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Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11 or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex (part one)

Posted on January 21, 2022 by mekorganic

Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11 or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex

by Kees van der Pijl
March 2019

On 3 November 2018, in reply to a Twitter message summing up a series of crimes
ascribed to ‘Saudis’, beginning with their alleged responsibility for bringing down the
Twin Towers, I posted, ‘Not Saudis, Israelis brought down the Twin Towers with help
from Zionists in US Govt’.

This was picked up by self-professed Jewish and pro-Israel organizations denouncing it as ‘anti-Semitic’. The accusation was accompanied by the identical demand of practically all complainants to strip me of my status as professor emeritus of the University of Sussex. The comments were duly reported in the Daily Mail, the Independent, and Russian Sputnik, and possibly others. No mention was
made of the many supporting reactions, often accompanied by new documentary evidence and by the important enjoinder that the university should investigate, if anything, the claim being made, not the person making it.

Of course there is no denying that anti-Semites are roaming social media too, making it even more unattractive to investigate in depth any issue that involves the state of Israel and the Zionist networks supporting it. The anti-Semitism taboo on investigating the crimes of the Israeli state and in particular, its role in 9/11 and the War on Terror is in fact reinforced by these ‘fellow-travellers’. Yet however
unpleasant their company, the global catastrophe unfolding before our eyes makes it mandatory to investigate its causes and driving forces. 18 years of widening war, around six million dead, (1)
and more and more countries thrown into chaos, should be enough to raise the question,

Who was/is behind all this, beginning with the 9/11 attacks themselves? And who are more entitled than academics to provide an answer? However, universities in Great Britain are no exception to the general trend of corruption that is turning the majority of academics into ‘embedded’ intellectuals, who
like their colleagues in the media, travel with the troops on regime change expeditions (1) and provide intelligence and propaganda. (2)

Staff members are disciplined by precarity, reductions in pay and conditions, ‘peer review’, and dependence on funding, but university managements are kept in line by rewards. As one university newspaper reported during the February 2018 lecturers’ strike over new pension cuts, Vice-Chancellors’ salaries were increasing. It noted that ‘stand out figures …included Sussex’s VC who has a total salary over half a million pounds. (3)

When I was appointed at the University of Sussex in 2000 I was complimented by many with having landed in an institution famous for the space it offered to heterodox scholars. In the appointment procedure I expressed my criticism at the illegal NATO intervention in Yugoslavia then underway in the strongest terms and there was no objection to that, on the contrary. My first research publication at Sussex was a piece placing this intervention in historical perspective. (4)

When I retired, on the other hand, a top NATO official, Jamie Shea, spokesman of the alliance at the time of the Kosovo intervention and meanwhile deputy assistant Secretary-General, had been appointed
visiting lecturer. Following controversy among staff and students, his title was merely changed to ‘visiting practitioner’ (Shea later became ‘External Advisor, Post-graduate curriculum development’, at Sussex).

The growing role of the Israel lobby is even more pronounced. In February 2012, a few months before I retired, an Israel chair was instituted at Sussex (and at a number of other UK universities). Named, in this case, after Yossi Harel, the captain of the ship bringing Jewish settlers to Palestine in 1947 and financed by a group of Israel supporters in the UK, this chair was contested as well. Thus, one informed comment on the Sussex website considered it ‘highly inappropriate and unethical to create this subject at Sussex which will undoubtedly be taught in an indoctrinating and biased fashion. Most of the donors, including Ronald Cohen, Gerald Ronson, Lord Weidenfeld and Leonard Blavatnik all have pro-Israel ties, and a few of them sit on Zionist thinktank boards. How can an impartial study of this area be conducted, which takes into account the plight of the Palestinian people, when all the funding comes
from Zionists?’

More followed. On 13 March 2019, the Weidenfeld Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex was inaugurated at the German embassy in London. Launched in memory of the late Lord Weidenfeld, ‘a long-term supporter of the University of Sussex’s renowned work in German-Jewish studies and founding supporter of its more recently established Chair in Modern Israel studies’, the ViceChancellor, Adam Tickell, noted that ‘enlightening the current and the next generation to the dangers of ignoring the lessons of the past’ (in matters of anti-Semitism) was again urgent. (5)

Since it is hard to imagine socio-economic and political conditions in the contemporary West that would endanger people for just being labelled Jewish (like those existing in central and eastern Europe in the 1930s), today the accusation of anti-Semitism has largely become a way of discrediting anti-Zionism and criticism of the current Israeli regime. That is certainly how the Israeli government sees it. Since
2007, a ‘Hasbara’ forum reporting directly to the Israeli prime minister is entrusted with propagating the ‘positive side’ of the country’s policies, which in many cases have descended into outright criminality, notably in the occupied territories and towards neighbouring states. One specific task of the Hasbara forum (the term means ’enlightenment’) is to denounce university professors and lecturers criticising Israel as anti-Semites. (6)

In the period between 5 February 2019, when I was notified of the procedure against me (which then had been underway for more than two months without notification) and March the first, when I travelled to Sussex to defend myself against this accusation, I further studied the subject, only to find again that the statement I made is a statement of fact. There is no way that my right to speak out on this matter
can be suspended. For the average university management team today, this is an entirely different matter. Unless they came in on other qualifications, they have exchanged their role as scholars for the trajectory that if all goes well, ends with a position as Vice-Chancellor and the remuneration that comes with it. Their concern is not academic freedom, but funding, and at Sussex, the Israel chair and now also the Weidenfeld Institute as a result rule out having anyone criticizing Israel, even when retired, associated with the University.

On 12 March I received a letter listing the following sanctions:

… You are asked to make a public apology on social media, acknowledging the hurt that your actions have caused and distancing yourself formally from anti-Semitism in any form. The wording of this apology must be agreed with the University prior to publication, and may be used by the University for its own purposes.

It was noted that the tweet remains in the public domain and continues to cause offence to some people and bring the University into disrepute; consequently, you are asked to remove the tweet made on 3 November 2018.

You are reminded of the required standards of behaviour for academic title holders, including Emeritus Professors, and advised that should you not comply… by 29 March 2019 then the matter will be referred back to consider whether further action should be taken… In the event of failure to comply, the on-going presence of the tweet in the public domain and your failure to comply with the decision of the Committee could form the basis of a fresh complaint against you, with all possible sanctions being available to the Committee (including removal of the right to use the title of Emeritus Professor).

You are reminded that even in the event that [the measures listed] are complied with in line with the required timescale, this will not prevent the Committee investigating any future complaints about your conduct in line with the Code.

On 14 March, one day after the inauguration of the Weidenfeld Insitute, I resigned
from my emeritus status in protest, with the following letter to the Vice-Chancellor.

Dear Professor Tickell

I have received the letter dated 12 March 2019 in which I am instructed to
make a public apology for the grief I have caused by my Twitter reply on 3
November 2018 that ‘Israelis blew up the Twin Towers with help from Zionists in
US govt’, retract it, and remove the message itself.

It is also announced in the letter that henceforth I will be monitored in
case new complaints might arise. I can only conclude that neither my written
representation dated 14 February 2019, nor the extensive oral representation I
made in the presence of my wife on 1 March, to what I take was the Senior Management
Group, have made any impact in the judgement of what I now understand was/is
the [Academic Promotion, Advancement and Titles Committee].

As I have tried to make clear in the two representations, the University has
conducted a procedure of which I was only informed after almost three months,
in which various officers of the University were involved and a vote was taken
among the members of the Department. Not unexpectedly after that vote, news of
the procedure against me was making the rounds well beyond Sussex.

The vote was taken in December without a regulation being available, and the
regulation on which the decision of the committee is now based, was written
after the fact and applied retrospectively. I will not mention again that for
seven years now I have been active in the fight against the Far Right and the
racism on which it thrives, and the insult that the accusation of anti-Semitism
means for me personally.

I conceded in the oral representation that my comment may have been shocking
for those who
believe that ‘9/11’ was the work of Osama bin Laden and 19 Arab hijackers. I
also made clear that had the University asked me right away to clarify I would
have done that without further delay.

However, as I have studied the matter closely and in context, on the basis
of an extensive list of
sources, I cannot retract it. As a scholar I must stand by the facts I discover
in the course of my work. Never in my
time as a researcher in Amsterdam or Sussex have I been forced to change any conclusions
of scholarly work, and I will not now accept any restrictions on my academic
freedom either.

Since in the APATC letter, there is no further mention of the University
values listed in the
December 2018 Code of Practice, such as 10 (e), promising support for those
having the courage to change and be bold, and 14, the right to present
‘unpopular points of view’, I must conclude that from now on, should I retain
the emeritus title, I would not be free to conduct my research in
freedom, as article 14 claims to guarantee.

Therefore I resign from my emeritus status. I do so in protest over the
treatment by a University that I have always felt a deep loyalty to, but which
in this case has brought me into disrepute by a serious accusation which I
reject as unfounded but against which it is difficult if not impossible to
defend oneself nevertheless.

As to the appeals procedure, the two solicitors who are advising me on this
issue have come to the conclusion that if these are the standards the
University adheres to, there is no point in appealing. Therefore I will not
appeal, other than by defending my reputation publicly. (details about
acknowledgement and confidentiality)

With this letter I gave up the emeritus status and said goodbye, this time definitively,
to a University where I spent some of my best years.

Of course, it was not necessarily very smart to post as a one-liner on
Twitter a statement that was bound to be controversial and reference it to a
web encyclopedia that collates all that exists on a given topic, ripe and
green. However, the key question is not one of form but whether Israelis blew up the Twin
Towers or not. This I turn to next.

(1) Calculated by mortality rates, see Nicolas J.S. Davies, ‘Die Blutspur der US-geführten Kriege seit
9/11: Afghanistan, Jemen, Libyen, Irak, Pakistan, Somalia, Syrien’, in Ulrich Mies, ed. Der tiefe Staat
schlägt zu. Wie die westliche Welt Krisen erzeugt und Kriege vorbereitet. Vienna: ProMedia, 2019.

(2) I have developed this at length in my Discipline of Western Supremacy, vol. III of Modes of
Foreign Relations and Political Economy. London: Pluto Press 2014.

(3) ‘New figures show one Vice-Chancellor is earning £800k’, The Cardiff Tab, 22 February 2018.
https://thetab.com/uk/cardiff/2018/02/22/new-figures-show-one-vice-chancellor-is-earning-800k-seewhere-yours-ranks-33685 (last accessed 25 March 2019). See also The Guardian and The Telegraph, both of 12 February 2019, for further details. The Guardian also notes in another report that ‘nearly 25% of British universities [were] in deficit last year’.

(4) ‘From Gorbachev to Kosovo. Atlantic rivalries and the re-incorporation of Eastern Europe’ Review
of International Political Economy, 8 (2) 2001, 275-310.

(5) ‘Latest staff news: Sussex Weidenfeld Institute for Jewish Studies launches at London event’.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=48112 (last accessed 25 March 2019).

(6) Annette Groth, ‘Der Antisemitismusvorwurf als Disciplinierunginstrument und Diskurstotschläger’,
in Mies, Der tiefe Staat schlägt zu, pp. 97-8.

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2022-01-20 The atomic scientists’ Doomsday Clock is now 75—and threats to civilization still abound

Posted on January 21, 2022 by mekorganic

The atomic scientists’ Doomsday Clock is now 75—and threats to civilization still abound

Regardless of what your watch tells you, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. That’s the interval on the symbolic Doomsday Clock between the present moment and “planetary catastrophe.” The alternative rock band R.E.M. put it another way: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.”

In 1947, a group of scientists who had worked on the first nuclear weapons dreamed up the Doomsday Clock as a metaphor warning just how close humanity was to destroying itself. The iconic clock has been the symbol of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ever since, and on its 75th anniversary the group’s experts say we’re closer than ever to that dreadful wakeup call.

The clock is reset every January, and not even at the height of the Cold War, when Americans were digging fallout shelters and kids were being told to “duck and cover” under their school desks in case of atomic attack, were the clock’s hands this far into the final countdown.

That’s a pretty grim way to celebrate your 75th birthday, but as Bulletin editor John Mecklin observes, the ingredients for a possible doomsday scenario are more numerous than ever. When the clock was first depicted on the June 1947 issue—set at seven minutes to midnight—the editors were concerned solely with the likelihood that atomic bombs would soon rain down on the world’s capitals. Now, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board considers more than just the nuclear threat when deciding where to set the clock’s hands each year.

“Climate change, biological threats, artificial intelligence—there are lots of emerging issues that could threaten the planet,” says Mecklin. In recent years, the committee has even added the rapid spread of disinformation to its growing list of existential threats to humanity.

The early atomic scientists “knew that nuclear weapons were the first human creation that could literally end civilization,” Mecklin says. “But they also realized there would be others.”

Powerful wake-up call

In their unnervingly entertaining new book, The Doomsday Clock at 75, Robert K. Elder and J.C. Gabel trace the history of the clock, which they argue is “the most powerful piece of informational design of the 20th century.”

The clock came about simply because the association’s editors—most of whom had been scientists working on the Manhattan nuclear project during World War II—wanted a striking cover for the first issue of the new magazine they were launching.

“The editors were afraid that the nuclear weapons they had helped create were not fully understood by either politicians or the public,” says Mecklin. “They wanted people to understand that these weapons could literally end civilization—and even, perhaps, the human species.”

Luckily, the Chicago-based scientists in charge didn’t have to look far for a graphic designer. Martyl Langsdorf, a celebrated landscape artist, was married to physicist Alexander Langsdorf, who worked on the Manhattan Project.

“Being the so-called artist-in-residence for the scientific community, they asked me to do the first cover for the magazine-to-be,” Langsdorf, who painted under the name “Martyl,” said in an interview before her death in 2013.

Sketching on the back cover of a bound copy of Beethoven’s sonatas, Langsdorf hashed out the concept of a clock with its minute hand sweeping toward midnight—symbolizing, as she said, “the urgency and the time of essence.”

Langsdorf’s design started as an entire clock face, but she soon stripped it down to the last 15 minutes of the hour. It apparently never occurred to Langsdorf that the editors might someday want to pull that minute hand far below the 45-minute mark. No matter: World events have only once raised that happy dilemma. In 1991, after the U.S. and Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1) and the Soviet Union dissolved, the clock briefly dipped to 17 minutes before midnight.

Catchy as the title is, the clock didn’t get its “doomsday” moniker until relatively recently. For decades it was known simply as the Atomic Clock. The first known references to the Doomsday Clock didn’t appear in newspapers until 1968, and the Bulletin formally adopted the name in 1972.

Critics of the Bulletin and its scary clock have dismissed it as a political stunt, or even counterproductive messaging that is unhelpful to the public and policymakers. If everything’s a crisis, then nothing’s a crisis.

Some, like science writer Charles Mann, aren’t fans of doomsday scenarios in general. “In the history of the human species, has any human heart ever been profoundly stirred by a graph?” he asked in a 2014 article about environmental doomsayers.

Mecklin says that the Doomsday Clock was always meant to be an alarm—and from a group of scientists who had a clear agenda against nuclear weapons. Co-founder Goldsmith was one of 70 scientists who had written a joint letter to President Harry S. Truman urging him not to use the atomic bomb against Japan. (They were too late: The letter didn’t reach Truman until after Hiroshima.)

Among the first national publications to go all-digital, the Bulletin stopped printing copies of the magazine in 2008. Still, the iconic clock appears on each digital issue and at the top of the Atomic Scientists’ web page.

Drumbeat of crises

As I scanned vintage issues of the Bulletin, each headline bristled with reminders of my 1960s childhood, spent under the shadow of a mushroom cloud: “Nuclear Blast Effects” (1961). “The Bomb in China” (1964). “The Politics of Bedlam” (1963). I vividly recall scrutinizing a map, printed on the front page of our suburban New Jersey newspaper, depicting concentric circles of destruction from a theoretical atomic bomb dropped on the Empire State Building (and sighing with relief to note that the outermost circle passed through not my town, but the town next door).

For many of us, that ‘60s dread of falling nukes has long since been diluted by a drumbeat of subsequent crises. It’s almost as if we’re becoming comfortable skating around the fringes of Armageddon.

Mecklin understands.

“No one wants to carry around, every day, all the time, the idea of a nuclear threat,” he says. “When you stop to think about all the false warnings that have almost resulted in nuclear war, when you think about all the times sheer luck has saved humanity, that’s scary.”

Resetting the Doomsday Clock each January, he says, gives the world at large permission to contemplate the nuclear threat that hums, like a transformer behind an electric chair, with ominous persistence. “If there’s nuclear war, then any other issues you happen to have won’t matter.”

And so, Mecklin and his colleagues stubbornly play the part of the Biblical bad-news prophet Hosea, preaching a warning of doom to a distracted, if not disinterested, people.

So, all together now: “Happy birthday to youuuuu….” And let’s hope it’s only the candles that get blown out.

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Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – January 11-15, 2022

Posted on January 19, 2022 by mekorganic

These are excerpts of January 2022 articles. For a quick sense of information and faster summary just read the red marked texted.

My primary source is the extremely well researched RFK jr.’s “Children Health Defense” organization. The CHD is suffering some severe censorship on social media because they are exposing government/corporate media inconsistencies, distortions and censored facts about the Covid pandemic!

2022-01-11 Autopsy Confirms 26-Year-Old’s Death From Myocarditis Directly Caused by Pfizer COVID Vaccine A 26-year-old South Dakota man who died Nov. 12, 2021, of myocarditis — four days after his booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine — had no idea he was experiencing a rare and supposedly “mild” heart problem after the shot. Joseph Keating’s only warning signs were fatigue, muscle soreness and an increased heart rate, family members said.

In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Joseph’s father, mother and sister said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not investigated Joseph’s death. The CDC also did not contact the pathologist who performed the autopsy or request the documents which confirmed Joseph’s death was caused by the Pfizer vaccine. According to the autopsy report and certificate of death, Joseph died from severe heart damage from “myocarditis in the left ventricle due to the recent Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccine.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joseph-keating-autopsy-death-myocarditis-pfizer-covid-vaccine.

2022-01-11 FDA Could Authorize Novavax COVID Vaccine by February, But Is It ‘Safe and Effective?’ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration could authorize the Novavax vaccine by February. Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, Novavax relies on more conventional vaccine technology shown in clinical trials to have fewer side effects, but safety of spike protein still in question. Despite its late entry into the U.S. vaccine market, Novavax could be in high demand. That’s in part because the Novavax vaccine uses an alternative technology to the current mRNA and DNA vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-novavax-covid-vaccine-february/

The 9/11 Attack Government Conspiracy

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“We have some planes” National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on United States (9/11 Commission Report)

Posted on January 19, 2022 by mekorganic

“We have some planes” National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on United States (9/11 Commission Report)

Foot Notes

For simplicity, we have adopted the following citation conventions in these endnotes.

