, even as the WHO investigation into the origin of the global pandemic is just getting started. -
“We have all grounds to believe that everything which had happened to him (Navalny) from the point of view of warfare agent’s entering into his body could have happened in Germany or on the plane where he was loaded and sent to the Charite clinic.”
Navalny became ill while traveling on an airplane over Siberia. He was first treated in Russia, and authorities there initially delayed his release to a German hospital. -
“Why should our people participate in the experiments of some foreign uncles, if there are those who have already conducted two phases of testing, have confirmed the possibility of using the vaccine and are ready to provide it?”
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has not finished final testing, scant data about prior tests has been shared, and there are doubts about whether it works. -
“In Venezuela, we have given an example of the treatment of the coronavirus for all citizens.”
Widespread fragility characterizes Venezuela’s coronavirus response, intensified by chronic economic, political and humanitarian crises under Maduro.