Viral Posts Distort WHO Guidance on COVID-19 Tests
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Dubious websites and viral posts falsely claim that the World Health Organization changed COVID-19 testing protocols for political reasons following Joe Biden’s inauguration and admitted that false-positive cases had been inflating the case count. The WHO’s guidance merely reminded labs to follow instructions provided by each test’s manufacturer.
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A recent memo from the World Health Organization designed for lab professionals became a major focus of misinformation with unreliable websites and social media users claiming the agency had changed a testing protocol and admitted that COVID-19 cases have been wildly inflated.
DUBAI: When you get the COVID-19 vaccine, you will turn into a zombie. A microchipped zombie. These outrageous claims form part of a disinformation drive peddled and hyper-shared on social media. Such scare-mongering has gained traction, around the time the first COVID shots were approved in December.
The result: vaccine hesitancy, a deadly phenomenon and considered one of the top 10 global health threats, the WHO warned. Self-styled vaccine disinformation evangelists have a field day questioning not only the speed by which the shots had been developed, but also their efficacy and safety.
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Each year, vaccine hesitancy contributes up to 3 million deaths from diseases already preventable by vaccines, the WHO said.
Louisville Courier Journal
Not for the first time this week, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took his criticisms of newly inaugurated President Joe Biden to Fox News.
Speaking with conservative personality Sean Hannity Friday night, the Republican congressman repeated his claim that Biden s goal of increasing the national minimum wage to $15 would cause 4 million people to lose their jobs. And the people who lose their jobs first when you hike up the minimum wage are Black teenagers, Paul said. So, you know, why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers should be the question. Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all these jobs?
After calling them communists, SD Gov. Kristi Noem asks if new Georgia senators hold American values
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem called on the public to examine Georgia s two, newly elected Democratic U.S. senators to see if their values match American values. Nearly two weeks ago, Noem received blowback for incendiary remarks, referring derogatorily to Georgia s first Jewish and Black senators as communists. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem answers questions from reporters in a conference room in the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D., on Thursday, Jan. 21. (Christopher Vondracek / Forum News Service)
PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem did not back down from inflammatory remarks about Georgia s Democratic senators, suggesting during a news conference in Pierre, S.D., on Thursday, Jan. 21, that the public should examine the newly elected Georgia senators and their belief system.