Health
Saturday 17 April 2021
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Hassan Rouhani
Iran’s president
“U.S. blocked Iran’s access to 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccine.”
Read more...India halted coronavirus vaccine exports under the United Nations-backed COVAX program due to a domestic vaccine shortage and a surge of COVID-19 cases. The move had a global impact but did not target Iran. -
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Nikolai Patrushev
Secretary of the Russian Security Council
"And now we are actively helping others [with COVID-19], unlike the U.S., which is selfish."
Read more...While the Biden administration has been cautious about sharing vaccines, the U.S. has joined a global access effort and pledged $2 billion. -
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Enzo Pineda
Actor
“Proud of my dad for spearheading the approval of ivermectin as an affordable drug to fight covid-19. I have friends who recently recovered from the virus who can testify that the drug works and I’m also using it now …”
Read more...Clinical trials are needed to prove that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19. Until then, using the drug is risky. -
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Hua Chunying
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“There is still a big question mark over the lab at Fort Detrick."
Read more...China continues to tout evidence-free U.S.biolab conspiracy to deflect from serious questions about pandemic origins. -
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Hua Chunying
Spokesperson, Chinese Foreign Ministry
“China never asks others to receive Chinese vaccines.”
Read more...China made inoculation with a Chinese vaccine mandatory for foreigners seeking an entry visa, regardless of whether such a vaccine is available or approved in the applicants’ countries of residence. -
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Daniel Ortega
President of Nicaragua
“The vaccine will come for everyone.”
Read more...Observers say the Ortega government does not have enough vaccine and has not been open about how it will get more or pay for it. -
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RT (Russia Today)
Russian state-owned media outlet
“First, coronavirus came for your grandparents. And then, it came for ... Well, that was it really.”
Read more...Although COVID-19 is most lethal in ages 65 and older, young people still are at risk of death or long-term harm and can spread the virus to others. -
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Teodosie Petrescu
archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tomis, Romania
“There is no way he could have swallowed a 100 ml of water from the gesture I saw. He died from choking on mother’s milk. His parents overfed him.”
Read more...After being submerged in baptismal water three times, an infant boy turned blue. Paramedics could not save him; he died at a hospital with 100 ml of water in his lungs. -
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Eduardo Pazuello
Former health minister of Brazil
“Immediately we saw the need for a profound diagnosis of the routine actions and actions to fight the pandemic at that time. One of the first actions of that diagnosis was to show total transparency …”
Read more...Pazuello’s ministry faced criticism for secrecy, vaccine delays and promoting of unproven drugs to treat COVID-19. -
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Liang Wannian
Expert with China’s Health Commission
“The COVID-19 virus is … likely to be introduced through direct transmission or cold-chain food.”
Read more...Beijing continues to amplify COVID-19 origins narratives that point away from China -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
"Russia has never participated in such information campaigns against other vaccines and has no intention to do so.”
Source: TASS news agency, March 9, 2021Read more...It’s not just the State Department – plenty of other signs point to Russian state disinfo targeting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. -
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Viral global claim
“Infertility is one of the long-term side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.”
Source: Social MediaRead more...Claims that COVID-19 vaccines result in sterilization are baseless: Scientists and health professionals find no link between the vaccines and fertility.
