In a live video uploaded on July 10, vlogger and social media personality Sass Rogando Sasot inaccurately claimed that the Angat Buhay NGO, founded by former vice president Leni Robredo, took sole credit for relief efforts following a landslide in Ifugao.
The World Health Organization, in a 1996 study on dengue, said, “The exact date when dengue fever was first recognized in the world is still obscure.” Experts also note that the origin of the dengue virus is not yet clear because of its shared clinical symptoms with other mosquito-borne viral illnesses.
Several Facebook (FB) pages and groups, including Sen. Robin Padilla’s official account, passed off a photo showing former president Rodrigo Duterte relaxing outside his Davao City home, supposedly after stepping down from the presidency last June 30. It is misleading.
Based on the state of the nation address of then-president Manuel Roxas in January 1948, the Manila International Airport (MIA) already existed. That was 17 years before Marcos became president in 1965.
Overall, it is not accurate to compare the flu directly to COVID-19 because “[COVID-19] is in a crisis state with many complicating layers to infection and severity,” according to health experts from Meedan, a global technology nonprofit.