Dozens of government agencies and other entities provided the Commission with more than 2.5 million pages of documents and other materials, including more than 1,000 hours of audiotapes. In general, we cite documents and other materials by providing the agency or entity of origin, the type of document (e.g., memo, email, report, or record), the author and recipient, the title (in quotes) or a description of the subject, and the date. We use the following abbreviations for the agencies and entities that produced the bulk of these documents: AAL-American Airlines; CIA-Central Intelligence Agency; DCI-Director of Central Intelligence; DHS-Department of Homeland Security; DOD-Department of Defense; DOJ-Department of Justice; DOS-Department of State; DOT-Department of Transportation; EPA-Environmental Protection Agency; FAA-Federal Aviation Administration; FBI-Federal Bureau of Investigation; FDNY-Fire Department of New York; GAO-General Accounting Office; INS-Immigration and Naturalization Service; NEADS-Northeast Air Defense Sector; NSA-National Security Agency; NSC-National Security Council; NTSB-National Transportation Safety Board; NYPD-New York Police Department; OEM-Office of Emergency Management, City of New York; PANYNJ or Port Authority-Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; PAPD-Port Authority Police Department; SEC-Securities and Exchange Commission; Treasury-Department of Treasury; TSA-Transportation Security Administration; UAL-United Air Lines; USSS-United States Secret Service.

Interviews, meetings, briefings, and site visits conducted by Commissioners or by members of the Commission staff are cited, for example, as “George Tenet interview (Jan. 22, 2004).” Testimony by witnesses at one of the Commission’s 12 public hearings is cited as “Condoleezza Rice testimony, Apr. 8, 2004.”Written statements for the record provided by witnesses at one of our public hearings are cited as “Thomas Ridge prepared statement, May 19, 2004.”

At the request of intelligence community agencies (including the FBI), we use the first name and last initial, only the first name, or in a few instances an alias or title when referring to working-level employees in those agencies. At the request of several intelligence agencies, we cite most reports from the CIA and other intelligence agencies generically as “Intelligence report,” followed by a description of the subject and date. In a few instances in which we were given access to highly sensitive documents or information, we cite generically to documents or information provided to the Commission.

Our investigation built on the work of many others, including the Joint Inquiry of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, which we refer to as the “Joint Inquiry.” We cite as “Joint Inquiry report, Dec. 2002” the Report of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, S. Rep. No. 107-351,

H.R. Rep. No. 107-792, 107th Cong., 2d sess. (2002), indicating “classified version” where appropriate. Testimony presented during hearings conducted by the Joint Inquiry is cited as “Joint Inquiry testimony of George Tenet, Oct. 17, 2002,” indicating “closed hearing” where appropriate. We cite interviews conducted by the Joint Inquiry staff as “Joint Inquiry interview of Cofer Black,” with the date of the interview.

Another major source for our investigation were the thousands of interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation during its investigation of the 9/11 attacks, which it refers to as “Penttbom.” FBI agents write up their interviews on forms called 302s, which we cite as “FBI report of investigation, interview of John Smith, Oct. 4, 2001,” using the date of the interview. We cite interviews conducted by other agencies by agency name and date of the interview; for example, an interview conducted by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General is cited as “DOJ Inspector General interview of Mary Jones, July 9, 2002.”

1 “We Have Some Planes”

1. No physical, documentary, or analytical evidence provides a convincing explanation of why Atta and Omari drove to Portland, Maine, from Boston on the morning of September 10, only to return to Logan on Flight 5930 on the morning of September 11. However, Atta reacted negatively when informed in Portland that he would have to check in again in Boston. Michael Touhey interview (May 27, 2004).Whatever their reason, the Portland Jetport was the nearest airport to Boston with a 9/11 flight that would have arrived at Logan in time for the passengers to transfer to American Airlines Flight 11, which had a scheduled departure time of 7:45 A.M. See Tom Kinton interview (Nov. 6, 2003); Portland International Jetport site visit (Aug. 18, 2003).

Like the other two airports used by the 9/11 hijackers (Newark Liberty International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport), Boston’s Logan International Airport was a “Category X” airport: i.e., among the largest facilities liable to highest threat, and generally subject to greater security requirements. See FAA report, “Civil Aviation Security Reference Handbook,” May 1999, pp. 117-118.Though Logan was selected for two of the hijackings (as were both American and United Airlines), we found no evidence that the terrorists targeted particular airports or airlines. Nothing stands out about any of them with respect to the only security layer that was relevant to the actual hijackings: checkpoint screening. See FAA briefing materials, “Assessment and Testing Data for BOS, EWR, and IAD,” Oct. 24, 2001. Despite security problems at Logan (see, e.g., two local Fox 25 television investigative reports in February and April 2001, and an email in August 2001 from a former FAA special agent to the agency’s leadership regarding his concerns about lax security at the airport), no evidence suggests that such issues entered into the terrorists’ targeting: they simply booked heavily fueled east-to-west transcontinental flights of the large Boeing aircraft they trained to fly that were scheduled to take off at nearly the same time. See Matt Carroll, “Fighting Terror Sense of Alarm; Airlines Foiled Police Logan Probe,” Boston Globe, Oct. 17, 2001, p. B1.

2. CAPPS was an FAA-approved automated system run by the airlines that scored each passenger’s profile to identify those who might pose a threat to civil aviation. The system also chose passengers at random to receive additional security scrutiny. Ten out of the 19 hijackers (including 9 out of 10 on the two American Airlines flights) were identified via the CAPPS system. According to the procedures in place on 9/11, in addition to those flagged by the CAPPS algorithm, American’s ticket agents were to mark as “selectees” those passengers who did not provide correct responses to the required security questions, failed to show proper identification, or met other criteria. See FAA report, “Air Carrier Standard Security Program,” May 2001, pp. 75-76; FAA record of interview, Donna Thompson, Sept. 23, 2001; Chuck Severance interview (Apr. 15, 2004); Jim Dillon interview (Apr. 15, 2004); Diane Graney interview (Apr. 16, 2004). It appears that Atta was selected at random. See Al Hickson briefing (June 8, 2004).

3.The call was placed from a pay phone in Terminal C (between the screening checkpoint and United 175’s boarding gate). We presume Shehhi made the call, but we cannot be sure. Logan International Airport site visit (Aug. 15, 2003); see also FBI response to Commission briefing request no. 6, undated (topic 11).

4. Flight 11 pushed back from Gate 32 in Terminal B at 7:40. See AAL response to the Commission’s February 3, 2004, requests, Mar. 15, 2004.

5. See UAL letter, “Flight 175-11Sep01 Passenger ACI Check-in History,” July 11, 2002. Customer service representative Gail Jawahir recalled that her encounter with the Ghamdis occurred at “shortly before 7 A.M.,” and when shown photos of the hijackers, she indicated that Mohand al Shehri resembled one of the two she checked in (suggesting they were Banihammad and Shehri). However, she also recalled that the men had the same last name and had assigned seats on row 9 (i.e., the Ghamdis), and that account has been adopted here. In either case, she almost certainly was dealing with one set of the Flight 175 hijackers. See FBI reports of investigation, interviews of Gail Jawahir, Sept. 21, 2001; Sept. 28, 2001. Even had the hijackers been unable to understand and answer the two standard security questions, the only consequence would have been the screening of their carry-on and checked bags for explosives. See FAA report, “Air Carrier Standard Security Program,” May 2001, p. 76.

6. For Flight 11, two checkpoints provided access to the gate. The second was opened at 7:15 A.M. The FAA conducted many screener evaluations between September 11, 1999, and September 11, 2001.At the primary checkpoints, in aggregate, screeners met or exceeded the average for overall, physical search, and X-ray detection, while falling below the norm for metal detection. No FAA Special Assessments (by “red teams”) were done at Logan security checkpoints during the two years prior to September 11, 2001. See FAA briefing materials, “Assessment and Testing Data for BOS, EWR, and IAD,” Oct. 24, 2001.

7. See Air Transport Association/Regional Airlines Association (ATA/RAA) report, “Air Carriers Checkpoint Operations Guide,” Aug. 1999; FAA report, “Air Carrier Standard Security Program, “May 2001, appendix VI.

8. Mary Carol Turano interview (Mar. 11, 2004); FBI reports of investigation, interview of Nilda Cora, Oct. 4, 2001; interview of William Thomas, Sept. 14, 2001; interview of Jennifer Gore, Sept. 12, 2001; interview of Claudia Richey, Sept. 15, 2001; interview of Rosarito Rivera, Sept. 25, 2001.

9. See TSA report, “Selectee Status of September 11th Hijackers,” undated. For boarding and seating information, see AAL record, SABRE information on Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001.These boarding times from the American system are approximate only; for Flight 11, they indicated that some passengers “boarded” after the aircraft had pushed back from the gate. See AAL response to the Commission’s February 3, 2004, requests, Mar. 15, 2004.

10. See TSA report, “Selectee Status of September 11th Hijackers, “undated; see also UAL letter, “Flight 175- 11 Sep01 Passenger ACI Check-in History,” July 11, 2002.

11.The Hazmis checked in at 7:29; the airline has not yet been able to confirm the time of Hanjour’s check-in. However, it had to have taken place by 7:35, when he appears on the checkpoint videotape. See AAL record, SABRE information for Flight 77, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL response to the Commission’s February 3, 2004, requests, Mar. 15, 2004; Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority videotape, Dulles main terminal checkpoints, Sept. 11, 2001.

12. See TSA report, “Selectee Status of September 11th Hijackers, “undated; see also FAA report, “Selectee List AALA #77,” undated; FBI report of investigation, interview of Vaughn Allex, Sept. 12, 2001;Vaughn Allex interview (July 13, 2004).

13.The FAA conducted many screener evaluations at Dulles between September 11, 1999, and September 11, 2001.While the test results for physical search exceeded the national average, both the metal detector and X-ray results were below average. See FAA briefing materials, “Assessment and Testing Data for BOS, EWR, and IAD,” Oct. 24, 2001.

14. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority videotape, Dulles main terminal checkpoints, Sept. 11, 2001; see also Tim Jackson interview (Apr. 12, 2004).

15. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority videotape, Dulles main terminal checkpoints, Sept. 11, 2001; see also Tim Jackson interview (Apr. 12, 2004).

16. For investigation findings, see FAA report, “American Airlines Flight #77: Hijacking and Crash into the Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001,” undated. For screener evaluations, see Tim Jackson interview (Apr. 12, 2004).

17. See AAL record, SABRE information for Flight 77, Sept. 11, 2001;AAL response to the Commission’s February 3, 2004, requests, Mar. 15, 2004.

18. UAL record, Flight 93 EWR bag loading status, Sept. 11, 2001; UAL record, Flight 93 EWR ACI passenger history, Sept. 11, 2001; UAL record, Flight 93 EWR full bag history, Sept. 11, 2001;TSA report, “Selectee Status of September 11th Hijackers,” undated; FBI report, “The Final 24 Hours,” Dec. 8, 2003.

19.The FAA conducted many screener evaluations at Newark between September 11, 1999, and September 11, 2001. Detection rates for metal detection, physical searches, and X-rays all met or exceeded the national averages. See FAA briefing materials, “Assessment and Testing Data for BOS, EWR, and IAD,” Oct. 24, 2001; see also FAA report, “United Airlines Flight 93, September 11, 2001, Executive Report,” Jan. 30, 2002.

20. UAL record, Flight 93 EWR ACI passenger history, Sept. 11, 2001; see also FBI report, “The Final 24 Hours,” Dec. 8, 2003.

21.While Flights 11 and 77 were at or slightly above the average number of passengers for the respective flights that summer, Flights 175 and 93 were well below their averages. We found no evidence to indicate that the hijackers manipulated the passenger loads on the aircraft they hijacked. Financial records did not reveal the purchase of any tickets beyond those the hijackers used for themselves. See FBI response to Commission briefing request no. 6, undated (topic 8);AAL report, “Average Load Factor by Day-of-Week,” undated (for Flights 11 and 77 from June 11, 2001, to Sept. 9, 2001);AAL response to the Commission’s supplemental document requests, Jan. 20, 2004; UAL report, Flight 175 BOS-LAX Load Factors, undated (from June 1, 2001, to Sept. 11, 2001); UAL report, “Explanation of Load Factors,” undated.

22. See AAL response to the Commission’s February 3, 2004, requests, Mar. 15, 2004; AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001;AAL report, “Flight Attendant Jump Seat Locations During Takeoff And Flight Attendant Typical Cabin Positions During Start of Cabin Service,” undated; AAL report, “Passenger Name List, Flight 11/September 11,” undated.

23. Commission analysis of NTSB and FAA air traffic control and radar data. See AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001; NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 11,” Feb. 19, 2002; Bill Halleck and Peggy Houck interview (Jan. 8, 2004).The initial service assignments for flight attendants on American 11 would have placed Karen Martin and Bobbi Arestegui in first class; Sara Low and Jean Roger in business class; Dianne Snyder in the midcabin galley; Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney in coach; and Karen Nicosia in the aft galley. Jeffrey Collman would have been assigned to work in coach, but to assist in first class if needed. See AAL report, “Flight Attendant Jump Seat Locations During Takeoff And Flight Attendant Typical Cabin Positions During Start of Cabin Service,” undated; Bob Jordan briefing (Nov. 20, 2003).

24. NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-American Airlines Flight 11, Dec. 21, 2001; NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-United Airlines Flight 175, Dec. 21, 2001. Given that the cockpit crew of American 11 had been acknowledging all previous instructions from air traffic control that morning within a matter of seconds, and that when the first reporting of the hijacking was received a short time later (the 8:19 call from Betty Ong) a number of actions had already been taken by the hijackers, it is most likely that the hijacking occurred at 8:14 A.M.

25.An early draft of an executive summary prepared by FAA security staff for the agency’s leadership referred to an alleged report of a shooting aboard Flight 11.We believe this report was erroneous for a number of reasons- there is no evidence that the hijackers purchased firearms, use of a gun would be inconsistent with the otherwise common tactics employed by the hijackers, the alleged shooting victim was seated where witness accounts place the stabbing victim (9B), and, most important, neither Betty Ong nor Amy Sweeney, the only two people who communicated to the ground from aboard the aircraft, reported the presence of a gun or a shooting. Both reported knives and stabbings. AAL transcript, telephone call from Betty Ong to Nydia Gonzalez, Sept. 11, 2001;AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL transcript, telephone call from Nancy Wyatt to Ray Howland, Sept. 11, 2001; Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004).The General Accounting Office looked into the gun story and was unable to corroborate it. GAO report, summary of briefing re investigation, Aug. 30, 2002.

26. Craig Marquis interview (Nov. 19, 2003); Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004); Jim Dillon interview (Apr. 15, 2004). See also AAL transcript, telephone call from Betty Ong to Nydia Gonzalez, Sept. 11, 2001. At the time of the hijacking, American Airlines flight attendants all carried cockpit keys on their person. See Craig Marquis, Craig Parfitt, Joe Bertapelle, and Mike Mulcahy interview (Nov. 19, 2003).

27. AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; Obituary, “Daniel Lewin,” Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2001, p. B7.

28. AAL transcript, telephone call from Betty Ong to Nydia Gonzalez, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001. Regarding the claim of a bomb, see Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004).

29. Calls to American’s reservations office are routed to the first open line at one of several facilities, among them the center in Cary, N.C. See Nydia Gonzalez interview (Nov. 19, 2003). On standard emergency training, see FAA report, “Air Carrier Standard Security Program,” May 2001, pp. 139j-139o; Don Dillman briefing (Nov. 18, 2003); Bob Jordan briefing (Nov. 20, 2003).The call from Ong was received initially by Vanessa Minter and then taken over by Winston Sadler; realizing the urgency of the situation, he pushed an emergency button that simultaneously initiated a tape recording of the call and sent an alarm notifying Nydia Gonzalez, a supervisor, to pick up on the line. Gonzalez was paged to respond to the alarm and joined the call a short time later. Only the first four minutes of the phone call between Ong and the reservations center (Minter, Sadler, and Gonzalez) was recorded because of the time limit on the recently installed system. See Nydia Gonzalez interview (Nov. 19, 2003); Nydia Gonzalez testimony, Jan. 27, 2004.

30. AAL transcript, telephone call from Betty Ong to Nydia Gonzalez, Sept. 11, 2001.

31. See Nydia Gonzalez interview (Nov. 19, 2003); Craig Marquis interviews (Nov. 19, 2003; Apr. 26, 2004); AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL transcript, telephone call from Bill Halleck to BOS ATC, Sept. 11, 2001.The Air Carrier Standard Security Program required airlines to immediately notify the FAA and FBI upon receiving information that an act or suspected act of airplane piracy was being committed.

32. See FAA recording, Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, position 46R, at 8:25 A.M.; Air Traffic Control Recording-American Airlines Flight 11, Dec. 21, 2001. Starting at 8:22,Amy Sweeney attempted by airphone to contact the American Airlines flight services office at Logan, which managed the scheduling and operation of flight attendants. Sweeney’s first attempt failed, as did a second at 8:24.When she got through to Nunez, the latter thought she had reported her flight number as 12. Michael Woodward, supervisor at the Boston office, hearing that a problem had been reported aboard an American airplane, went to American’s gate area at Logan with his colleague Beth Williams. Woodward noted that the morning bank of flights had all departed Boston and the gate area was quiet. He further realized that Flight 12 had not even departed yet, so he and Williams returned to the office to try to clarify the situation. See FBI report, “American Airlines Airphone Usage,” Sept. 20, 2001; Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004).The phone call between Sweeney and Woodward lasted about 12 minutes (8:32-8:44) and was not taped. See AAL email, Woodward to Schmidt, “Flight 11 Account of events,” Sept. 19, 2001;AAL notes, Michael Woodward handwritten notes, Sept. 11, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Michael Woodward, Sept. 13, 2001; AAL report, interview of Michael Woodward, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL transcript, telephone call from Nancy Wyatt to Ray Howland, Sept. 11, 2001.

33. See AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 11,” Feb. 19, 2002.AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL transcript, telephone call from Nancy Wyatt to Ray Howland, Sept. 11, 2001.

34. Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004).

35.AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004);AAL, Michael Woodward notes, Sept. 11, 2001.Also at this time American Airlines completed its “lockout” procedure for Flight 11, which restricted access to information about a hijacked flight in accordance with the Air Carrier Standard Security program. See FAA report,”Air Carrier Standard Security Program,” May 2001, p. 110.

36.AAL transcript, telephone call from Nancy Wyatt to Ray Howland, Sept. 11, 2001; Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004).

37. AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001.

38. Ibid.; Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004).

39. NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 11,” Feb. 19, 2002.

40.The 56 passengers represented a load factor of 33.33 percent of the airplane’s seating capacity of 168, below the 49.22 percent for Flight 175 on Tuesdays in the three-month period prior to September 11, 2001. See UAL report, Flight 175 BOS-LAX Load Factors, undated (from June 1, 2001, to Sept. 11, 2001). Nine passengers holding reservations for Flight 175 did not show for the flight. They were interviewed and cleared by the FBI. FAA report, “Executive Summary,” Sept. 12, 2001; FAA report, “Executive Summary, Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis, September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; UAL record, Flight 175 ACARS report, Sept. 11, 2001; UAL record, Flight 175 Flight Data Recap, Sept. 11, 2001.

