VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on Duterte talking about Fabunan drug in speech NOT TRUE
He made no mention of it in his hour-long address.
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He made no mention of it in his hour-long address.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has admitted that there is a shortage of personal protective equipment for the country’s health care workers servicing those afflicted with COVID-19.
There’s no evidence that current medicine can prevent or cure the disease.
It was taken in May 2018, months before the disease first emerged.
A misleading article from 2018 with a headline saying consumption of coconut oil can eliminate “93%” of “colon bad cells” in two days has recently been resurrected and shared on social media. It also makes a number of inaccurate claims.
It’s an unsafe concoction.
It was given a name about 40 years ago. It wasn’t discovered in China.
Inhaling extremely hot steam has a risk of burn injury, WHO adds.
The FDA debunked the claim. Its chief also said the drug has no application for registration yet.
The government started mass testing on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) one month after President Rodrigo Duterte declared a state of public health emergency and later imposed a Luzon-wide lockdown to stop the rampaging virus that has afflicted 4,932 persons and claimed the lives of 315, including 21 doctors, as of 4 p.m. on April 13.