In June 2020, as countries recovered from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum launched an initiative called the “Great Reset”: a series of policy concepts designed to make reaction efforts benefit everyone, especially those living in extreme poverty.
Since then, conspiracy theories have falsely called the Great Reset the strategic plan of global elites for the world.
A UK-based online page containing erroneous content about COVID-19 vaccines, The Expose, has published an article spreading more lies about the Great Reset. The July 24 article, shared on Facebook, links the big reset to the recent monkeypox outbreak and claims the virus is only spreading in spaces where Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been administered.
Its name reads: “‘Monkeypox’ circulates in countries where the Pfizer vaccine has been distributed and is being used to advance a wonderful technocratic reset. “
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The Facebook post with the article shared in an organization of 4500 members. Similar posts have been shared with the article on Facebook teams that have many members.
But the accusation is unfounded.
Infectious disease experts told USA TODAY that monkeypox is not related to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and monkeypox has irritated other people in countries where Pfizer’s vaccine has not been distributed. The claim also promotes another Great Reset conspiracy theory; USA TODAY and other media outlets have in the past denied unsubstantiated claims about the Great Reset.
USA TODAY reached out to The Expose and social media that shared the claim for comment.
There is no difference between the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and monkeypox infections.
As infectious disease specialists told USA TODAY, COVID-19 vaccines do not involve any live viruses and do not involve monkeypox virus DNA. Monkeypox cannot be a side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, and it cannot be through the vaccine.
According to the World Health Organization, monkeypox occurs through infection with the monkeypox virus belonging to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
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Pfizer has distributed its COVID-19 vaccine in 180 countries, and it wouldn’t be unexpected to see an overlap with monkeypox in those countries, Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia, told USA TODAY in an email. . .
At the same time, monkeypox has spread to countries where the Pfizer vaccine has been distributed. For example, India recorded 10 cases of monkeypox as of Aug. 25, but has the Pfizer vaccine legal, Jackson said. Similarly, Venezuela has noticed 3 cases of monkeypox virus as of September 13, according to the most recent CDC data. But neither country has gotten deliveries from Pfizer, like ed.
There is no evidence that ape pox has any connection to the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset proposals. Di Dai, a spokesman for the organization, told USA TODAY in an email that the two had nothing to do with each other.
The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset in 2020 to influence policymakers as they develop recovery responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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But since its introduction, it has been in the midst of conspiracy theories, as BBC News reported.
Experts told BBC News that the narratives involving the Great Reset are new and that “similar concepts about the rise of a totalitarian global government have been circulating since the 1960s under the umbrella term New World Order. “
USA TODAY has in the past denied false claims about the Great Reset, adding unfounded claims that Ukraine announced it was implementing the Great Reset via a mobile app and that there were calls for reform. web as a component of the Great Reset.
Based on our research, we compare FALSE the claim that ape pox only circulates in countries where the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is distributed and used to advance the Great Reset. Infectious disease specialists have stated that monkeypox is not similar to the Pfizer vaccine. In addition, monkeypox infections have been reported in countries where the Pfizer vaccine has not been distributed. The claim promotes the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory of the Great Reset.
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