41. FAA report, “Executive Summary,” Sept. 12, 2001; FAA report, “Executive Summary, Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis, September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-United Airlines 175,” Feb. 19, 2002; NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-United Airlines Flight 175, Dec. 21, 2001. At or around this time, flight attendants Kathryn Laborie and Alfred Marchand would have begun cabin service in first class; with Amy King and Robert Fangman in business class; and with Michael Tarrou, Amy Jarret, and Alicia Titus in economy class. See UAL report, “Flight 175 Flight Attendant Positions/Jumpseats,” undated. United flight attendants, unlike those at American, did not carry cockpit keys. Instead, such keys were stowed in the cabin-on Flight 175, in the overhead bin above seats 1A and 1B in first class. See Don Dillman briefing (Nov. 18, 2003); Bob Jordan briefing (Nov. 20, 2003).

42.Asked by air traffic controllers at 8:37 to look for an American Airlines 767 (Flight 11), United 175 reported spotting the aircraft at 8:38. At 8:41, the flight crew reported having “heard a suspicious transmission” from another aircraft shortly after takeoff, “like someone keyed the mike and said everyone stay in your seats.” See NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-United Airlines Flight 175, Dec. 21, 2001.

43. See Marc Policastro interview (Nov. 21, 2003); FBI reports of investigation, interview of Lee Hanson, Sept. 11, 2001; interview of Marc Policastro, Sept. 11, 2001; interview of Louise Sweeney, Sept. 28, 2001; interview of Ronald May, Sept. 11, 2001. On both American 11 and United 175, Boeing 767 double-aisled aircraft, the hijackers arrayed themselves similarly: two seated in first class close to the cockpit door, the pilot hijacker seated close behind them, and at least one other hijacker seated close behind the pilot hijacker. Hijackers were seated next to both the left and right aisles. On American 77 and United 93, Boeing 757 single-aisle aircraft, the pilot hijacker sat in the first row, closest to the cockpit door. See FBI report, “Summary of Penttbom Investigation,” Feb. 29, 2004, pp. 67-69; AAL schematics for Flight 11 and Flight 77; UAL schematics for Flight 175 and Flight 93.

44. NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-United Airlines 175,” Feb. 19, 2002; NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-United Airlines Flight 175, Dec. 21, 2001.

45. See FBI report of investigation, interview of Lee Hanson, Sept. 11, 2001.

46. Flight crew on board UAL aircraft could contact the United office in San Francisco (SAMC) simply by dialing *349 on an airphone. See FBI report of investigation, interview of David Price, Jan. 24, 2002.At some point before 9:00, SAMC notified United’s headquarters of the emergency call from the flight attendant. See Marc Policastro interview (Nov. 21, 2003); FBI report of investigation, interview of Marc Policastro, Sept.11, 2001; Rich Miles interiew (Nov. 21, 2003).

47. NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-United Airlines 175,” Feb. 19, 2002.

48. See FBI reports of investigation, interview of Julie Sweeney, Oct. 2, 2001; interview of Louise Sweeney, Sept. 28, 2001.

49. See FBI report of investigation, interview of Lee Hanson, Sept. 11, 2001.

50. See ibid.; interview of Louise Sweeney, Sept. 28, 2001.

51. NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-United Airlines 175,” Feb. 19, 2002.

52. AAL report, “Flight Attendant Jump Seat Locations During Takeoff And Flight Attendant Typical Cabin Positions During Start of Cabin Service,” undated;AAL email,Young to Clark, “Flight Crews,” Sept. 12, 2001;AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001.

53.AAL record, System Operations Command Center (SOCC) log, Sept. 11, 2001, p. 2; NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77,” Feb. 19, 2002. Flight attendant Renee May would likely have started working in the first-class galley; Michele Heidenberger would have been in the aft galley; Jennifer Lewis would have been in first class; and Kenneth Lewis would have been in the main cabin. On cabin service, see AAL report, “Flight Attendant Jump Seat Locations During Takeoff And Flight Attendant Typical Cabin Positions During Start of Cabin Service,” undated. For cruising altitude, see NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77,” Feb. 19, 2002. On events in the cabin, see FAA recording, Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center, position HNN R, Sept. 11, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Theodore Olson, Sept. 11, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Ronald and Nancy May, Sept. 12, 2001; AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001.

54.Air traffic control notified American’s headquarters of the problem, and the airline began attempts to contact the flight by 8:59 via ACARS. See NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77,” Feb. 19, 2002. On American 11, the transponder signal was turned off at 8:21; on United 175, the code was changed at 8:47; on American 77, the signal was turned off at 8:56; and on United 93, the signal was turned off at 9:41. See FAA report, “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; Richard Byard interview (Sept.

24, 2003); Linda Povinelli interview (Sept. 24, 2003); see also NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-American Airlines Flight 77, Dec. 21, 2001; AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001.

55. Gerard Arpey interview (Jan. 8, 2004); Larry Wansley interview (Jan. 8, 2004);AAL record, System Operations Command Center (SOCC) log, Sept. 11, 2001.

56. FBI report, “American Airlines Airphone Usage,” Sept. 20, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Ronald and Nancy May, Sept. 12, 2001.

57.The records available for the phone calls from American 77 do not allow for a determination of which of four “connected calls to unknown numbers” represent the two between Barbara and Ted Olson, although the FBI and DOJ believe that all four represent communications between Barbara Olson and her husband’s office (all family members of the Flight 77 passengers and crew were canvassed to see if they had received any phone calls from the hijacked flight, and only Renee May’s parents and Ted Olson indicated that they had received such calls).The four calls were at 9:15:34 for 1 minute, 42 seconds; 9:20:15 for 4 minutes, 34 seconds; 9:25:48 for 2 minutes, 34 seconds; and 9:30:56 for 4 minutes, 20 seconds. FBI report, “American Airlines Airphone Usage,” Sept. 20, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Theodore Olson, Sept. 11, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Helen Voss, Sept. 14, 2001;AAL response to the Commission’s supplemental document request, Jan. 20, 2004.

58. FBI report, “American Airlines Airphone Usage,” Sept. 20, 2001; FBI report of investigation, interview of Theodore Olson, Sept. 11, 2001.

59. See FAA report, “Report of Aircraft Accident,” Nov. 13, 2001; John Hendershot interview (Dec. 22, 2003); FAA report, “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77,” Feb. 19, 2002; Commission analysis of radar data.

60. See FAA report, “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77,” Feb. 19, 2002; FAA report, “Report of Aircraft Accident,” Nov. 13, 2001.

61. See NTSB report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77,” Feb. 19, 2002;TSA report, “Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation for 2001,” Aug. 20, 2002, p. 41.

62. The flight attendant assignments and seating included Chief Flight Attendant Deborah Welsh (first class, seat J1 at takeoff); Sandra Bradshaw (coach, seat J5);Wanda Green (first class, seat J4); Lorraine Bay (coach, seat J3); and CeeCee Lyles (coach, seat J6). See UAL response to Commission questions for the record, Apr. 5, 2004; FAA report, “Chronology of the September 11 Attacks and Subsequent Events Through October 24, 2001,” undated; UAL records, copies of electronic boarding passes for Flight 93, Sept. 11, 2001; Bob Varcadipane interview (May 4, 2004); Newark Tower briefing (May 4, 2004).

63. Although the flight schedule indicates an 8:00 A.M. “departure,” this was the time the plane left the gate area. Taxiing from the gate to the runway normally took about 15 minutes. Bob Varcadipane interview (May 4, 2004); Newark Tower briefing (May 4, 2004).

64. Commission analysis of FAA air traffic control data. On the FAA’s awareness of multiple hijackings, see AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; Craig Marquis interview (Nov. 19, 2003);AAL record, System Operations Command Center (SOCC) log, Sept. 11, 2001; UAL System Operations Control briefing (Nov. 20, 2003); Rich Miles interview (Nov. 21, 2003); UAL report, “Timeline: Dispatch/SMFDO Activities-Terrorist Crisis,” undated.

65. FAA audio file, Boston Center, position 46R, 8:24:38 and 8:24:56; Peter Zalewski interview (Sept. 23, 2003).

66. On September 6, 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a Pan American Boeing 747, a TWA Boeing 707, and a Swissair DC-8. On September 9, a British airliner was hijacked as well. An attempt to hijack an Israeli airliner was thwarted. The Pan American plane landed in Cairo and was blown up after its passengers were released. The other three aircraft were flown to Dawson Field, near Amman, Jordan; the passengers were held captive, and the planes were destroyed. The international hijacking crisis turned into a civil war, as the Jordanian government used force to restore its control of the country. See FAA report, Civil Aviation Reference Handbook, May 1999, appendix D.

The FAA knew or strongly suspected that Flight 11 was a hijacking 11 minutes after it was taken over; Flight 175, 9 minutes after it was taken over. There is no evidence to indicate that the FAA recognized Flight 77 as a hijacking until it crashed into the Pentagon.

67. FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, line 5114, 9:07:13; FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, position 15, 9:19. At 9:07, Boston Air Traffic Control Center recommended to the FAA Command Center that a cockpit warning be sent to the pilots of all commercial aircraft to secure their cockpits. While Boston Center sent out such warnings to the commercial flights in its sector, we could find no evidence that a nationwide warning was issued by the ATC system.

68. Ellen King interview (Apr. 5, 2004). FAA air traffic control tapes indicate that at 9:19 the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Herndon ordered controllers to send a cockpit warning to Delta 1989 because, like American 11 and United 175, it was a transcontinental flight departing Boston’s Logan Airport.

69. For American Airlines’ response, see AAL briefing (Apr. 26, 2004). For Ballinger’s warnings, see Ed Ballinger interview (Apr. 14, 2004). A companywide order for dispatchers to warn cockpits was not issued until 9:21. See UAL report, “Timeline: Dispatch/SMFDO Activities-Terrorist Crisis,” undated. While one of Ballinger’s colleagues assisted him, Ballinger remained responsible for multiple flights. See Ed Ballinger interview (Apr. 14, 2004). American Airlines’ policy called for the flight dispatcher to manage only the hijacked flight, relieving him of responsibilities for all other flights. On American Airlines’ policy, see Craig Marquis, Craig Parfitt, Joe Bertapelle, and Mike Mulcahy interview (Nov. 19, 2003). United Airlines had no such “isolation” policy. UAL System Operations Control briefing (Nov. 20, 2003).

70. On FDR, see NTSB report, “Specialist’s Factual Report of Investigation-Digital Flight Data Recorder” for United Airlines Flight 93, Feb. 15, 2002; on CVR, see FBI report, “CVR from UA Flight #93,” Dec. 4, 2003; Commission review of Aircraft Communication and Reporting System (ACARS) messages sent to and from Flight 93 (which indicate time of message transmission and receipt); see UAL record, Ed Ballinger ACARS log, Sept. 11, 2001. At 9:22, after learning of the events at the World Trade Center, Melody Homer, the wife of co-pilot Leroy Homer, had an ACARS message sent to her husband in the cockpit asking if he was okay. See UAL record, ACARS message, Sept. 11, 2001.

71. On FDR, see NTSB report, “Specialist’s Factual Report of Investigation-Digital Flight Data Recorder” for United Airlines Flight 93, Feb. 15, 2002; on CVR, see FBI report, “CVR from UA Flight #93,” Dec. 4, 2003; FAA report, “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; NTSB report, Air Traffic Control Recording-United Airlines Flight 93, Dec. 21, 2001.

72.The 37 passengers represented a load factor of 20.33 percent of the plane’s seating capacity of 182, considerably below the 52.09 percent for Flight 93 on Tuesdays in the three-month period prior to September 11 (June 11-September 4, 2001). See UAL report, Flight 93 EWR-SFO load factors, undated. Five passengers holding reservations for Flight 93 did not show for the flight. All five were interviewed and cleared by the FBI. FBI report, “Flight #93 ‘No Show’ Passengers from 9/11/01,” Sept. 18, 2001.

73. INS record, Withdrawal of Application for Admission for Mohamed al Kahtani, Aug. 4, 2001.

74. See FAA regulations, Admission to flight deck, 14 C.F.R. � 121.547 (2001); UAL records, copies of boarding passes for United 93, Sept. 11, 2001. One passenger reported that ten first-class passengers were aboard the flight. If that number is accurate, it would include the four hijackers. FBI report of investigation, interview of Lisa Jefferson, Sept. 11, 2001; UAL record, Flight 93 passenger manifest, Sept. 11, 2001.All but one of the six passengers seated in the first-class cabin communicated with the ground during the flight, and none mentioned anyone from their cabin having gone into the cockpit before the hijacking. Moreover, it is unlikely that the highly regarded and experienced pilot and co-pilot of Flight 93 would have allowed an observer into the cockpit before or after takeoff who had not obtained the proper permission. See UAL records, personnel files of Flight 93 pilots. For jumpseat information, see UAL record, Weight and Balance Information for Flight 93 and Flight 175, Sept. 11, 2001;AAL records, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11 and Flight 77, Sept. 11, 2001.

75. Like Atta on Flight 11, Jarrah apparently did not know how to operate the communication radios; thus his attempts to communicate with the passengers were broadcast on the ATC channel. See FBI report, “CVR from UA Flight #93,” Dec. 4, 2003.Also, by 9:32 FAA notified United’s headquarters that the flight was not responding to radio calls. According to United, the flight’s nonresponse and its turn to the east led the airline to believe by 9:36 that the plane was hijacked. See Rich Miles interview (Nov. 21, 2003); UAL report, “United dispatch SMFDO activities-terrorist crisis,” Sept. 11, 2001.

76. In accordance with FAA regulations, United 93’s cockpit voice recorder recorded the last 31 minutes of sounds from the cockpit via microphones in the pilots’ headsets, as well as in the overhead panel of the flight deck. This is the only recorder from the four hijacked airplanes to survive the impact and ensuing fire. The CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175 were not found, and the CVR from American Flight 77 was badly burned and not recoverable. See FBI report, “CVR from UA Flight #93,”Dec. 4, 2003; see also FAA regulations, 14 C.F.R. �� 25.1457, 91.609, 91.1045, 121.359; Flight 93 CVR data. A transcript of the CVR recording was prepared by the NTSB and the FBI.

77. All calls placed on airphones were from the rear of the aircraft. There was one airphone installed in each row of seats on both sides of the aisle. The airphone system was capable of transmitting only eight calls at any one time. See FBI report of investigation, airphone records for flights UAL 93 and UAL 175 on Sept. 11, 2001, Sept. 18, 2001.

78. FAA audio file, Cleveland Center, position Lorain Radar; Flight 93 CVR data; FBI report, “CVR from UA Flight #93,” Dec. 4, 2003.

79. FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Todd Beamer, Sept. 11, 2001, through June 11, 2002; FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Sandy Bradshaw, Sept. 11, 2001, through Oct. 4, 2001.Text messages warning the cockpit of Flight 93 were sent to the aircraft by Ed Ballinger at 9:24. See UAL record, Ed Ballinger’s ACARS log, Sept. 11, 2001.

80.We have relied mainly on the record of FBI interviews with the people who received calls. The FBI interviews were conducted while memories were still fresh and were less likely to have been affected by reading the accounts of others or hearing stories in the media. In some cases we have conducted our own interviews to supplement or verify the record. See FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Sandy Bradshaw, Marion Britton, Thomas Burnett, Joseph DeLuca, Edward Felt, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Linda Gronlund, CeeCee Lyles, Honor Wainio.

81. FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Thomas Burnett, Sept. 11, 2001; FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Marion Britton, Sept. 14, 2001, through Nov. 8, 2001; Lisa Jefferson interview (May 11, 2004); FBI report of investigation, interview of Lisa Jefferson, Sept. 11, 2001; Richard Belme interview (Nov. 21, 2003).

82. See Jere Longman, Among the Heroes-United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back (Harper-Collins, 2002), p. 107; Deena Burnett interview (Apr. 26, 2004); FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Jeremy Glick, Sept. 11, 2001, through Sept. 12, 2001; Lyzbeth Glick interview (Apr. 22, 2004). Experts told us that a gunshot would definitely be audible on the CVR. The FBI found no evidence of a firearm at the crash site of Flight 93. See FBI response to Commission briefing request no. 6, undated (topic 11).The FBI collected 14 knives or portions of knives at the Flight 93 crash site. FBI report, “Knives Found at the UA Flight 93 Crash Site,” undated.

83. FBI response to Commission briefing request no. 6, undated (topic 11); FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Jeremy Glick, Sept. 11, 2001, through Sept. 12, 2001.

84. See FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from United 93.

85. FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from United 93. For quote, see FBI report of investigation, interview of Philip Bradshaw, Sept. 11, 2001; Philip Bradshaw interview (June 15, 2004); Flight 93 FDR and CVR data. At 9:55:11 Jarrah dialed in the VHF Omni-directional Range (VOR) frequency for the VOR navigational aid at Washington Reagan National Airport, further indicating that the attack was planned for the nation’s capital.

86. Flight 93 FDR and CVR data.

87. Ibid.

88. Ibid.

89. Ibid. The CVR clearly captured the words of the hijackers, including words in Arabic from the microphone in the pilot headset up to the end of the flight. The hijackers’ statements, the clarity of the recording, the position of the microphone in the pilot headset, and the corresponding manipulations of flight controls provide the evidence. The quotes are taken from our listening to the CVR, aided by an Arabic speaker.

90. In 1993, a Lufthansa aircraft was hijacked from its Frankfurt to Cairo route and diverted to JFK Airport in New York. The event lasted for 11 hours and was resolved without incident. Tamara Jones and John J. Goldman, “11-Hour Hijack Ends Without Injury in N.Y.,”Los Angeles Times, Feb. 12, 1993, p. A1.

91.The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a tremendous growth of the air transport industry, and the FAA’s corresponding responsibilities grew enormously from the 1960s through 2001.Throughout that time, the FAA focused on setting and maintaining safety and efficiency standards. Since no plane had been hijacked inside the United States since 1991, sabotage was perceived as the most significant threat to civil aviation. For a broader discussion of the perception of the threat, see section 3.3.

92. FAA report, “Administrator’s Fact Book,” July 2001; Benedict Sliney interview (May 21, 2004); John McCartney interview (Dec. 17, 2003).

93. FAA regulations, Air Traffic Control transponder and altitude reporting equipment and use, 14 CFR � 91.215 (2001).

94. DOD radar files, 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron, “9/11 Autoplay,” undated; Charles Thomas interview (May 4, 2004); John Thomas interview (May 4, 2004); Joseph Cooper interview (Sept. 22, 2003);Tim Spence interview (Sept. 30, 2003). For general information on approaching terminals, see FAA report, “Aeronautical Information Manual,” Feb. 19, 2004. Times assigned to audio transmissions were derived by the Commission from files provided by the FAA and the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) based on audio time stamps contained within the files provided by the sender. FAA tapes are certified accurate to Universal Coordinated Time by quality assurance specialists at FAA air traffic facilities. NEADS files are time-stamped as accurate to the Naval Observatory clock. We also compared audio times to certified transcripts when available.

