VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video citing reports on adverse effects of COVID-19 shots NEEDS CONTEXT
A reverse image search showed that the FB page WE ARE AS ONE compiled two unrelated video reports published separately last April:
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Filipina vlogger shares report that NEEDS CONTEXT
Graphene oxide is not an ingredient in Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to a fact sheet published by the pharmaceutical company. Kit Longley, senior manager of science media relations at Pfizer-BioNTech, confirmed this in a statement to the Associated Press.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Netizens share BASELESS post about 50 ‘infected’ workers
Some users were also misled into thinking that the photo collage in the post showed a Shopee warehouse in the Philippines. The photos were all taken in Malaysia.
In Myanmar, COVID-19 disaster adds to a confluence of crises
YANGON/BANGKOK - “Anyone in need of oxygen, go soon,” urged a post by a Facebook page called ‘Help You Breathe’, whose followers near 90,000 as Myanmar’s COVID-19 pandemic spins out of control. “Urgent need for regulator, where can I buy or rent,” one user asked. “Where can I refill oxygen in Yangon now?” said another.
The MMC model: Solutions for a post-COVID future
Dr. Saturnino Javier, medical director of the Makati Medical Center (MMC), is not Nostradamus. He cannot predict when the pandemic will taper off and finally end. But this he is sure of: “We need to move forward.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video FALSELY claims COVID-19 vaccine, testing implant ‘barcode for life’
It also carried other claims similar to conspiracy theories already debunked by VERA Files Fact Check.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines that use mRNA are NOT ‘toxic’ to organs
There is also “no scientific evidence available that suggests that spike proteins created in our bodies from the COVID-19 vaccines are toxic or damaging [to] our organs,” according to a team of health experts from global technology nonprofit Meedan.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT HAVE ‘magneto proteins’ that make people ‘magnetic’
None of the ingredients in any of the vaccines are sources of electric and magnetic fields (EMFs), according to a team of health experts from global technology nonprofit Meedan.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT cause ‘stronger infection’, variants
“We haven't observed anyone that has been given the vaccine and yet produced more symptoms,” said Rontgene Solante, infectious disease specialist and a member of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Vaccine Expert Panel in a May 21 interview.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Anti-vax doctor, ex-education Usec peddle falsehoods about COVID-19 jabs
“The vaccine does not inject the virus itself,” said Rontgene Solante, infectious disease specialist and member of the Vaccine Expert Panel of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in a May 21 interview.
