VERA Files
The DOH affirmed there is no clear distinction in the symptom profiles of an earlier coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection from other virus variants and influenza.
VERA Files fact-checked each claim made in the erroneous Jan 3 post.
His group has also claimed that the pandemic is not real and alleged the vaccine is killing people
A former special adviser to the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 shared a false graphic that lists different symptoms supposedly from an infection with the Omicron virus variant. It surfaced as the country grappled with a post-holiday surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.
This post is fake. Don’t believe it.
The government has not placed any part of the country under such a strict status recently.
As the Philippines ramped up coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in 2021, VERA Files fact-checked more than double of online disinformation about the vaccines, targeting safety and side effects.
The data is insufficient to establish a causal link between the vaccine and the reported adverse reactions.
According to the Department of Health and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), none of the approved vaccines against COVID-19 contains the live virus that causes the illness. Hence the vaccines cannot cause COVID-19 positive cases.
In the most updated version of the term, Merriam-Webster.com enumerated the different types of materials used for vaccines such as a cell’s spike protein or messenger ribonucleic acid, a weakened version of a bacterium or virus, or components such as proteins or toxins created by a bacterium or virus. There was no mention of graphene oxide.