95. FAA Boston Center site visit (Sept. 22-24, 2003).

96. NORAD’s mission is set forth in a series of renewable agreements between the United States and Canada. According to the agreement in effect on 9/11, the “primary missions” of NORAD were “aerospace warning” and “aerospace control” for North America. Aerospace warning was defined as “the monitoring of man-made objects in space and the detection, validation, and warning of attack against North America whether by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles.” Aerospace control was defined as “providing surveillance and control of the airspace of Canada and the United States.” See DOS memo, Exchange of Notes Between Canada and the United States Regarding Extension of the NORAD Agreement, Mar. 28, 1996; see also DOS press release,”Extension of NORAD Agreement,” June 16, 2000 (regarding the extension of the 1996 Agreement unchanged). For NORAD’s defining its job as defending against external attacks, see Ralph Eberhart interview (Mar. 1, 2004).

97. DOD report,”NORAD Strategy Review: Final Report,” July 1992, p. 55.

98. For assumptions of exercise planners, see Paul Goddard and Ken Merchant interview (Mar. 4, 2004). For the authority to shoot down a commercial aircraft prior to 9/11, granted to NORAD but not used against Payne Stewart’s plane in 1999 after the pilot and passengers lost consciousness, see Richard Myers interview (Feb. 17, 2004). A 1998 White House tabletop exercise chaired by Richard Clarke included a scenario in which a terrorist group loaded a Learjet with explosives and took off for a suicide mission to Washington. Military officials said they could scramble fighter jets from Langley Air Force Base to chase the aircraft, but they would need “executive” orders to shoot it down. Chuck Green interview (Apr. 21, 2004). For no recognition of this threat, see Ralph Eberhart interview (Mar. 1, 2004).

99. Richard Myers interview (Feb. 17, 2004). 100. Donald Quenneville interview (Jan. 7, 2004); Langley Air Force Base 119th Fighter Wing briefing (Oct. 6-7, 2003).

101. Collin Scoggins interviews (Sept. 22, 2003; Jan. 8, 2004); FAA report,”Crisis Management Handbook for Significant Events,” Feb. 15, 2000; DOD memo, CJCS instruction,”Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects,” June 1, 2001.

102. See FAA regulations, Hijacked Aircraft, Order 7110.65M, para.10-2-6 (2001); David Bottiglia interview (Oct. 1, 2003); FAA report,”Crisis Management Handbook for Significant Events,” Feb. 15, 2000. From interviews of controllers at various FAA centers, we learned that an air traffic controller’s first response to an aircraft incident is to notify a supervisor, who then notifies the traffic management unit and the operations manager in charge.The FAA center next notifies the appropriate regional operations center (ROC), which in turn contacts FAA headquarters. Biggio stated that for American 11, the combination of three factors-loss of radio contact, loss of transponder signal, and course deviation-was serious enough for him to contact the ROC in Burlington, Mass. However, without hearing the threatening communication from the cockpit, he doubts Boston Center would have recognized or labeled American 11 “a hijack.” Terry Biggio interview (Sept. 22, 2003); see also Shirley Miller interview (Mar. 30, 2004); Monte Belger interview (Apr. 20, 2004).

103. FAA regulations, Special Military Operations, Requests for Service, Order 7610.4J, paras. 7-1-1, 7-1-2 (2001); DOD memo, CJCS instruction, “Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects,” June 1, 2001.

104. Ralph Eberhart interview (Mar. 1, 2004);Alan Scott interview (Feb. 4, 2004); Robert Marr interview (Jan. 23, 2004); FAA regulations, Position Reports within NORAD Radar Coverage, Order 7610.4J, para. 7-4-2 (2001); DOD memo, CJCS instruction,”Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects,” June 1, 2001.

105. FAA regulations,Air/Ground Communications Security, Order 7610.4J, para. 7-1-6 (2001); FAA regula-tions,Vectors, Order 7610.4J, para. 7-2-3 (2001).

106. Peter Zalewski interview (Sept. 22, 2003); Terry Biggio interviews (Sept. 22, 2003; Jan. 8, 2004); Collin Scoggins interview (Sept. 22, 2003); Daniel Bueno interview (Sept. 22, 2003). For evidence of the numerous attempts by air traffic control to raise American 11, see FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident;AAL11; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” Feb. 15, 2002, p. 7.

107. DOD radar files, 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron, “9/11 Autoplay,” undated; Peter Zalewski interview (Sept. 22, 2003); John Schippani interview (Sept. 22, 2003). 108. Peter Zalewski interview (Sept. 22, 2003); John Schippani interview (Sept. 22, 2003). 109. FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident;AAL11; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” Feb. 15, 2002, p. 11; Peter Zalewski interview (Sept. 23, 2003). 110. Peter Zalewski interview (Sept. 23, 2003); John Schippani interview (Sept. 22, 2003);Terry Biggio interviews (Sept. 22, 2003; Jan. 8, 2004); Robert Jones interview (Sept. 22, 2003). 111. FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident;AAL11; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,”Apr. 19, 2002, p. 2; FAA record, Boston Center daily record of facility operation, Sept. 11, 2001;Terry Biggio interviews (Sept. 22, 2003; Jan. 8, 2004); Daniel Bueno interview (Sept. 22, 2004). See also FAA memo,”Transcription of 9/11 Tapes,” Oct. 2, 2003, p. 2; FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, line 4525, 8:32-8:33.

112. See FAA memo,”Transcription of 9/11 Tapes,” Oct. 2, 2003, pp. 2-3; FAA record, New England Region Daily Log, Sept. 11, 2001; Daniel Bueno interview (Sept. 22, 2003);Terry Biggio interviews (Sept. 22, 2003; Jan. 8, 2004).

113. FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident;AAL11; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” Feb. 15, 2002, p. 12. 114. FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident;AAL11; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” Jan. 28, 2002, p. 5. 115. FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident;AAL11; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,”Apr. 19, 2002, p. 5;Terry Biggio interview (Sept. 22, 2003); Collin Scoggins interviews (Sept. 22, 2003; Jan. 8, 2004); Daniel Bueno interview (Sept. 22, 2003).

116. On 9/11, NORAD was scheduled to conduct a military exercise,Vigilant Guardian, which postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union. We investigated whether military preparations for the large-scale exercise compromised the military’s response to the real-world terrorist attack on 9/11. According to General Eber-hart,”it took about 30 seconds” to make the adjustment to the real-world situation. Ralph Eberhart testimony, June 17, 2004.We found that the response was, if anything, expedited by the increased number of staff at the sectors and at NORAD because of the scheduled exercise. See Robert Marr interview (Jan. 23, 2004).

117. For the distance between Otis Air Force Base and New York City, see William Scott testimony, May 23, 2003. For the order from NEADS to Otis to place F-15s at battle stations, see NEADS audio file,Weapons Director Technician position, channel 14, 8:37:15. See also interviews with Otis and NEADS personnel: Jeremy Powell interview (Oct. 27, 2003); Michael Kelly interview (Oct. 14, 2003); Donald Quenneville interview (Jan. 7, 2004), and interviews with Otis fighter pilots: Daniel Nash interview (Oct. 14, 2003); Timothy Duffy interview (Jan. 7, 2004). According to Joseph Cooper from Boston Center,”I coordinated with Huntress [“Huntress” is the call sign for NEADS]. I advised Huntress we had a hijacked aircraft. I requested some assistance. Huntress requested and I supplied pertinent information. I was advised aircraft might be sent from Otis.” FAA record, Personnel Statement of Joseph Cooper, Oct. 30, 2001.

118. Robert Marr interview (Jan. 23, 2004); Leslie Filson, Air War Over America (First Air Force, 2003), p. 56; Larry Arnold interview (Feb. 3, 2004).

119. NEADS audio file, Weapons Director Technician position, channel 14; 8:45:54; Daniel Nash interview (Oct. 14, 2003); Michael Kelly interview (Oct. 14, 2003); Donald Quenneville interview (Jan. 7, 2004); Timothy Duffy interview (Jan. 7, 2004); NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander position, channel 2, 8:44:58; NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 5, 8:51:13.

120. FAA audio file, Boston Center, position 31R; NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander position, channel 2, 8:58:00; NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander position, channel 2, 8:54:55. Because of a technical issue, there are no NEADS recordings available of the NEADS senior weapons director and weapons director technician position responsible for controlling the Otis scramble.We found a single communication from the weapons director or his technician on the Guard frequency at approximately 9:11, cautioning the Otis fighters: “remain at current position [holding pattern] until FAA requests assistance.” See NEADS audio file, channel 24. That corresponds to the time after the Otis fighters entered the holding pattern and before they headed for New York. NEADS controllers were simultaneously working with a tanker to relocate close to the Otis fighters.At 9:10, the senior director on the NEADS floor told the weapons director,”I want those fighters closer in.” NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 5. At 9:10:22, the Otis fighters were told by Boston Center that the second tower had been struck. At 9:12:54, the Otis fighters told their Boston Center controller that they needed to establish a combat air patrol over New York, and they immediately headed for New York City. See FAA audio files, Boston Center, position 31R. This series of communications explains why the Otis fighters briefly entered and then soon departed the holding pattern, as the radar reconstruction of their flight shows. DOD radar files, 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron,”9/11 Autoplay,” undated.

121. In response to allegations that NORAD responded more quickly to the October 25, 1999, plane crash that killed Payne Stewart than it did to the hijacking of American 11, we compared NORAD’s response time for each incident.The last normal transmission from the Stewart flight was at 9:27:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time. The Southeast Air Defense Sector was notified of the event at 9:55, 28 minutes later. In the case of American 11, the last normal communication from the plane was at 8:13 A.M. EDT. NEADS was notified at 8:38, 25 minutes later. We have concluded there is no significant difference in NORAD’s reaction to the two incidents. See NTSB memo, Aircraft Accident Brief for Payne Stewart incident, Oct. 25, 1999; FAA email, Gahris to Myers,”ZJX Timeline for N47BA accident,” Feb. 17, 2004.

122. FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” May 8, 2002, pp. 5-6.

123. FAA audio file, New York Center, position R42, 8:42-8:45; FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” May 8, 2002, pp. 6-8; DOD radar files, 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron,”9/11 Autoplay,” undated.The FAA-produced timeline notes,”Based on coordination received from [Boston Center] indicating a possible hijack, most of the controller’s attention is focused on AAL 11.” See FAA report,”Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; see also David Bottiglia interview (Oct. 1, 2003); FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” May 8, 2002, p. 9.

124. FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, New York Center position, line 5114, 8:48.

125. FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” May 8, 2002, pp. 12, 14.

126. Ibid., p. 15.At 8:57, the following exchange between controllers occurred:”I got some handoffs for you. We got some incidents going over here. Is Delta 2433 going to be okay at thirty-three? I had to climb him for traffic. I let you United 175 just took off out of think we might have a hijack over here.Two of them.” See FAA memo, “Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” May 8, 2002.

127. See FAA report,”Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001; Evanna Dowis interview (Sept. 30, 2004); Michael McCormick interview (Dec. 15, 2003); FAA record, Personnel Statement of Michael McCormick, Oct. 17, 2001. See also FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” May 8, 2002, p. 17.

128. FAA memo,”Full Transcript; Command Center; NOM Operational Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 14, 2003, pp. 15-17.

129. FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001,” Jan. 17, 2002, p. 3.

130.”N90 [New York Terminal Radar Approach] controller stated ‘at approximately 9:00 a.m., I observed an unknown aircraft south of the Newark, New Jersey Airport, northeast bound and descending out of twelve thousand nine hundred feet in a rapid rate of descent, the radar target terminated at the World Trade Center.'” FAA report,”Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001,”Sept. 17, 2001. Former NORAD official Alan Scott testified that the time of impact of United 175 was 9:02. William Scott testimony, May 23, 2003. We have determined that the impact time was 9:03:11 based on our analysis of FAA radar data and air traffic control software logic.

131. FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, New York Center position, line 5114, 9:02:34.

132. Ibid., 9:03; FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, Cleveland/Boston position, line 5115, 9:05; Michael McCormick interview (Oct. 1, 2003); David LaCates interview (Oct. 2, 2003).

133. FAA Audio File, Herndon Command Center, Boston Center position, line 5115, 9:05-9:07.

134. Joseph McCain interview (Oct. 28, 2003); Robert Marr (Jan. 23, 2004); James Fox interview (Oct. 29, 2003); Dawne Deskins interview (Oct. 30, 2003).

135. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander position, channel 2, 9:07:32.

136. Daniel Nash interview (Oct. 14, 2003);Timothy Duffy interview (Jan. 7, 2004).

137. Because the Otis fighters had expended a great deal of fuel in flying first to military airspace and then to New York, the battle commanders were concerned about refueling. As NEADS personnel looked for refueling tankers in the vicinity of New York, the mission crew commander considered scrambling the Langley fighters to New York to provide backup for the Otis fighters until the NEADS Battle Cab (the command area that overlooks the operations floor) ordered “battle stations only at Langley.” The alert fighters at Langley Air Force Base were ordered to battle stations at 9:09. Colonel Marr, the battle commander at NEADS, and General Arnold, the CONR commander, both recall that the planes were held on battle stations, as opposed to scrambling, because they might be called on to relieve the Otis fighters over New York City if a refueling tanker was not located, and also because of the general uncertainty of the situation in the sky.According to William Scott at the Commission’s May 23, 2003, hearing,”At 9:09, Langley F-16s are directed to battle stations, just based on the general situation and the breaking news, and the general developing feeling about what’s going on.” See NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, channel 2, 9:08:36; Robert Marr interview (Oct. 27, 2003); Larry Arnold interview (Feb. 3, 2004). See also Colonel Marr’s statement that “[t]he plan was to protect New York City.” Filson, Air War Over America,p.60.

138. Commission analysis of FAA radar data and air traffic control transmissions.

139.The Indianapolis Center controller advised other Indianapolis Center personnel of the developing situa-tion.They agreed to “sterilize” the airspace along the flight’s westerly route so the safety of other planes would not be affected. John Thomas interview (May 4, 2004).

140. John Thomas interview (Sept. 24, 2003). According to the FAA-produced timeline, at 9:09 Indianapolis Center “notified Great Lakes Regional Operations Center a possible aircraft accident of AMERICAN 77 due to the simultaneous loss of radio communications and radar identification.” FAA report,”Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001.

141. FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, National Operations Manager position, line 4525; FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer east position, line 4530; FAA memo,”Full Transcription; Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, p. 13.

142. Primary radar contact for Flight 77 was lost because the “preferred” radar in this geographic area had no primary radar system, the “supplemental” radar had poor primary coverage, and the FAA ATC software did not allow the display of primary radar data from the “tertiary” and “quadrary” radars.

143. David Boone interview (May 4, 2004); Charles Thomas interview (May 4, 2004); John Thomas interview (May 4, 2004); Commission analysis of FAA radar data and air traffic control software logic.

144. John Thomas interview (May 4, 2004); Charles Thomas interview (May 4, 2004). We have reviewed all FAA documents, transcripts, and tape recordings related to American 77 and have found no evidence that FAA headquarters issued a directive to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets. Review of the same materials also indicates that no one within FAA located American 77 until the aircraft was identified by Dulles controllers at 9:32. For much of that time, American 77 was traveling through Washington Center’s airspace. The Washington Center’s controllers were looking for the flight, but they were not told to look for primary radar returns.

145. John White interview (May 7, 2004); Ellen King interview (Apr. 5, 2004); Linda Schuessler interview (Apr. 6, 2004); Benedict Sliney interview (May 21, 2004); FAA memo, “Full Transcription; Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, pp. 14, 27.

146. John Hendershot interview (Dec. 22, 2003).

147. FAA memo, “Partial Transcript; Aircraft Accident; AAL77; Washington, DC; September 11, 2001,” Sept. 20, 2001, p. 7.

148. NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 7, 9:21:10.

149. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, channel 2, 9:21:50; Kevin Nasypany interview (Jan. 22-23, 2004).

150. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, Channel 2, 9:22:34.The mission commander thought to put the Langley scramble over Baltimore and place a “barrier cap” between the hijack and Washington, D.C. Kevin Nasypany interview (Jan. 22-23, 2004).

151. NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 5, 9:32:10; ibid., 9:33:58.

152. For first quote, see NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 5, 9:35:50. For second quote, see NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position,channel 7, 9:36:34; Kevin Nasypany interview (Jan. 22-23, 2004). For the third quote, see NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, channel 2, 9:39; 9:39:37; Kevin Nasypany interview (Jan. 22-23, 2004).

153. Dean Eckmann interview (Dec. 1, 2003); FAA memo,”Partial Transcript; Scramble Aircraft; QUIT25; September 11, 2001,” Sept. 4, 2003, pp. 2-4 (Peninsular Radar position); FAA memo,”Partial Transcript; Scramble Aircraft; QUIT25; September 11, 2001,” Sept. 4, 2003, pp. 2-5 (East Feeder Radar position).

154. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, channel 2, 9:38:02; Dawne Deskins interview (Oct. 30, 2003).The estimated time of impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon is based on Commission analysis of FDR, air traffic control, radar, and Pentagon elevation and impact site data.

155. Joseph Cooper interview (Sept. 22, 2003); NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, recorder 1, channel 7, 9:41.

156. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander position, channel 2, 9:42:08.

157. FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, p. 10.

158.The United 93 timeline in FAA report,”Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001, states that at 9:28:17 “a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin was heard over the ZOB [Cleveland Center] radio.” See FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, p. 11.

159.The United 93 timeline in FAA report,”Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001,” Sept. 17, 2001, states that at 9:28:54 a “second radio transmission, mostly unintelligible, again with sounds of possible screaming or a struggle and a statement,’get out of here, get out of here’ from an unknown origin was heard over the ZOB [Cleveland Center] radio.” FAA audio file, Cleveland Center, Lorain Radar position; FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, p. 11. At 9:31:48, ExecJet 56 also called in, reporting that “we’re just answering your call.We did hear that, uh, yelling too.” The FAA responded at 9:31:51,”Okay, thanks.We’re just trying to figure out what’s going on.” FAA memo,”Full Transcript;Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, p. 15.

160. FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, p. 15.

161. FAA memo,”Full Transcription;Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, pp. 10, 13; FAA audio file, Herndon Command Center, New York Center position, line 5154.

162. FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, p. 19.

163. Ibid., p. 23.

164. FAA memo,”Full Transcription;Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, pp. 16-17; FAA audio file, Cleveland Center, Lorain Radar position; FAA memo, “Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93); Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, pp. 26-32.

165. FAA memo,”Full Transcription;Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, pp. 17-19.

166. For 9:46 quotation, see ibid., pp. 19-20. For 9:49 discussion about military assistance, see ibid., p. 21.

167. For 9:53 discussion about scrambling aircraft, see ibid., p. 23. Neither Monte Belger nor the deputy director for air traffic services could recall this discussion in their interviews with us. Monte Belger interview (Apr. 20, 2004); Peter Challan interview (Mar. 26, 2004). Subsequently Belger told us he does not believe the conversation occurred. Monte Belger, email to the Commission, July 12, 2004. However, tapes from the morning reveal that at

9:53 a staff person from headquarters told the Command Center “Peter’s talking to Monte now about scrambling.” FAA memo,”Full Transcription;Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, p. 23. For discussions about the status of United 93, see ibid., pp. 24-27.

