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Category: Health

Health Files
Our coverage of health issues and health misconceptions and disinformation, including fact checks, fact sheets, multimedia stories, and in-depth reports.

The health topics covered in this microsite are those that have gained the most prominence among Filipinos based on VERA Files’ coverage. These include cancer and other non-communicable diseases, maternal and reproductive health, food and nutrition, traditional medicine, vaccines, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, and mental health.

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Videos claiming Australian scientists say bananas can ‘prevent’ COVID-19 FALSE

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 18, 2020 2:53 AM

    A University of Queensland press release nor an ABC News Australia report used in the false post makes no mention of bananas.

    COVID-19, health misinformation

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    Categories FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Duterte says the new coronavirus is similar to HIV. Is that so?

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 28, 2020 9:01 PM

    Comparing the novel coronavirus (now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2) with other epidemics, such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), President Rodrigo Duterte said it will “die a natural death” even without vaccines.

    coronavirus, hiv

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts claiming 2019-nCoV only survives in ‘cold weather,’ salabat a cure NOT TRUE

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 18, 2020 2:35 AM

    This post is false. Don’t believe it.

    2019n-CoV, COVID-19, Health, health misinformation

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story on DOH monitoring people who came in contact with Cebu child ‘with nCoV’ MISLEADING

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 14, 2020 1:17 AM

    It lifted content from CNN Philippines and changed the headline.

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duque’s statement that ‘moist throat’ can prevent COVID-19 contradicts WHO advisory

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 13, 2020 7:23 PM

    Health Secretary Francisco Duque III inaccurately recommended that drinking lots of water and keeping one’s throat moist can be a protection against the new coronavirus.

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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    Categories FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story claiming nightly gadget use can cause eye cancer MISLEADING

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 12, 2020 6:13 AM

    This story is inaccurate.

    cancer, eye cancer, Health, health misinformation

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    Categories FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Novel coronavirus: Six things you need to know

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 10, 2020 5:59 PM

    As the Duterte government scrambles to cope with the fast-spreading novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV, the Department of Health (DOH) announced Feb. 5 the third confirmed patient in the country: a 60-year-old tourist from Wuhan City, China, the center of the virus outbreak.

    2019 nCoV, novel coronavirus

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Manila Vice Mayor Lacuna demos wrong way to wear surgical masks, calls it the ‘proper’ way

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 31, 2020 7:44 AM

    Manila Vice Mayor Sheilah “Honey” Lacuna-Pangan, a former physician at the Manila Health Office, is wrong in saying the correct way of wearing a surgical mask depends on whether one is sick or wants to be protected against germs or virus.

    COVID-19, Lacuna, surgical masks

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts MISLEAD with claims of ‘positive’ novel coronavirus case in Cebu

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 28, 2020 9:27 AM

    This is misleading.

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Online posts claiming novel coronavirus already in Cebu, Boracay NOT TRUE

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 27, 2020 8:17 PM

    There is no confirmed positive case of the 2019 nCoV in the Philippines

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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