Here’s our most recent summary of some of the shared highs.
Verdict: A global shipment database of chemical materials created in 2020, but dating back to 2015, referred to its use for “Covid-19 kits”. The World Bank, one of the foreign organizations guilty of maintaining the list, says this because products existing in the past are now being used for Covid-19 testing. The online page has been modified and an explanation has been published.
The assertion on social media, persistent among conspiracy theorists, is that it is evidence that the pandemic planned it from the beginning and the World Bank aware of it, that is not true and we can clear up any doubts about what is going on.
The shared screenshot is original and includes advertising data under the title “Exports of COVID-19 verification kits across the country in 2017”. Other pages show the last few years with data. Therefore, you may notice why this may have created some confusion.
According to the World Bank, the page was created in April 2020 to make it easier to find all existing products in the past that are now used for Covid-19 testing.
All the chemicals indexed in it have been used for many years, however, the World Bank says they have been reclassified to facilitate the monitoring of items that are vital to combating coronavirus.
As of September 7, the name of the knowledge base was replaced by “medical control kits” and, by incomprehension, includes a disclaimer stating that “knowledge here suggests existing medical devices that are now classified through the World Customs Organization as essential to combating the Covid-19”.
Conspiracy allegations appear to have emerged on social media late last week and have since spread across platforms and languages.
Although the allegations made the impression on Twitter and Facebook almost simultaneously, they only gained ground after a British Facebook user posted a video highlighting the alleged difference in knowledge of the verification kit on September 5.
The database’s links and screenshots were spread more widely on Facebook and Twitter, and also made the impression on Reddit, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The statements were also translated into the languages, adding Dutch, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Hebrew.
Verdict: false. These gadgets are dangerous.
The vision of a user who is controlled by the temperature with a thermometer pointing to the forehead is not unusual at present.
These thermometers record a person’s temperature by measuring infrared radiation from the body’s surface.
A maximum temperature is an indication of a possible coronavirus infection.
A video posted on YouTube with 2 million perspectives falsely states that this procedure is dangerous. This is the case and there is an undeniable explanation why.
The thermometer records the infrared radiation of the frame (the surfaces of all elements emit this radiation), but nothing is drawn about the person.
The type presented in the video describes the considerations of an anonymous “Australian nurse” and, in particular, refers to possible damage to the pineal gland.
This is the deep part of the brain and controls a hormone called melatonin. Man calls it the “bridge to the kingdom of spirits. “
But there is no doubt that the pineal gland is broken or can be “targeted” through a thermometer.
“They simply capture infrared radiation. They don’t shoot anything,” says Stafford Lightman, a professor of medicine at the University of Bristol.
As for the claim that it is safer and more effective to measure the temperature of the wrist, Professor Lightman says that is the case.
He explains that his limbs lose blood and that the source of blood on the wrists, unlike the face, can be variable, so it is not a smart position to take the temperature.
Verdict: There is no clinical evidence for this claim.
Ineffective and untested Covid-19 remedies have been promoted online since the beginning of the pandemic and, in some cases, have even been promoted through prominent politicians.
However, this one is new to us. One of Peru’s regional governors warned that eating flame and alpaca meat could fight coronavirus.
According to a Peruvian radio station, the governor cited studies indicating that flames and alpacas bring antibodies that could potentially be modified to expand a Covid-19 treatment.
The BBC clinical team reported on these studies some time ago, however, these studies do not conclude that eating animal meat can help a user fight the virus, but scientists have discovered that flame antibodies can eventually be adapted to make a treatment for humans.
So far, the drugs that have been shown to save lives in clinical trials are dexamethasone and hydrocortisone.
Verdict: There is no clinical evidence of the use of this homeopathic drug as an opposing shield to Covid-19.
India’s Ministry of Alternative Medicine, Ayush, has encouraged the use of a homeopathic drug, arsenicum album-30, saying it can prevent others from contracting coronavirus.
However, there are no peer-reviewed clinical studies that support its use as a preventive remedy for Covid-19.
Recently, Indian news firm PTI reported that the western state of Gujarat had distributed the drug to more than a portion of the state’s population as preventive treatment.
A senior state fitness official said he believed in “some efficacy” of the coronavirus drug, but admitted that “to identify this, we want more rigorous testing. “
There is no evidence that the drug is effective, either in prevention or in the remedy of Covid-19.
Additional information through Olga Robinson, Alistair Coleman and Upasana Bhat.
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