168. Ibid., pp. 23-27.We also reviewed a report regarding seismic observations on September 11, 2001, whose authors conclude that the impact time of United 93 was “10:06:05�5 (EDT).”Won-Young Kim and G. R. Baum, “Seismic Observations during September 11, 2001,Terrorist Attack,” spring 2002 (report to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources). But the seismic data on which they based this estimate are far too weak in signal-to-noise ratio and far too speculative in terms of signal source to be used as a means of contradicting the impact time established by the very accurate combination of FDR, CVR, ATC, radar, and impact site data sets.These data sets constrain United 93’s impact time to within 1 second, are airplane- and crash-site specific, and are based on time codes automatically recorded in the ATC audiotapes for the FAA centers and correlated with each data set in a process internationally accepted within the aviation accident investigation community. Furthermore, one of the study’s principal authors now concedes that “seismic data is not definitive for the impact of UA 93.” Email from Won-Young Kim to the Commission,”Re: UA Flight 93,”July 7, 2004; see also Won-Young Kim,”Seismic Observations for UA Flight 93 Crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania during September 11, 2001,” July 5, 2004.

169. FAA memo,”Full Transcription;Air Traffic Control System Command Center, National Traffic Management Officer, East Position; September 11, 2001,” Oct. 21, 2003, p. 31.

170. For 10:17 discussion, see ibid., p. 34. For communication regarding “black smoke,” see FAA memo,”Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; N591UA (UAL93) Somerset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, pp. 16-18 (Cleveland Center, Imperial Radar position).This report from the C-130H was recorded on ATC audio about 1 minute and 37 seconds after the impact time of United 93 as established by NTSB and Commission analysis of FDR, CVR, radar, and impact data sets-more than a minute before the earliest impact time originally posited by the authors of the seismic data report.

171. NEADS audio file, Identification Technician, channel 5, 10:07.

172. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, channel 2, 10:10.

173. NEADS audio file, Identification Technician, channel 4, 10:14.

174. DOD record, NEADS MCC/T Log Book, Sept. 11, 2001.

175.William Scott testimony, May 23, 2003.

176. Larry Arnold testimony, May 23, 2003.

177. See DOD record, NEADS MCC/T Log Book, Sept. 11, 2001.The entry in this NEADS log records the tail number not of American 77 but of American 11:”American Airlines #N334AA hijacked.” See also DOD record, Surveillance Log Book, Sept. 11, 2001.

178.William Scott testimony, May 23, 2003; DOD briefing materials,”Noble Eagle; 9-11 Timeline,” undated.

179. For lack of knowledge about the hijacking, see, e.g.,White House transcript, Card interview with Ron Fournier of the Associated Press, Aug. 7, 2002. For information on the hijacking within the FAA, see the discussion of American 11 in section 1.2.

180. See White House record, Situation Room Log, Sept. 11, 2001;White House record, Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) Watch Log, Sept. 11, 2001; DOD record, Senior Operations Officer log, Sept. 11, 2001.

181. Jane Garvey interview (Jun. 30, 2004); Monte Belger interview (Apr. 20, 2004).

182. For notifications, see DOD record, Assistant Deputy Director Operations Passdown Log, Sept. 11, 2001. For the call to the FAA, see DOD record, Senior Operations Officer log, Sept. 11, 2001 (“9:00 NMCC called FAA, briefed of explosion at WTC possibly from aircraft crash.Also, hijacking of American Flight 11 from Boston to LA, now enroute to Kennedy”). For the scrambling of jets not being discussed, see Ryan Gonsalves interview (May 14, 2004).

183. Secret Service records show the motorcade arriving between 8:50 and 8:55. USSS record, shift log, Sept. 11, 2001 (8:55); USSS record, Command Post Protectee Log, Sept. 11, 2001 (8:50). For Andrew Card’s recollection, see Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004). For the President’s reaction, see Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004);White House transcript, President Bush interview with Bob Schieffer of CBS News, Apr. 17, 2002.

184.White House transcript, Rice interview with Evan Thomas of Newsweek, Nov. 1, 2001, p. 2; see also White House record, President’s Daily Diary, Sept. 11, 2001.

185.White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 1.

186. For Rice’s meeting, see White House transcript, Rice interview with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2001, pp. 360-361. For White House staff monitoring the news, see, e.g., White House transcript, Rice interview with Evan Thomas, Nov. 11, 2001, p. 388.

187. On White House staff reaction, see White House transcript, Rice interview with Bob Woodward, Oct. 24, 2001, p. 361; Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004). On security enhancements, see USSS memo, interview with Carl Truscott, Oct. 1, 2001, p. 1. On security measures being precautionary, see Carl Truscott interview (Apr. 15, 2004).

188. For the time of the teleconference, see FAA record, Chronology ADA-30, Sept. 11, 2001. For recollections of the NMCC officer, see Charles Chambers interview (Apr. 23, 2004). For recollections of the FAA manager, see Michael Weikert interview (May 7, 2004). For Belger’s reaction, see Monte Belger testimony, June 17, 2004.

189. For the times of the video teleconference, see White House record, Situation Room Communications Log, Sept. 11, 2001 (9:25 start); CIA notes, Cofer Black timeline, Sept. 11, 2001 (CIA representatives joining at 9:40); FAA record, Chronology ADA-30, Sept. 11, 2001 (FAA representatives joining at 9:40).

190. Patrick Gardner interview (May 12, 2004). For participants, see Jane Garvey interview (Oct. 21, 2003); Monte Belger interview (Apr. 20, 2004); Jeff Griffith interview (Mar. 31, 2004). On the absence of Defense officials, see John Brunderman interview (May 17, 2004).The White House video teleconference was not connected into the area of the NMCC where the crisis was being managed.Thus the director of the operations team-who was on the phone with NORAD-did not have the benefit of information being shared on the video teleconference. See, e.g., Charles Leidig interview (Apr. 29, 2004); Montague Winfield interview (Apr. 26, 2004); Patrick Gardner interview (May 12, 2004). Moreover, when the Secretary and Vice Chairman later participated in the White House video teleconference, they were necessarily absent from the NMCC and unable to provide guidance to the operations team. See DOD report, OT-2 Analysis of NMCC Response to Terrorist Attack on 11 SEP 01, Oct. 4, 2001; John Brunderman interview (May 17, 2004).

191. NSC notes, Paul Kurtz notes, Sept. 11, 2001; Paul Kurtz meeting (Dec. 22, 2003). For shootdown authority having already been conveyed, see DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

192. Charles Leidig interview (Apr. 29, 2004). For the job of the NMCC in an emergency, see NMCC briefing (July 21, 2003).

193. For the Secretary’s activities, see DOD memo, interview of Donald Rumsfeld, Dec. 23, 2002; Stephen Cambone interview (July 8, 2004).

194. Charles Leidig interview (Apr. 29, 2004). Secure teleconferences are the NMCC’s primary means of coordinating emergencies, and they fall into two categories:”event” and “threat.” Event conferences seek to gather information. If the situation escalates, a threat conference may be convened. On 9/11, there was no preset teleconference for a domestic terrorist attack. NMCC and National Military Joint Intelligence Center (NMJIC) briefing (July 21, 2003). For the content of the conferences on 9/11, see DOD transcript,Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

195. See DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001; see also White House notes, Thomas Gould notes, Sept. 11, 2001.

196. On difficulties in including the FAA, see NMCC and NMJIC briefing (July 21, 2003); John Brunderman interview (May 17, 2004). On NORAD and the time of the FAA’s joining, see DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001. For the FAA representative, see Rayford Brooks interview (Apr. 15, 2004).

197. Richard Myers interview (Feb. 17, 2004); Charles Leidig interview (Apr. 29, 2004).

198. DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

199. On the briefing, see ibid.The Vice Chairman was on Capitol Hill when the Pentagon was struck, and he saw smoke as his car made its way back to the building. Richard Myers interview (Feb. 17, 2004). For the Chairman being out of the country, see DOD record, Deputy Director for Operations Passdown Log, Sept. 11, 2001.

200. DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

201. Ibid.

202. Ibid.

203. For the President being informed at 9:05, see White House record, President’s Daily Diary, Sept. 11, 2001. For Card’s statement, see White House transcript, Card interview with Ron Fournier, Aug. 7, 2002. For the Pres-ident’s reaction, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004).

204. For the President’s activities, see Education Channel videotape,”Raw Footage of President Bush at Emma E. Booker Elementary School,” Sept. 11, 2001 (remaining in classroom); Deborah Loewer meeting (Feb. 6, 2004) (in the holding room). For his calls, see White House record, President’s Daily Diary, Sept. 11, 2001 (9:15 call to Vice President); Deborah Loewer meeting (Feb. 6, 2004) (call to Rice); President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004) (call to Pataki); White House record, Secure Switchboard Log, Sept. 11, 2001 (call to Mueller). For the decision to make a statement, see Ari Fleischer interview (Apr. 22, 2004). For the Secret Service’s perspective, see Edward Marinzel interview (Apr. 21, 2004).

205. On the return to Washington, see Deborah Loewer meeting (Feb. 6, 2004); Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004). On consulting with senior advisers, see Ari Fleischer interview (Apr. 22, 2004). On information about additional aircraft, see, e.g., Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004). On decisions and the focus on the President’s speech, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004); Ari Fleischer interview (Apr. 22, 2004); Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004).

206. On the motorcade, see USSS record, shift log, Sept. 11, 2001 (departing 9:35, arriving 9:45); USSS record, Command Post Protectee Log, Sept. 11, 2001 (departing 9:36, arriving 9:42). Fleischer deduced from his notes that the President learned about the Pentagon while in the motorcade.Ari Fleischer interview (Apr. 22, 2004). For the President’s actions and statements to the Vice President, see Ari Fleischer interview (Apr. 22, 2004);White House notes, Ari Fleischer notes, Sept. 11, 2001.

207. On not returning to Washington, see Edward Marinzel interview (Apr. 21, 2004); USSS memo, interview of Edward Marinzel, Oct. 3, 2001;Andrew Card meeting (Mar. 31, 2004). For additional sources on the President’s desire to return, see White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 5. For the Vice President’s recollection, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004). For time of departure, see USSS record, Command Post Protectee Log, Sept. 11, 2001. On Air Force One’s objectives on takeoff, see Edward Marinzel interview (Apr. 21, 2004).

208. USSS memo, interview of Gregory LaDow, Oct. 1, 2001, p. 1. Shortly after the second attack in New York, a senior Secret Service agent charged with coordinating the President’s movements established an open line with his counterpart at the FAA, who soon told him that there were more planes unaccounted for-possibly hijacked- in addition to the two that had already crashed.Though the senior agent told someone to convey this information to the Secret Service’s operations center, it either was not passed on or was passed on but not disseminated; it failed to reach agents assigned to the Vice President, and the Vice President was not evacuated at that time. See Nelson Garabito interview (Mar. 11, 2004); USSS memo, interview of Nelson Garabito, Oct. 1, 2001; see also Terry Van Steenbergen interview (Mar. 30, 2004).

209. American 77’s route has been determined through Commission analysis of FAA and military radar data. For the evacuation of the Vice President, see White House transcript, Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 2; USSS memo, interview of Rocco Delmonico, Oct. 1, 2001 (evacuation of the White House); see also White House notes, Mary Matalin notes, Sept. 11, 2001. On the time of entering the tunnel, see USSS report,”Executive Summary: U.S. Secret Service Timeline of Events, September 11-October 3, 2001,” Oct. 3, 2001, p. 2. Secret Service personnel told us that the 9:37 entry time in their timeline was based on alarm data, which is no longer retrievable. USSS briefing (Jan. 29, 2004).

210.White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 4; President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004).

211. On Mrs. Cheney, see USSS report, “Executive Summary: U.S. Secret Service Timeline of Events, September 11-October 3, 2001,” Oct. 3, 2001, p. 2 (time of arrival);White House transcript, Lynne Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 9, 2001, p. 2 (joining the Vice President). For the contemporaneous notes, see White House notes, Lynne Cheney notes, Sept. 11, 2001. On the content of the Vice President’s call, see White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 5.According to the Vice President, there was “one phone call from the tunnel. And basically I called to let him know that we were a target and I strongly urged him not to return to Washington right away, that he delay his return until we could find out what the hell was going on.” For their subsequent movements, see White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 5;White House transcript, Lynne Cheney interview with Newsweek,Nov. 9, 2001, p. 2.

212. On communications problems, see, e.g., President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004). On lack of an open line, see, e.g., Deborah Loewer meeting (Feb. 6, 2004).

213. On the Vice President’s call, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004). For the Vice President’s time of arrival in the shelter conference room, see White House record, PEOC Shelter Log, Sept. 11, 2001 (9:58); USSS memo, OVP 9/11 Timeline, Nov. 17, 2001 (9:52; Mrs. Cheney arrived White House and joined him in tunnel);White House notes, Lynne Cheney notes (9:55; he is on phone with President);White House transcript, Lynne Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 9, 2001, p. 2 (“And when I got there, he was on the phone with the President . . . But from that first place where I ran into him, I moved with him into what they call the PEOC”); White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 4

(9:35 or 9:36 arrival; he estimated a 15-minute stay); Carl Truscott interview (Apr. 15, 2004) (arrived with Rice and the Vice President in conference room; called headquarters immediately; call logged at 10:00); President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting,Apr. 29, 2004 (Vice President viewed television footage of Pentagon ablaze in tunnel);White House transcript, Rice interview with Evan Thomas, Nov. 1, 2001, p. 388 (Rice viewed television footage of Pentagon ablaze in Situation Room). For the Vice President’s recollection about the combat air patrol, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004); White House transcript, President Bush interview with Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, Dec. 17, 2001, p. 16.

214. President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004); see also White House transcript,Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, pp. 7-8.

215. Douglas Cochrane meeting (Apr. 16, 2004); Condeleeza Rice meeting (Feb. 7, 2004). For Rice entering after the Vice President, see USSS report,”Executive Summary: U.S. Secret Service Timeline of Events, September 11-October 3, 2001,” Oct. 3, 2001, p. 2; Carl Truscott interview (Apr. 15, 2004).

216. In reconstructing events that occurred in the PEOC on the morning of 9/11, we relied on (1) phone logs of the White House switchboard; (2) notes of Lewis Libby, Mrs. Cheney, and Ari Fleischer; (3) the tape (and then transcript) of the air threat conference call; and (4) Secret Service and White House Situation Room logs, as well as four separate White House Military Office logs (the PEOC Watch Log, the PEOC Shelter Log, the Communications Log, and the 9/11 Log).

217. DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001. For one open line between the Secret Service and the FAA, see note 208. At Secret Service headquarters, personnel from the intelligence division were also on a phone conference with FAA headquarters. Chuck Green interview (Mar. 10, 2004). For notification of an inbound aircraft at 10:02, see USSS record, Intelligence Division timeline, Sept. 11, 2001; USSS record, Crisis Center Incident Monitor, Sept. 11, 2001. For the FAA’s projection, see Tim Grovack interview (Apr. 8, 2004). For Secret Service updates, see DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

218.White House notes, Lynne Cheney notes, Sept. 11, 2001;White House notes, Lewis Libby notes, Sept. 11, 2001.

219. For Libby’s characterization, see White House transcript, Scooter Libby interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2001. For the Vice President’s statement, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004). For the second authorization, see White House notes, Lynne Cheney notes, Sept. 11, 2001; White House notes, Lewis Libby notes, Sept. 11, 2001.

220. Joshua Bolten meeting (Mar. 18, 2004); see also White House notes, Lewis Libby notes, Sept. 11, 2001 (“10:15-18:Aircraft 60 miles out, confirmed as hijack-engage? VP:Yes. JB [Joshua Bolten]: Get President and confirm engage order”).

221. For the Vice President’s call, see White House record, Secure Switchboard Log, Sept. 11, 2001;White House record, President’s Daily Diary, Sept. 11, 2001; White House notes, Lewis Libby notes, Sept. 11, 2001. Fleischer’s

10:20 note is the first mention of shootdown authority. See White House notes,Ari Fleischer notes, Sept. 11, 2001;

see also Ari Fleischer interview (Apr. 22, 2004).

222. DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

223. On reports of another plane, see White House notes, Lynne Cheney notes, Sept. 11, 2001;White House notes, Lewis Libby notes, Sept. 11, 2001. On the Vice President’s authorization, see ibid.; DOD transcript,Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001. For Hadley’s statement, see DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

224. For the quotation, see White House transcript, Libby interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2001. On the air-craft’s identity, see White House record,White House Military Office Log, Sept. 11, 2001.

225. On the NMCC, see DOD transcript,Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001. On the Secret Service’s contacts with the FAA, see notes 208, 217. On the Secret Service conveying information to the White House, see DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001; Nelson Garabito interview (Mar. 11, 2004).

226. DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

227. Ibid.

228. Ralph Eberhart interview (Mar. 1, 2004). On the morning of 9/11, General Eberhart was in his office at headquarters-roughly 30 minutes away from Cheyenne Mountain, where the operations center is located.

229. DOD record, Continental Region chat log, Sept. 11, 2001.

230. NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander position, channel 2, 10:32:12. For the text of the chat log message, see DOD record, Continental Region chat log, Sept. 11, 2001.

231. For the statements of NEADS personnel, see Robert Marr interview (Jan. 23, 2004) (NEADS commander); Kevin Nasypany interview (Jan. 22, 2004) (mission commander); James Fox interview (Oct. 29, 2004) (senior weapons director). On the understanding of leaders in Washington, see DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001. For the orders to Langley pilots, see NEADS audio file,Weapons Director position, recorder 1, channel 2, 10:10-11.

232. For evidence of the President speaking to Rumsfeld, see White House notes,Ari Fleischer notes, Sept. 11, 2001. On inability to recall this conversation, see Donald Rumsfeld interview (Jan. 30, 2004).

233. DOD note, transcript of Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.

234. Donald Rumsfeld interview (Jan. 30, 2004).At 11:15, Secretary Rumsfeld spoke to the President and told him DOD was working on refining the rules of engagement so pilots would have a better understanding of the circumstances under which an aircraft could be shot down. See, e.g., DOD notes, Stephen Cambone notes, Sept. 11, 2001. DOD did not circulate written rules of engagement until sometime after 1:00 P.M. See DOD memo, rules of engagement, Sept. 11, 2001 (faxed to Andrews Air Force Base at 1:45 P.M.).

235. David Wherley interview (Feb. 27, 2004).

236.The 113th Wing first learned from the FAA tower at Andrews that the Secret Service wanted fighters air-borne.The FAA tower had been contacted by personnel at FAA headquarters, who were on an open line with senior agents from the President’s detail. See Nelson Garabito interview (Mar. 11, 2004); Terry Van Steenbergen interview (Mar. 30, 2004). On the Secret Service agent relaying instructions, see USSS memo, Beauchamp to AD-Inspection, September 11 experience, Feb. 23, 2004. On the order to fly weapons free, see David Wherley interview (Feb. 27, 2004); DOD memo, interview of David Wherley, Oct. 3, 2001, p. 12.

