Fact Checking Covid-Denier Nonsense

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Oct 16, 2021.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's take a look at the latest nonsense being shoveled by anti-vax Covid-deniers. These people have a sickness when it comes to facts and truth.

    No hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin in Trump's COVID-19 vaccine | Fact check
    The claim: Donald Trump got a COVID-19 vaccine containing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin
    https://news.yahoo.com/no-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-trumps-covid-220917734.html

    A June 4 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a list of ingredients that includes hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin below a bold header that reads "President Trump's Vaccine."

    The post's caption reads, "Wake-up people! Trump is clean! Here was his healthy cocktail! B4 Pharma screwed it up! Trump didn't know they had deadly ingredients in Pharmas jab & had no say either what ingredients were in! But he always spoke of the healthy treatment & didn't mandate it."

    The post was liked nearly 100 times in four days. A similar post on Twitter was retweeted more than 1,200 times.

    Our rating: False
    Former President Donald Trump said he received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, which doesn't contain any of the ingredients listed in the post. Multiple health agencies say the drugs hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are not recommended to prevent or treat COVID-19.

    In 2021 interview, Trump said he received Pfizer vaccine
    Trump quietly received the COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021, shortly before he left the White House, as USA TODAY previously reported. At the time, Trump's aides declined to reveal what type of vaccine he received.

    However, in an interview with Yahoo Finance in October 2021, Trump said he received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.

    "I got the Pfizer and I would have been very happy with any of them," he said.

    A fact sheet on the Food and Drug Administration’s website lists the ingredients in Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. It doesn't list hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin or any other item named in the Instagram post.

    An overview of the COVID-19 vaccines on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website says they contain "no medicines or therapeutics, such as ivermectin or any other medications."

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    The FDA's website says ivermectin, a medication used to treat some parasitic diseases, should not be used to treat or prevent COVID-19. The website also states the drug hasn't been shown to be safe or effective for that purpose. It is typically administered in the form of a tablet, not a vaccine.

    The treatment guidelines published by the National Institutes of Health also recommend against using ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

    Similarly, the World Health Organization doesn't recommend using hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria, to prevent or treat COVID-19. Based on trials involving thousands of patients, the WHO found it "had little or no effect on preventing illness, hospitalization or death" and "did not reduce mortality."

    An article in The Lancet, a medical journal, describes a study involving more than 1,300 patients that, "like dozens of smaller trials published before," found hydroxychloroquine had no benefit in preventing COVID-19 from progressing in patients with initially mild symptoms.

    "Ultimately, hydroxychloroquine did not have clinical benefit for COVID-19," the article says.

    The Instagram user could not be reached for comment.

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    #551     Jun 21, 2023
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

     
    #552     Jun 26, 2023
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #553     Jun 26, 2023
  4. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Actually, the entire Trump family was secretly vaccinated but Trump himself was the only one to publicly speak / recommend Covid vaccination because it's from his (Trump/Pence administration) Operation Warp Speed.

    I'm curious how conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. plans to navigate around that in any Democrat debates as in whether he will self-censor himself to prevent looking like an idiot.

    wrbtrader
     
    #554     Jun 26, 2023
  5. exGOPer

    exGOPer


    These MAGAtards love to make shit up, zero shame even when the claims are bizarre.
     
    #555     Jun 26, 2023
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  6. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

     
    #556     Jul 11, 2023
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  7. ids

    ids

    Wow, just wow. Prosecute Fauchi and his co-conspirators.
     
    #557     Jul 11, 2023
  8. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Grandpa's ranting after getting dose of outrage porn on right-wing conspiratard sites.
     
    #558     Jul 11, 2023
  9. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

     
    #559     Jul 12, 2023
  10. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Remember when we were told this was "misinformation"?

     
    #560     Jul 13, 2023