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Tag: COVID19PH

  • COVID-19 concerns hound voters, volunteers in crowded polling precincts
    Categories News PHL Vote 2022

    COVID-19 concerns hound voters, volunteers in crowded polling precincts

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  May 09, 2022 11:01 AM

    The Commission on Elections (Comelec) assured that COVID-19 marshals and safety officers are deployed in polling precincts to make sure that minimum public health standards, such as physical distancing and wearing of masks, are followed.

    COVID-19, COVID19PH, Election 2022

  • VERA Files Health Comics launch
    Categories COVID-19 Watch Health Learning Corner News

    VERA Files Komiks handbook to address worsening health disinformation in PH

    By Bryan Manalang  |  Feb 25, 2022 12:28 PM

    Medical experts on Thursday said the Philippines has grown into a prime hub for health mis- and disinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

    COVID19PH, Meedan

  • 011122 FALSE COVID-19 vaccine dangerous_WEB.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines are NOT dangerous

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 13, 2022 2:06 PM

    While it is true that COVID-19 vaccines have risks of complications, “severe or life-threatening reactions are extremely rare” according to the Department of Health’s (DOH) Frequently Answered Questions page.

    COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID19PH, DOH

  • 010521 FALSE Alkaline foods eliminate virus_WEB copy.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: INCORRECT advice vs COVID-19 circulates on Facebook

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 11, 2022 2:10 PM

    VERA Files fact-checked each claim made in the erroneous Jan 3 post.

    alkaline covid-19 hoax, COVID-19, COVID19PH, Omicron variant

  • VFYE_ Vaxx disinfo thumbnail_draft-2.png
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Bakulaw, Bakulam, Bakuna: Ang mga anyo ng COVID-19 vaccine disinformation noong 2021

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol and Blanch Marie Ancla  |  Dec 17, 2021 12:51 PM

    Sinimulan ng administrasyong Duterte noong Pebrero ang pagpaplantsa ng mga deal para makakuha ng mga bakuna laban sa coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at mabakunahan ang 70 milyong Pilipino na nasa hustong gulang at maabot ang “herd immunity” sa katapusan ng taon.

    CoronaVirusFacts, COVID-19, COVID19PH, VACCINES

  • VFYE_ Vaxx disinfo thumbnail_draft-2.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Bakulaw, Bakulam, Bakuna: The forms that COVID-19 vaccine disinformation took in 2021

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol and Blanch Marie Ancla  |  Dec 17, 2021 12:35 PM

    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.

    CoronaVirusFacts, COVID19, COVID19PH, VACCINES

  • thumbnail_fs-breakthrough.jpg
    Categories COVID-19 Watch

    Apay nga daggiti nabakunaan nga tattao ket maimpeksyon da iti COVID-19

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 20, 2021 5:44 PM

    Gapu iti umad adu nga kaso iti pagilian kalpasan ti kagudua nga tawen iti 2021,adu dagiti agwarwaras nga damag iti social media nga ti coronavirus 2019 (COVID-2019) vaccines ket saan nga epektibo ken saan nga ‘safe.’

    COVID-19, Covid-19 disinformation, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID19PH, vaccine

  • 090621-needs-context-covid-natural-immunity_web-copy.png
    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that natural immunity from COVID-19 infection better than vaccine NEEDS CONTEXT

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 07, 2021 3:07 PM

    This claim made by Dante Maravillas could mislead because he omitted the limitations of the Israel-based study and did not properly define the term “natural immunity.”

    COVID-19, COVID19PH, Israel, Pfizer

  • 051721-false-magnets-and-vaccines.png
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT HAVE ‘magneto proteins’ that make people ‘magnetic’

    By VERA Files  |  Jun 03, 2021 11:55 PM

    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.

    COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID19PH, magneto proteins, magnets

  • 052621-false-vaccines-cause-variants.png
    Categories FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT cause ‘stronger infection’, variants

    By VERA Files  |  Jun 03, 2021 7:41 PM

    “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.

    COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 variants, COVID19PH

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