237. President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004).

238. These estimates are based on analysis of Boeing 757 maximum operating speed data, FAA and military radar data, and assumptions regarding how the airplane would be operated en route to the Washington, D.C., area. The shortest time frame assumes maximum speed without regard to overspeed warnings, a straight-line path, and no time allowed for maneuvering or slowing to aim and crash the airplane into its target.The probable time frame allows for speeds consistent with the observed operation of the airplane prior to its final maneuvers and crash, as well as for maneuvers and slowing in the D.C. area to take aim.According to radar data, the fighters from Langley Air Force Base arrived over Washington at about 10:00 A.M. Two of the three Langley fighters were fully armed (i.e., with missiles and guns); the third fighter carried only guns. Craig Borgstrom interview (Dec. 1, 2003).

239. For the pilots’ awareness, see Dean Eckmann interview (Dec. 1, 2003); Bradley Derrig interview (Dec. 1, 2003); Craig Borgstrom interview (Dec. 1, 2003). For the quotation, see Dean Eckmann interview (Dec. 1, 2003). 240. For no authority at 10:10, see NEADS audio file, Mission Crew Commander, channel 2. For shootdown

authority at 10:31, see DOD record, Continental Region chat log, Sept. 11, 2001. For possibility of ordering a shoot-down, see Larry Arnold interview (Feb. 2, 2004).

241. NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, recorder 1, channel 4, 10:02:22.

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Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism

Posted on January 18, 2022 by mekorganic

Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism

The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend.

Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her home.

Premani Kumar, a 64-year-old woman also from Jharkhand, met the same demise as Devi, dying of hunger and exhaustion the same year after the Aadhaar system transferred her pension payments to another person without her permission, while cutting off her monthly food rations.

A similarly cruel fate was reserved for Santoshi Kumari, an 11-year-old girl, also from Jharkhand, who reportedly died begging for rice after her family’s ration card was canceled because it had not been linked to their Aadhaar digital ID.

These three heart-rending casualties were among a spate of deaths in rural India in 2017 which came as a direct result of the Aadhaar digital ID system.

With over one billion Indians in its database, Aadhaar is the largest biometric digital ID program ever constructed. Besides serving as a portal to government services, it tracks users’ movements between cities, their employment status, and purchasing records. It is a de facto social credit system that serves as the key entry point for accessing services in India.

Having branded Aadhaar’s creator, fellow billionaire Nandan Nilekani, as a “hero,” initiatives backed by tech oligarch Bill Gates have long sought to bring the “Aadhaar approach to other countries.” With the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, Gates and other mavens of the digital ID industry have an unprecedented opportunity to introduce their programs into the wealthy countries of the Global North.

For those yearning for an end to pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their vaccination against Covid-19 have been marketed as the key to reopening the economy and restoring their personal freedom. But the implementation of immunity passports is also accelerating the establishment of a global digital identity infrastructure.

As the military surveillance firm and NATO contractor Thales recently put it, vaccine passports “are a precursor to digital ID wallets.”

And as the CEO of iProove, a biometric ID company and Homeland Security contractor, emphasized to Forbes, “The evolution of vaccine certificates will actually drive the whole field of digital ID in the future. So, therefore, this is not just about Covid, this is about something even bigger.”

For the national security state, digital immunity passports promise unprecedented control over populations wherever such systems are implemented. Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner of Ontario, Canada has described the vaccine passport system already active in her province as “a new, inescapable web of surveillance with geolocation data being tracked everywhere.”

For tech oligarchs such Bill Gates and neoliberal institutions such as the World Economic Forum, digital ID and digital currency systems have already enabled the extraction of unbelievable profits in the Global South, where hundreds of millions of people remain “unbanked” and therefore outside the sphere of electronic payments systems.

Now, with grassroots protest building against an exclusionary regime of vaccine passports, the captains of global capitalism are campaigning with more urgency than ever to bring digital ID to the West.

For these elite interests, the digitization of immunity passports represent a critical tool in a long-planned economic and political transformation.

“With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society”

Across the globe, the certification of vaccination against COVID-19 is already a requirement to participate in daily life.

In Indonesia, COVID-19 vaccines are mandatory, and those who refuse may face fines or be refused access to public services. In Greece, residents must present immunity to work in or enter bars, theaters, and other indoor public spaces.

France has similarly required residents to carry a health pass for access to all restaurants, bars, trains, and any venue accommodating more than 50 people, a decision that has stoked widespread protests throughout the country. The socialist French former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has blasted the new restrictions as “absurd, unfair and authoritarian.”

Italy has mandated its Green Pass for all workers, threatening them with termination from jobs and suspension of pay. Italy also requires the pass to use Italian public transit. Scenes of private security over-enforcement of the Green Pass and the exclusion of Italy’s elderly from vital services have already begun to go viral on social media.

Restrictions for Lithuanians who are not double vaccinated or unable to demonstrate recent prior infection from Covid-19 represent some of the harshest in the world. They are banned from restaurants, all non-essential stores, shopping centers, beauty services, libraries, banks or insurance agencies, universities, inpatient medical care, and train travel.

Gluboco Lietuva, a self-described “Lithuanian father” who has refused vaccination, stated on Twitter: “With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society. We have no income. Banned from most shopping. Can barely exist.”

Four out of ten Canadian provinces currently require citizens to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter indoor public venues like restaurants and theaters. All federal public servants and some other workers must be vaccinated to keep their jobs.

The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also requires all air travelers and interprovincial train travelers to be vaccinated. Canada’s Alberta province took the measures a step further this September when it announced that those who cannot prove full COVID vaccination will no longer be allowed to socialize indoors in groups of more than 12.

In Israel, meanwhile, only those who have received three doses can work or shop indoors and go to restaurants; citizens who received two shots over six months ago are now considered unvaccinated. This rule has consolidated what even the New York Times has deemed a “two-tier system for the vaccinated and unvaccinated … raising legal, moral and ethical questions.”

In the US, President Joe Biden is “moving forward with vaccination requirements wherever [he] can.” Biden, who declared that his “patience is wearing thin” with unvaccinated Americans, recently announced new federal requirements mandating that about 80 million Americans – including all those who work at companies with more than 100 employees – must either be vaccinated or get tested for COVID-19 weekly.

Biden has also mandated that those working at facilities which receive Medicare or Medicaid must show proof of immunity to keep their jobs. According to AP, President Biden is considering proof of immunity for interstate travel, a restriction his former public health advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, has clamored for.

In the state of Colorado, the UCHealth hospital system has announced that it will not allow organ transplants to be performed on unvaccinated patients, prompting some to travel to Texas for life-saving procedures.

New York City offers a glimpse of the program in store for the rest of the country. The city’s “Key to NYC” requirement, which went into effect September 13, requires proof of vaccination to work at or attend indoor dining, indoor fitness, and entertainment venues like museums, stadiums, arcades, and theaters.

“If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated,” Mayor De Blasio stated. “[New York City] is a miraculous place literally full of wonders … if you’re un-vaccinated, unfortunately, you will not be able to participate.”

While outlets like CNN have referred to vaccine passports as a “useful, temporary measure,” it is increasingly evident that the proof of immunity restrictions imposed on Western populations may not go away any time soon.

Australia’s New South Wales Ministry of Health Dr. Kerry Chant has stated that citizens “need to get used to being vaccinated with COVID vaccines for the future… it will be a regular cycle of vaccination and revaccination.”

Albert Bourla, CEO of the Pfizer corporation that has seen its stock skyrocket during the pandemic, remarked that the “most likely scenario” is coronavirus vaccine shots mandated on an annual basis.

As a February Nature headline read, “the coronavirus is here to stay.” Or, as Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, put it: it is “very, very, unlikely” that COVID-19 will ever go away.

“Eradicating this virus right now from the world is a lot like trying to plan the construction of a stepping-stone pathway to the Moon,” said Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “It’s unrealistic.”

“This is our life from now, in waves,” Israel’s Coronavirus Czar, Salman Zarka, acknowledged.

Already, Zarka has prepared plans to mandate a fourth dose for Israelis.

COVID mandates to be digitally enforced

While a state-mandated treadmill of boosters may seem unappealing to many, if not outright hellish, for others the nightmare presents the opportunity of a lifetime. As early as May 2020, only seven weeks after the pandemic was declared, US tech billionaire Bill Gates predicted that “eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.”

Now, over a year later, a growing number of local and national governments require some form of digital proof of vaccination or natural immunity against COVID-19.

Those who want to travel to Canada, for example, are required to download an app that verifies the vaccination status of incoming travelers. The government also plans to introduce a federal, Canada-wide digital vaccine passport in the coming months.

When the European Union (EU) opened up to foreign tourists this summer, it introduced a “Digital COVID Certificate” which granted entry to those vaccinated against COVID-19, those who have had a negative test, or those who recently recovered from an infection. Its proposed “Digital Green Certificate” has been branded as a means to facilitate safe free movement inside the EU during the pandemic.

The government of France is partnering with a biometric technology company called IDEMIA to “make it easier for its citizens to prove their identity and complete online transactions using a smartphone.” The new app will “enable French citizens to place their national electronic identification cards [introduced to France as a COVID-19 response in August 2021] … on the back of their smartphones and have their identity instantly confirmed.” IDEMIA is also helping France certify travelers immunity data with their Health Travel Pass suite.

The US is still accepting paper vaccination records, and President Biden has insisted no national app is in the works. However, seven U.S. states (California, New York, Louisiana, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, and Hawaii) have already implemented apps certifying vaccination against COVID-19 and have various degrees of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in place.

ImmunaBand, a wearable wristband, whose company mission is “to bring the world a little closer in a time of the COVID-19 pandemic and for you to demonstrate to the world your vaccination status,” has also been approved by New York City as proof of vaccination.

“In typical American fashion, the US government is relegating the creation of digital vaccination certifications to the private sector,” stated the non-profit Data & Society.

Indeed, behind the push for digital vaccine passports is a coterie of supra-national neoliberal institutions guided by oligarchic tech industry donors.

Elite corporate interests behind digital COVID passports

Mega-corporations, international finance institutions, and billionaire-backed private foundations have played a vital role in lobbying for and implementing digital immunity passports.

The burgeoning global health passport system has been coordinated under the umbrella of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO). However, this institution is so intertwined with wealthy private interests it can hardly be characterized as a “public” health body.

As former WHO director Margaret Chan told filmmaker Lilian Franck, “only 30 percent of my budget is predictable funds. The other 70 percent, I have to take a hat and go around the world to beg for money. And when they give us the money, [it] is highly linked to their preferences, what they like.”

Chief among those private funders is the second wealthiest man in the world, Bill Gates, and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which happens to be the second largest donor to the WHO.

Bill Gates with World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom

The Gates Foundation recently helped fund a WHO paper providing “implementation guidance” for proof of vaccination certifications across the world. The authors crafted the paper alongside the Rockefeller Foundation and with guidance from several high-level representatives of the World Bank.

According to Foreign Affairs, “few policy initiatives or normative standards set by the WHO are announced before they have been casually, unofficially vetted by Gates Foundation staff.” Or, as other sources told Politico in 2017, “Gates’ priorities have become the WHO’s.”

Also at the forefront of the shift to digital credentials is the World Economic Forum (WEF). “The Forum is involved in the WHO task force to reflect on those [vaccine credential requirements] standards and think about how they would be used,” reads a May WEF article.

On paper, the WEF (also known as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation) is an NGO and think tank “committed to improving the state of the world.” In reality, it is an international network of some of the wealthiest and most influential people on the planet. The Forum positions itself as the thought leader of global capitalism.

The organization is best known for its annual gathering of the global ruling class. Each year, hedge fund managers, bankers, CEOs, media representatives, and heads of state gather in Davos to “shape global, regional and industry agendas.” As Foreign Affairs put it, “the WEF has no formal authority, but it has become the major forum for elites to discuss policy ideas and priorities.”

In 2017, German economist and WEF founder Klaus Schwab introduced the concept of “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” with the title of the book he published that year. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) denotes the current “technological revolution” that is changing the way people “live, work, and relate to one another,” and with implications “unlike anything humankind has experienced,” according to Schwab.

For him, the 4IR is the “merging of the physical, digital and biological worlds.” Schwab has even said that the 4IR will inevitably veer into trans-humanism, or human genome editing.

In January 2021, several WEF partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and several other “heavyweights,” announced a partnership to launch the Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI) to develop digital immunization authentication tools, according to Forbes.

Aiming to institute a single “SMART Health Card” for the world, the VCI intends for its SMART Health Cards to be recognized “across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries.”

In the US, some states are already deploying the SMART Health Cards developed by the VCI. These SMART Health Cards have laid the basis for a de-facto national standard for vaccine credentials.

“If enough states embrace the technology, it could become a de facto nationwide standard and relieve the Biden administration of having to lay out federal requirements for domestic purposes,” Politico noted.

The latest version of Apple’s iOS, iOS 15, even includes SMART Health Card support.

As of today, those who received a vaccine in California, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, Virginia, or certain counties in Maryland can obtain a SMART Health Card from the state.

In most other states, a SMART Health Card is available to those who were vaccinated at one of more than 17,100 CVS, Walgreen’s, or Rite Aid pharmacy chains nationwide.

“More states, pharmacies, and health systems will begin issuing SMART Health Cards very soon,” promises the site of the Commons Project, one of the founders of the VCI initiative.

Commons Project CEO Paul Meyer happens to be a WEF “young leader.”

Commons Project CEO and World Economic Forum Young Leader Paul Meyer

In 2015, The Gates Foundation provided seed money to a Yale School of Public Health project that would become known as Khushi Baby. Now a non-profit, Khushi Baby makes microchip-equipped necklaces for a child to wear at all times to track their vaccination status and establish continuous monitoring from their first immunizations through adulthood. The non-profit says it is now using data from over 35,000 villages in India to create algorithms that “predict health outcomes for mothers and children.”

In 2016, IDEMIA, the security firm now working with the French government on vaccination and identity verification, designed the microchip-equipped necklaces. The necklaces have been used to track health data for 13 million people in India since the beginning of the pandemic.

These programs have been marketed by corporate consultants as essential tools for improving equality and inclusion in the Global South. “Digital identification is key to inclusive growth,” claimed McKinsey, the global consulting firm, in 2019.

“Something like 1 billion people could be more financially included and participative,” said Mike Kubzansky, managing partner of Ebay founder and media mogul Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network during a WEF panel exploring how “Digital Identification Provides a Significant Opportunity for Value Creation.”

Like Gates, Omidyar is heavily invested in the advancement of digital ID and currency systems through his Omidyar Network, which collaborates with the World Economic Forum on the Good ID initiative.

A closer look at the push for “inclusion” by corporate behemoths reveals their altruistic language as little more than public relations cover for raw profit motives, resulting in marginalization and even death for many of those roped into their digital ID systems.

Besides serving as the staging ground for the Khushi Baby venture, India has become a laboratory for digital tracking and identity systems. With support from Western capitalist outfits like the Gates Foundation and the World Bank, the country has become the site of the world’s largest digital ID database, known as Aadhaar.

The Aadhaar system is named for a 12 digit number that serves as a proof of identity and address, among other markers, anywhere in India. To date, a whopping 1.3 billion Indians have been enrolled in the system, making it the largest biometric ID database ever constructed. It contains iris scans and fingerprints from both hands of each user. The technology for this system was provided by none other than the French security firm IDEMIA.

Nandan Nilekani, creator of the Aadhar digital ID system, with Bill Gates

Aadhaar was implemented in 2014, the year that the free marketeering, tech-centric Narendra Modi entered the prime minister’s office. Its creator, tech billionaire Nandan Nilekani, has been branded “the Bill Gates of Bangalore,” celebrated by globalization enthusiasts like Thomas Friedman, and hailed by none other than Gates as an altruistic “hero.” Gates’ foundation has collaborated with Nilekani through its “Co-impact” project alongside billionaire eBay co-founder Jeffrey Skoll’s Skoll Foundation.

“Aadhaar is a huge asset for India,” effused Gates in a 2019 interview with the Indian network Times Now. “The fact that you can make digital payments and open a bank account so easily, India is a leader in that. There are huge benefits in being able to get digital government money to the beneficiary.”

But behind the neoliberal spin, Nilekani’s Aadhar digital ID system has wreaked havoc on the lives of India’s most vulnerable and stigmatized populations.

In the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, a wave of deaths took place in 2017 when impoverished citizens were cut off from government-subsidized food rations by the Aadhaar system. In several cases, aging widows were denied rice for several months because the system rejected their fingerprint scans.https://www.youtube.com/embed/KoVynNOBKFs?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

Around the same time, three brothers died of starvation after they failed to properly register with Aadhaar and were subsequently denied rations for six months. The same cruel fate was visited on the Kumari family, which was unable to obtain an electronic Aadhaar ID, lost its ration card, and saw its 11-year-old daughter, Santoshi, die of hunger.

“Many people in Jharkhand have been victims of similar deprivation of food entitlements during the last few months,” reported India’s Scroll. “The main reason is that Aadhaar-based biometric authentication is now compulsory in about 80% of ration shops in the state.”

According to Scroll, a random sample of 18 villages where biometric authentication was compulsory found that a staggering 37% of cardholders were unable to buy their food rations.

Besides making Aadhaar the key to obtaining government services, the Modi government has integrated data collected by Aadhar to establish a “360-degree database” that “automatically track[s] when a citizen moves between cities, changes jobs, or buys a new property,” according to the Huffington Post.

When Covid-19 first reached India in early 2020, Nilekani proposed employing Aadhar as the basis for an anti-Covid vaccination and tracking program. “We must ensure that everybody gets a digital certificate with the date of vaccination, name of the vaccine and through which vendor and at what location,” he declared in 2020.

Unsurprisingly, Nilekani’s system of mass surveillance has proven much more effective at harvesting data than it has been at protecting it. In 2018, the Indian Tribune newspaper was able to purchase the personal information of nearly every Aadhaar user through anonymous sellers over WhatsApp. The process took only 10 minutes and cost about $6 USD, the paper reported.

The system’s serial breaches of privacy even prompted some HIV-positive Indians to drop out of antiretroviral treatment programs that require the Aadhaar card. Though the Aadhaar is said to be voluntary, individuals with HIV have complained to Indian media that they were pressured into enrolling into the ID program, and had been threatened with the loss of medical services.

US privacy advocates have pointed to digital national identity programs like Aadhaar as gargantuan surveillance tools that establish the basis for a social credit system.

Addressing the US House Committee on Financial Services in July 2021, Elizabeth Renieris of Notre-Dame’s Technology Ethics Lab warned, “The Aadhaar number in India is able to track your activity across all facets of your life, from employment to healthcare, to school, to pretty much everything you do. You can’t retain autonomy over specific domains of your life. You can’t separate your personal and professional reputation. You can’t have this kind of contextualized personal identity. I think that’s really problematic.”

“We must avoid building digital identity systems and infrastructure in a way that further expands and entrenches the surveillance state, as does the national identity system in India,” Renieris continued.

But it is the all-encompassing social credit aspect of Aadhaar that has made Gates so fond of the system.

Addressing India’s top policy makers in 2016, the world’s second wealthiest man declared, “Over time, all of these transactions create a footprint and so when you go in for credit, the ability to access the history that you’ve paid your utility bills on time, that you’ve saved up money for your children’s education, all of those things in your digital trail, accessed in an appropriate way allow the credit market to [score the risk properly].“

ID4D expands digital ID to track more human activity than ever

In 2016, the Gates Foundation ponied up funding for a World Bank project called the Identity for Development (ID4D) Initiative for the declared purpose of bringing the “Aadhaar approach to other countries.”

To date, the World Bank has invested $1.2 billion into the ID4D initiative, with the official aim of creating “identification systems using 21st Century solutions.”

Among the four financial partners that established the initiative were two familiar Big Tech-backed operations: The Gates Foundation and The Omidyar Network, along with Australian Aid and UK Aid. According to the World Bank, the Gates Foundation’s “catalytic contributions” in particular transformed the project from an idea to a functional World Bank initiative.

Aadhaar’s Nilekani currently sits on the ID4D Initiative advisory council.

According to the World Bank, ID4D “promote[s] the use of digital ID systems for free movement and service delivery, by creating linkages across systems that allow users to authenticate themselves for key services such as receiving social transfer payments, completing financial transactions, and crossing borders.”

Promotional materials frame this venture as a humanitarian cause centered on helping poor women and making sure ”unbanked” individuals (those without a bank account) such as refugees and migrants are included in the modern economy.

Yet a closer look at the initiative’s backers and their agenda reveals a longstanding goal of the captains of global capitalism: creating a digitally centered identity system that enables powerful public and private institutions to track more human activity than ever.

“Digital ID … can be leveraged by government and commercial platforms to facilitate a variety of digital transactions, including digital payments,” explains the World Bank.

In an August 2021 white paper, the World Bank called on African nations to achieve a “single digital market” and loosen regulations on digital infrastructure to lower the risk for investors. The paper revealed the real intentions behind the World Bank’s push for a closure to the digital divide: opening up the continent for foreign investment. “Government regulation,” the paper declared, “needs to smoothen the path to digital transformation in the region.”

“By accelerating Africa’s digital transformation, businesses can reap the benefits,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) proclaimed in a 2020 article titled, “Africa has the potential to boost global growth.”

“There will […] be lucrative opportunities in Algeria, Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia … a good bet for companies seeking to enter new markets,” the WEF advised.

As the World Economic Forum recently wrote, “COVID-19 has highlighted the advantages of creating a digital economy.” Yet the advantages the group speaks of will likely fall on the side of its stakeholders.

Partners of the World Economic Forum’s “Platform for a Good Digital Identity ” include the biometric ID firm Accenture, Amazon, Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC Bank, Mastercard, the biometric technology firm Simprints, and the credit giant, Visa.

The initiative’s stakeholders represent the key beneficiaries of a biometric ID system imposed on the Global South, with Western multinational financial firms functioning as the gateway for its inhabitants to participate in the global economy.

The WEF has also made clear that the “end goal” of its agenda is expanding the model it established in India until every person in the world holds a unique digital ID.

In an article titled “Digital ID is the Catalyst of Our Digital Future,” Mohit Joshi, a WEF ‘young leader,’ argued that “governments should use [Aadhaar] to streamline the delivery of services and payments, and massively increase financial inclusion.”

In a separate paper, however, the WEF conceded that the new digital system will not necessarily provide users with the liberation they have been promised: “Fourth Industrial Revolution digital identity will determine what products, services, and information we can access – or, conversely, what is closed off to us,” the WEF stated.

ID2020 leverages vaccinations to push “beyond dystopian” digital ID’s and payments

Back in 2016, Bill Gates’ Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), Microsoft, Accenture and the Rockefeller Foundation established a new consortium to provide digital ID certificates to infants when they receive their routine immunizations. They called it ID2020, incidentally naming it for the year that a global pandemic would be declared.

ID2020 says it is “dedicated to spearheading a global digital biometric identity standard,” and claims Digital IDs will lead to “financial independence.”

Partners in the ID2020 initiative include the credit card giant Mastercard and Simprints, a biometric technology firm supported by the US Agency for International Development, a traditional front organization for US intelligence.

Mastercard’s ‘community pass’ project aims to capture the biometrics of 30 million individuals in remote parts of Africa over the next three years and issue them a Mastercard Community Pass biometric smart card, which will in turn provide Africans with a digital biometric identity and a digital bank account.

ID2020 is currently operating in Bangladesh, where it administers biometric enrollment and digital ID to infants when they receive routine immunizations. GAVI CEO Seth Berkely has said he plans to expand the program across the underdeveloped world, working with mega-corporations such as Facebook and Mastercard to tie vaccination status to a biometric identification system.

“Eighty-nine percent of children and adolescents without identification live in countries supported by Gavi,” Berkley stated. “We are enthusiastic about the potential impact of this program not just in Bangladesh, but as something we can replicate across Gavi-eligible countries.”

With the WHO’s declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020, an unprecedented opportunity arrived for the forces advancing digital IDs. As Andrew Bud, the CEO of biometric tech company and Department of Homeland Security contractor iProov, enthused, “The evolution of vaccine certificates will actually drive the whole field of digital id in the future. So, therefore, this is not just about Covid, this is about something even bigger.”

By the following year, ID2020 and the USAID-partnered biometric ID firm, Simprints, had leveraged funding from Gates Foundation to publish an article entitled, “COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery: An Opportunity to Set Up Systems for the Future.” The authors argued that COVID-19 vaccines in the Global South could be used as a “potential lever” to deliver digital biometric IDs.

They went on to admit that such digital biometric systems would stay in place long after the COVID-19 pandemic was over, and would be exploited for an array of purposes after the rollout: “Biometrics have the advantage of being agnostic to use case,” the co-authors wrote, “meaning they can connect different systems during or even after rollout.”

Elizabeth Renieris of the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab resigned from a technical advisory role on ID2020, citing “risks to civil liberties” after the initiative teamed up with tech giants to design COVID immunity passports backed up by experimental blockchain technology.

Renieris went on to denounce the burgeoning ID system as a civil liberties nightmare: “The prospect of severely curtailing the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals through ill-thought-out plans for ‘immunity passports’ or similar certificates, particularly ones that would leverage premature standards and a highly experimental and potentially rights-infringing technology like blockchain, is beyond dystopian.”

Digital ID mavens prey on the global poor

While linking a digital biometric ID to individuals’ finances is almost certain to exclude masses of people, and has even killed some by cutting impoverished citizens off from government services, predatory financial and credit institutions see the technology as the perfect means for capitalizing on untapped and developing markets.

A September 2021 report by BankservAfrica, the largest automated digital payments clearinghouse in Africa, which is headed by former executives at MasterCard, VISA, and IBM, urged South Africa to adopt a biometric digital ID system.

The report proclaimed, “The time has come for consumers, investors, and the private and public sectors to work collectively to achieve the common goal of enabling a robust, secure, and trusted digital identity for South Africa.”

BankServAfrica’s digital payment platform is currently being tested in Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania with financial support from the World Bank, USAID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown just how critical a digital ID is,” BankServAfrica’s Chief Business Officer insisted.

BankservAfrica’s report argued that a robust biometric digital ID system will help South Africa achieve “simpler FICA [credit score] processes” and “a fair, transparent, competitive, sustainable, responsible, efficient and effective consumer credit market.”

But behind the lofty neoliberal rhetoric deployed by the financial industry lies a sordid record of profiteering and privacy invasion on a massive scale.

In 2007, Vodafone and Safaricom launched mPesa, a system that allows users to digitally deposit, withdraw, transfer, and pay with money. The project was “able to make credit and growth capital available to millions of people who have never had access to credit before,” according to Areiel Wolanow, who led the team that designed and built the credit scoring engine for mPesa in Kenya.

But a study by economist Alan Gibson revealed that it was the financial sector – not the rural population of the Global South – that truly benefited from mPesa. Meanwhile, the living conditions of the system’s mostly impoverished participants failed to improve at all:

“What is indisputable is that the supply-side of the finance market has benefited greatly from the last ten years. Banks’ sales have increased by 2.5 times and profits by 3.5 times, with profit margins also increased; the inclusion years have undoubtedly been good years for the banks. This apparent contrast between conspicuous supply-side success and a still-poor economy … raises questions on the role of the finance sector. In particular, it begs questions on who/what it is there to serve, and on the incentives that drive behavior.”

In a further indictment of supposedly “inclusive” digital payment schemes, the Review of African Political Economy found that “the bulk of this [mPesa] value does not go to the poor. Rather, such fintech is very clearly designed to hoover up value and deposit it into the hands of a narrow global digital-financial elite that are the main forces behind the fintech revolution.”

Despite the evidence of widening inequality, Bill Gates – whose foundation spends hundreds of billions of dollars promoting digital financial services for the poor – gushed praise for mPesa.

“M-Pesa is an excellent program,” Gates effused on Twitter in one of several tweets hailing the digital payments system.

Gates linked to an article promoting the program by NPR, the US public broadcaster which has received upwards of $17.5 million from Gates while producing hundreds of articles praising the tech billionaire and his initiatives around the world.

Back in the US, meanwhile, Gates’ ID2020 campaign has collaborated with the forces advancing a system that registers Americans’ vaccination status with the same corporation that calculates their financial credit score.

The US credit industry and digital immunity ID outfits collaborate on “huge opportunities for the commercial sector”

In Illinois, residents are currently required to verify that they have received the COVID-19 vaccine through an online portal called Vax Verify which will work in concert with Chicago’s soon-to-be-implemented vaccine passport.

To register their proof of vaccination, Illinois residents must turn to Experian, the world’s leading credit score service.

Already, the Vax Verify portal is facing backlash for providing inaccurate vaccine status information. It is also the subject of serious security concerns given Experian’s record of breaches that leaked the personal data of millions of citizens from Brazil to South Africa.

Further, the online portal requires that any resident with a freeze on their credit must unfreeze it with Experian before registering a vaccination.

“Using Experian is definitely one of the worst [vaccine passports] I’ve seen yet,” Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Engineering Alexis Hancock commented to Yahoo News.

After Illinois became the first US state to forge a formal relationship between vaccine certifications and Experian, Illinois Congressman and financial industry darling Bill Foster introduced legislation that would foist a digital biometric ID onto the entire American population.

The Improving Digital Identity Act of 2021, introduced by Foster in July, calls for the public sector, and particularly the Department of Homeland Security, to work with the private sector to develop a new biometric digital ID infrastructure for the United States.

In November 2020, the Gates-sponsored ID2020 provided an online forum for Foster to promote his bill. During the event, the congressman advocated for a “trusted biometric digital immunity certificate system” while explaining that his bill would obtain biometrics from every citizen so private corporations could then “leverage” it to generate enormous profits.

Rep. Bill Foster headlined the Gates-backed ID2020’s November 2020 webinar

“Once the government has [taken] those fairly serious biometrics from you – there will be huge opportunities for the commercial sector to leverage that,” he said. “And to try to get this all started, I introduced the ‘Improving Digital ID Act.’”

Banking and credit card companies are among the many “commercial sectors” that Foster’s bill will benefit through digital biometric IDs. The bill plainly states that the corporate ID system will give “under-banked and unbanked individuals better access to digital financial services,” cloaking the opening of markets for finance giants in the same woke language that ID4D and ID2020 employ.

But as tech oligarchs and their partners in the financial and national security industries leverage the coronavirus epidemic to institute a lucrative apparatus of digital monitoring, dissent is erupting in the countries where vaccine passports have begun to exclude millions.

Protests erupt against vaccine passports and “people who have very little to do with parliament”

In New York City – ground zero of the US vaccination passport roll-out – where over 80 percent of all Covid social distancing arrests were conducted against Black residents in 2020, simmering tensions boiled over when three Black diners initiated a brawl with staff at Carmine’s, an Upper West Side restaurant that prevented them from dining without their vaccination proof.

The incident spurred condemnation from a local Black Lives Matter chapter, which accused city authorities of exploiting mask mandates and vaccine passports to exclude and incarcerate Black residents. “What we are seeing here is the NYPD and restaurants using vaccination proof as a reason to discriminate against Black people,” declared BLM activist Kimberly Bernard.

France has been the site of some of the world’s largest protests against the vaccine passport system imposed under the watch of former banker and President Emanuel Macron. On August 14, over 210,000 people took to the streets in over 200 protests across France against the nascent biomedical security regime.

Puncturing the corporate media’s pigeonholing of the demonstrators as far-right shock troops, France’s Le Monde described them as “alone, coupled up, here with their family or friends, of all ages, white, Black, employed, retired, some vaccinated, others who refuse to get the shot.”

French journalist Pauline Bock noted that in her country, “the only trade that’s exempt from mandatory vaccination — the police — will be the one to make sure everyone else obeys. The policy is ripe for authoritarian misuse.”

In Italy, meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister and former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has mandated that all employees of both public and private businesses produce a Green Pass proving vaccination in order to enter their place of work.

The Green Pass vaccine passport system has already excluded unvaccinated individuals from restaurants, gyms, as well as trains, buses and domestic flights across the country. Official government numbers show the pass has failed to increase vaccine uptake.

With the expansion of the Green Pass to places of work, Italians have risen up in some of the largest protests the world has seen against the nascent biosecurity regime.

On October 9, hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into Italian streets from Rome to Trento to voice their rejection of Draghi’s policy. In Rome, where police repressed peaceful demonstrators with batons and riot shields, a group of about 20 far-right hooligans attacked a local union office while police stood by. Interior Minister Carlo Sibilia exploited the incident to claim that “neo-fascist groups hide behind the so-called anti-vaxxers.”

The secretary of a faction of Italy’s Communist Party, Marco Rizzo, who has condemned the passport system as “a discriminatory, divisive tool that pits one against the other,” cast suspicion on the incident.

In an October 10 statement, Rizzo warned that the incident of “fascist violence” the day before played directly into the hands of the neoliberal government, and questioned whether a new “strategy of tension” was in play. The communist leader was referring to the Italian state’s covert weaponization of far-right militants during the 1970’s “years of lead” to foment violence and neutralize Marxist organizations.

The demonstrations have now spread to the port city of Trieste, where union dock workers have refused to offload goods until the Green Pass is revoked. On October 18, Italian police attempted to break the workers’ strike with water cannons, tear gas, and heavy repression.

Two days before anti-Green Pass protests exploded across Italy, the renowned philosopher Giorgio Agamben appeared before the Italian Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Commission to issue a dramatic statement of opposition to the Green Pass.

Agamben is most famous for his concept of Homo Sacer, or bare life, in which an individual is stripped of rights and reduced to their biological essence in an extra-legal regime justified by war or other emergencies. When Italian authorities declared the first lockdown in March 2020, the philosopher applied the theory to his own country’s heavy-handed restrictions.

“The defining feature…of this great transformation that they are attempting to impose is that the mechanism which renders it formally possible is not a new body of laws, but a state of exception – in other words, not an affirmation of, but the suspension of constitutional guarantees,” the philosopher explained in the foreword to his collection of 2020 writings on Covid-19, “Where Are We Now: The Epidemic As Politics,”

In his remarks before the Italian Senate, Agamben pointed to a sinister agenda behind the official rationale for vaccine passports: “It has been said by scientists and doctors that the Green Pass has no medical significance in itself but serves to force people to get vaccinated. Instead, I think we must say the opposite: that the vaccine is a means of forcing people to have the Green Pass. That is, a device that allows individuals to be monitored and tracked, an unprecedented measure.”

The philosopher concluded his address by taking aim at the supra-national forces – Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, and Rockefeller Foundation, among others – determined to impose a system of digital identification and high-tech social credit as much of the human population as possible.

“I believe that in this perspective,” Agamben warned, “it is more urgent than ever for parliamentarians to consider the political transformation underway, which in the long run is destined to empty parliament of its powers, reducing it to simply approving – in the name of bio-security – decrees emanating from organizations and people who have very little to do with parliament.

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Treatment Protocols for COVID-19: An Overview

Posted on January 17, 2022 by mekorganic

Treatment Protocols for COVID-19: An Overview

Two years into the global pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, there is scant guidance from government agencies, universities, or professional medical organizations to help individuals recover from the SARS-CoV-2 infection that causes COVID-19 without the need for hospitalization.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommends monoclonal antibodies for high-risk individuals and fever reducing medication, hydration and rest for those who are not hospitalized, refers both patients and health care providers to federal treatment guidelines.¹ The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides a comprehensive treatment guideline for COVID that makes a “moderate” recommendation for monoclonal antibodies for high-risk individuals, and recommends fluids, rest, and over-the-counter medications for fever, headache, muscle pain and cough for those who are not hospitalized.²

Both the CDC and NIH discourage the use of any other licensed drugs or neutraceuticals in post-exposure prevention or pre-exposure prophylaxis for SARS-CoV-2 infections except for individuals participating in clinical trials.

The home treatment guide for COVID from the prestigious Mayo Clinic focuses on preventing spread and recognizing emergency warning signs requiring intervention or hospitalization. However, that widely trusted source for medical guidance offers little in the way of supportive therapies that might prevent worsening of disease symptoms.³

Although the recovery rate for SARS-COV-2 infections is between 97 and 99.5 percent,⁴ and most people recover without hospitalization, there are currently 125,922 people hospitalized with COVID in the U.S., and numbers are on an upward trend.⁵ Recent estimates of costs associated with inpatient treatment for COVID average from $31,339 to $472,213 per person, depending upon the severity of the case.⁶ Federal data shows the emergency department visits with diagnosed COVID cases are currently at their highest point of the pandemic—a figure that has more than doubled over the last month. “Admissions with COVID is still very disruptive to the health care system, at a time when it can’t afford more disruption,” stressed Ashish Jha, MD, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health in a recent tweet.⁷

Failure to Treat COVID Patients Early at Home a “Calamity”

In testimony before Congress in November 2020, Peter McCullough, MD, vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and professor of medicine at Texas A&M University, urged the government to prod federal agencies to assist doctors with early treatment options, before COVID patients require hospital treatment “because we can prevent hospitalization and death.” He went on:

I can’t think of a single viral infection where the best advice is to wait two weeks before we start treatment in the hospital. That is the current NIH recommendation. Americans are appalled by this. We always treat serious viral infections with multiple drugs up front, early. These are principles of treatment.” Americans, he warned, were going to be horrified by “a national calamity of unimaginable mortality…⁸

Monoclonal Antibodies: Benefits and Risks

Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-made proteins that were designed to mimic the immune system’s natural response to harmful pathogens such as viruses, and are administered to patients via IV infusions (on an outpatient or in-hospital basis). Drug companies were given Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2020 to distribute monoclonal antibodies in the U.S. for treatment of COVID.⁹

Some studies have shown that monoclonal antibodies can dramatically reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID. However, many patients who qualify for the treatment say their doctors never mentioned it to them, even though it has been nearly a year since antibodies were first authorized and they remain the only federally approved early treatment for early COVID.¹⁰

At a White House briefing in August 2021, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) urged doctors to use monoclonal antibodies more frequently. He said that they can reduce the risk of COVID hospitalization or death by 70 to 85 percent. “This is a very effective intervention for COVID-19.  It is underutilized, and we recommend strongly that we utilize this to its fullest,” Dr. Fauci said. “We want people out there, including physicians, as well as potential patients, to realize the advantage of this very effective way of treating early infection.” When asked by CNN why more doctors and health centers aren’t getting antibodies to their COVID patients, Dr. Fauci said, “I can’t explain that.”¹¹

The federal government purchased $2.9 billion worth of the monoclonal antibodies to ease supply issues in September 2021¹² but problems have persisted. “It’s unconscionable,” said Peter Chin-Hong, MD, an infectious disease expert and professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. “We have an evidence-based drug, and it’s provided free by the government, but there are barriers built into the system to get it.”¹³

While a number of doctors have successfully treated COVID with monoclonal antibodies, there have been reported infusion-related reactions to activation of the immune system by the monoclonal antibodies, such as flushing, itching, shortness of breath and low blood pressure,¹⁴ and there is a possibility of immediate or delayed serious adverse events, including cytokine release syndrome, acute anaphylaxis, serum sickness, infections, cancer, autoimmune disease and cardiotoxicity.¹⁵ ¹⁶ There is uncertainty about whether the currently available monoclonal antibodies are effective in treating the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.¹⁷

Physicians Create Effective Early Treatment Protocols

In the absence of effective home-based treatment guidance for COVID from the U.S. government health agencies, the nation’s leading medical centers, or professional medical organizations, a number of highly credentialed and widely published critical care physicians and front line doctors working in hospitals and outpatient clinics have organized to collect and share their experience and research to develop lifesaving protocols for the prevention and treatment of COVID in all stages of illness.

The most widely known home-based treatment protocols have been published by Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance, Truth for Health (TFH), and the World Council for Health (WCH). The COVID treatment protocols include repurposed FDA-licensed pharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals, and over-the-counter (OTC) medications.

Although each protocol varies somewhat, they all contain combinations that serve to act as anti-viral (nasal rinses/mouthwash gargle, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, nebulized colloidal silver, nitazoxamide), anti-inflammatory (ibuprofen, aspirin, NAC, antihistamines, corticosteroids, budesonide inhaler, loratadine, fomatidine, colchicine, naproxen, promethazine), anti-coagulant (aspirin, prescription blood thinners), immune support (Vitamins D and C, zinc, quercetin, melatonin, glutathione, NAC, Omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin B complex, lactoferrin, nigella sativa, curcumin, neem, Lugol’s iodine), and symptom support (antihistamines, acetaminiphin, NAC, cough mixtures, nasal spray, ginger, honey, and nebulized solutions).

All three protocols emphasize the importance of initiating supportive care early in the course of infection to reduce viral replication and worsening of symptoms.

Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance Protocol

Paul Marik, MD, among the most highly published critical care physicians in the world, is formerly Director of the ICU at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Using a protocol he and others called MATH+, he reported a 50 percent reduction in COVID deaths in the ICU in early 2020.¹⁸ ¹⁹ MATH is an anacronym for the components Methylprednisolone, Ascorbic acid, Thiamin, and Heparin, with the “+” indicating a few other medicines, such as melatonin, zinc, and vitamin D3 to be added based on the high safety, low cost, and emerging scientific data suggesting efficacy.²⁰

Dr. Marik, together with Keith Berkowitz, MD, Fred Wagshul, MD, Pierre Kory, MD, Flavio Cadegiani, MD, PhD, and Joseph Varon, MD formed a group now called the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance. The MATH+ protocol was published in the peer reviewed journal Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy in February 2021 and has been used globally to effectively treat patients with COVID-19.²¹ Reportedly, FLCCC’s MATH+ protocol is generally well tolerated and has not generated reports of serious adverse medical events.²²

In October 2020, the FLCCC Alliance developed a prophylaxis and early treatment protocol centered around the drug ivermectin. This became the I-MASK+ Prophylaxis and At-home Treatment Protocol for COVID.²³ ²⁴ In addition to ivermectin (or, alternately, nigella sativa), the I-MASK+ protocol includes a daily gargle of antiseptic mouthwash that contains either cetylpyridinium chloride, chlorhexidine, 1 percent povidone iodine, or Listerine with essential oils and povidone-iodine nasal spray/drops to reduce viral replication in the nose and throat. Immune fortifying/supportive therapies include vitamin D3, vitamin C, quercetin, elemental zinc, turmeric, and melatonin, with aspirin as an anti-coagulant. The doctors have recommended monitoring oxygen saturation with a pulse oximeter. They have also used second line agents (spironolactone, dutasteride, fluvoxamine, and monoclonal antibodies) and include prednisone or methylprednisone as third line agents.

The FLCCC Alliance has also developed a protocol for treating Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS) and post vaccine inflammatory syndromes called I-RECOVER.²⁵ The I-RECOVER basic protocol centers around ivermectin, vitamin C, Omega-3 fatty acids, atorvastatin, melatonin and vitamin D3. Corticosteroid therapy or fluvoxamine (for neurological symptoms) are also part of the protocol if symptoms are more prolonged and, if Long Haul COVID symptoms remain unresolved, they have included a pulmonary evaluation and treatment of suspected mast cell activation.

The FLCCC Alliance website contains COVID-19 treatment protocols available in twelve languages with supporting clinical evidence for safety and effectiveness.

Truth for Health Protocol

The Truth for Health Home-Based COVID Treatment protocol²⁶ ²⁷ is based on the understanding that different medicines are needed for the three different stages of COVID: viral replication days 1-5; exaggerated inflammation response days 5-10; and exaggerated formation of blood clots up to 30 days. Using a decision tree based on a combination of age and the number of comorbid conditions, as well as progression of illness, treatment is focused on stopping viral replication and containing illness to the first stage. The protocol begins with a neutraceutical bundle of zinc, vitamin D3, vitamin C and quercetin.

Further intervention may include monoclonal antibodies and a combination of either hydroxycloroquine, ivermectin or favipiravir, plus antibiotics. Monitoring with a pulse oximeter is recommended, with supplemental oxygen as needed.

TFH also has a protocol for hospital treatment, Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome, and vaccine injury.

The TFH medical team and executive team includes Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD; Peter McCullough, MD, PhD; Michael Yeadon, PhD; Paul Alexander, PhD; Alan Moy, MD; Richard Blumrick, MD; Raphael Stricker, MD; Harpal Mangat, MD; Deirdre Byrne, MD; Howard Tenenbaum, DDS; and Rodger Hodkinson, MA, MB, BChir (Cantab).

Protocol of World Council for Health

The WCH is an umbrella organization of multinational groups of doctors, scientists, medicine journalists and other civil society members advocating for the right to good health. They ensure health care transparency through common-sense education and advocacy, independently integrating evidence from different qualitative and quantitative sources. As their name implies, WCH has a more global focus. The safe, established and patent-free medicines and supplements included in their guide may have differing availability around the world, so they provide many choices in each category.²⁸

Expensive new drugs (such as monoclonal antibody treatments) are not part of the protocol. WCH recommends having on hand a temperature thermometer, pulse oximeter, and a nebulizer to deliver solutions such as saline, colloidal silver or sodium bicarbonate.

The WCH guide, which features easy-to-understand text, color detail and graphics, includes explanations for different treatments and how they work with the goal of empowering the reader to make an informed choice. Their guide contains information not conveyed in other protocols, such as warning that acetaminaphin/paracetamol should be used sparingly in COVID treatment because it reduces glutathione, an important antioxidant, and that ivermectin has blood-thinning properties, which may interfere with other blood thinning medications. The WCH also provides home treatment options.

The latest guide was reviewed by Tess Lawrie, MD, Ph.D.; Peter McCullough, MD, MPH; Pierre Kory, MD, MPA; and Naseeba Kathrada, MD.

The Role of Zinc Ionophores

Controversy has surrounded the use of the drug ivermectin²⁹ and other zinc ionophores (substances that push zinc into cells where it can reduce viral replication) such as hydroxychloroquine, quercetin, epigallocatechin and pyrithione in the treatment of COVID.³⁰ Three randomized controlled trials–ACTIV-6 at Duke University, COVID-OUT at the University of Minnesota,³¹ and PRINCIPLE at Oxford University,³² are currently underway to evaluate ivermectin as a treatment for COVID.

A meta-analysis published in August 2021³³ concluded that there was moderate-certainty evidence for large reductions in COVID deaths using ivermectin. The study authors concluded that using ivermectin early in the clinical course of COVID disease may reduce the numbers of cases progressing to severe disease, and that the apparent safety and low cost suggests that the use of ivermectin is likely to have a significant positive impact on reducing morbidity and mortality in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

A June 2020 systematic review published in the medical journal Antibiotics³⁴ identified ivermectin as having “antimicrobial, antiviral and anti-cancer properties.” The authors stated that the drug “is highly effective against many microorganisms including some viruses,” and pointed out:

Ivermectin has been used for several years to treat many infectious diseases in mammals. It has a good safety profile with low adverse effects when orally prescribed. Ivermectin was identified in late 1970s and first approved for animal use in 1981. Its potential use in humans was confirmed a few years later. Subsequently, William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura who discovered and developed this medication received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Over the past 50 years, ivermectin has been found to be effective in treating a long list of diseases caused by DNA and RNA viruses, including malaria, and many countries have adopted the broad spectrum and low cost drug as one of the first-line treatment options for COVID.³⁵

Metabolic Syndrome Ignored As Risk Factor In COVID-19 Response

Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine³⁶ demonstrated that metabolic syndrome (obesity, type 2 diabetes, and/or hypertension) is associated with an increased risk for intensive care unit (ICU) admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), mortality, and with prolonged hospital and ICU length of stay. “Given the high rates of metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes in the United States, one hypothesis for why the United States led the world in COVID cases and deaths could be the high prevalence of metabolic syndrome in this population,” the authors write.³⁷

A study published in the November 2021³⁸ reported that up to 50 percent of people who have died of COVID had metabolic and vascular disorders, and that body mass index is strongly correlated with immune markers that predict severe COVID. The authors concluded, “It would be a progressive failure not to respond to this alarm signal and change our strategies to help to prevent diabetes and obesity with societal measures, diagnose metabolic syndromes as early as possible, focus on diabetes remission rather than progressive and expensive treatment, and individualize diabetes management to meet sustainable prevention of complications by use of all available evidence and technology.” They went on, “The non-communicable pandemic of metabolic disease due to diabetes and obesity, affecting 0·5 billion people worldwide, could be considered as the foundation for the communicable COVID pandemic, which has disproportionately affected this patient group.”

A study at the Cleveland Clinic³⁹ published in December 2021 compared obese patients who had previously had bariatric (weight loss) surgery with those who had not, and found that the rate of infection was similar between the groups, but patients who had weight-loss surgery had a 49 percent lower risk of hospitalization, a 63 percent lower risk of the need for supplemental oxygen and a 60 percent lower risk of developing severe COVID. “This study suggests that an emphasis on weight loss as a public health strategy can improve outcomes during the COVID pandemic and future outbreaks or related infectious diseases,” noted Steven Nissen, MD, chief academic officer of the Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. “That is a very important finding, considering that 40 percent of Americans have obesity.”

Despite the contribution of obesity and metabolic disorders to the disease burden of COVID, weight loss and prevention of metabolic disorders are not currently part of any published COVID public health policy.

Vaccination Under Emergency Use Authorization Not Allowed If Adequate Treatments Are Available

During a public health emergency, the FDA can use its authority to issue an EUA to pharmaceutical companies to distribute unapproved medical products in the U.S., as well as give the green light to unapproved uses of already licensed medical products to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases when certain criteria are met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.⁴⁰

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Reuters Covid-19 Fact Check

Posted on January 17, 2022 by mekorganic

Reuters Covid-19 Fact Check

[MEK Note: Reuters and most all Fact Check sites are run by large media corporations. They have a vested interest to counter those who try to buck corporate narrative and censorship! They like to counter statements that avoid or have little to do with the facts exposed by reputable critics! They even create crazy statements to fact check or play with wording to avoid directly dealing with any unwanted truths. I am not a true expert on Covid-19 yet, but as a true expert on 9/11 I have seen fact checks that ignore reputable 9/11 experts and use the government as the final source for the truth. It is like using an accused murderer as the final expert in determining what happened!]

Fact Check – COVID–19 is not a common cold

… to the virus as SARS-CoV-2, rather than COVID–19. The second… with the intent of showing COVID–19 is merely a common cold ( https://twitter.com…

MARCH 17, 2020 10:59AM EDT

Fact Check-Viagra is not an established cure for COVID–19

…Corrects typo in headline By Reuters FactCheck Viagra… is not a proven cure for COVID–19, contrary to suggestions made in response…

JANUARY 13, 2022 01:03PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines are not a ‘depopulation plan’

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts sharing information that COVID–19…/article/uk-factcheck-vaccine/fact–check-document-does-not-show-the-covid–19…

JULY 09, 2021 03:21PM EDT

Fact check: COVID–19 is not a hoax to eliminate Trump

… the verdict. A video falsely claiming that COVID–19 was planned to remove U.S… of the primary allegations. THE COVID–19 PANDEMIC WAS PLANNED…

NOVEMBER 12, 2020 03:03PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts are sharing the false statement… that the spike protein in COVID–19 vaccines is cytotoxic, suggesting…

JUNE 18, 2021 02:20PM EDT

Fact Check-There is still no evidence of a COVID–19 conspiracy

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing videos… of British citizens presenting alleged evidence of COVID–19 fraud to police…

JUNE 22, 2021 11:17AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines did not increase COVID–19 deaths

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-reduce/fact–check–covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are comparing the number…

OCTOBER 01, 2021 02:44PM EDT

Fact Check-Bill Gates did not call for the withdrawal of COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing content… for the withdrawal of COVID–19 vaccines. The claim originated from a satire…

SEPTEMBER 09, 2021 04:21PM EDT

Fact Check-Anti-COVID–19 vaccine cartoon contains false information

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-vaccines/corrected-fact–check–covid–19…/factcheck-vaers-12000/fact–check-vaers-data-does-not-prove-covid–19…

AUGUST 02, 2021 03:41PM EDT

Fact Check-Sainsbury’s supermarkets are not installing COVID–19 passport technology

…By Reuters FactCheck British supermarket Sainsbury’s says it has… no plans to introduce COVID–19 pass policies in any of its stores…

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 09:46AM EST

Fact Check-1963 movie did not predict the Omicron COVID–19 variant

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims that the 1963 movie ‘Omicron’ predicted… for an alien invasion has no connection to COVID–19…

DECEMBER 03, 2021 04:34PM EST

Fact Check-Meme features outdated COVID–19 fatality and case numbers

…By Reuters FactCheck An infographic shared on social media does… not provide accurate information on COVID–19 death rates for the U.S…

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 10:11AM EDT

Fact Check-Australian hospitals are not treating vaccinated COVID–19 patients with ivermectin

…By Reuters FactCheck A claim on social media that Australian… hospitals are treating vaccinated COVID–19 patients with anti-parasitic drug…

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 06:12AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccine was not being developed before the outbreak

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a document from…. government knew about COVID–19 before its first outbreak…

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 03:39PM EDT

Fact Check-UK coroner said Wayne Smith died of COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media has been flooded with rumours… as suspicious, and a UK coroner told Reuters he died of COVID–19…

AUGUST 18, 2021 06:25AM EDT

Fact Check-Delta power company unconnected to COVID–19 variant

…-5g/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-are-not-a-ploy-to-connect-people-to-5g…By Reuters FactCheck 5G equipment produced by the energy provider…

AUGUST 06, 2021 05:10AM EDT

Fact Check-Delta variant did not come from the COVID–19 vaccine

… check article on how vaccination efforts do not cause new COVID–19…/article/factcheck-delta-covid/fact–check-the-delta-variant-does-exist…

JULY 20, 2021 03:14PM EDT

Fact Check-Homemade hydroxychloroquine should not be used to treat COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Homemade hydroxychloroquine is not medically… and others touted hydroxychloroquine as a possible cure for COVID–19…

JULY 16, 2021 02:10PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines considered safe for children

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a video which… contains claims that COVID–19 vaccines are not safe for children…

JANUARY 06, 2022 07:21AM EST

Fact Check-Why those with comorbidities are still counted as COVID–19 deaths

…/article/uk-factcheck-94-percent-covid-among-caus/fact–check-94…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users have this month cited…

JANUARY 14, 2022 01:36PM EST

Fact check: Footage shows Kamala Harris receiving COVID–19 vaccination

… that claims Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s COVID–19 vaccination…/983412232480923/ . Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received a COVID–19…

JANUARY 05, 2021 04:19PM EST

Fact Check-FDA did not recall all COVID–19 PCR tests

…-test/fact–check-cdc-lab-update-on-covid–19-pcr-tests-misinterpreted…By Reuters FactCheck Users on social media are interpreting…

JULY 29, 2021 11:42AM EDT

Fact Check-Merck’s experimental COVID–19 antiviral drug is not ‘repackaged ivermectin’

… – not molnupiravir. By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users have been saying… that Merck’s experimental COVID–19 antiviral product molnupiravir…

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 03:54AM EST

Fact Check-Baby in video was not injured as a result of COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck Online claims that an infant was injured… as a result of a COVID–19 vaccine are false. Video shared in the claims…

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 12:10PM EDT

Fact Check-Pfizer’s trial COVID–19 drug is not the same as ivermectin

…By Reuters FactCheck An article shared hundreds of times on social… media claims a new COVID–19 preventative drug being trialed by Pfizer…

OCTOBER 05, 2021 12:40PM EDT

Fact Check-Fauci did not say COVID–19 vaccines are spreading disease

…. Reuters FactCheck previously debunked the claim that the COVID–19…-health-coronavirus/fact–check-there-is-no-evidence-to-suggest-covid–19…

AUGUST 12, 2021 11:41AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence that COVID–19 vaccines affect male fertility

…By Reuters FactCheck A series of tweets posted by Scottish… not been vaccinated against COVID–19 have more valuable sperm than those…

DECEMBER 15, 2021 11:40AM EST

Fact Check-Alberta court case not linked to lifting of COVID–19 restrictions

…-isolated/fact–check-the-virus-that-causes-covid–19-has-been-isolated…By Reuters FactCheck Videos being shared online falsely suggest…

AUGUST 07, 2021 02:33PM EDT

Fact Check-Healthy lifestyles do not guarantee protection against COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Eating healthily and exercising do… from COVID–19 infection, despite claims in some social media posts…

AUGUST 09, 2021 01:51PM EDT

Fact Check-Bill Gates did not say COVID–19 vaccines are ineffective

…By Reuters FactCheck A snippet of an interview with Bill Gates has… the billionaire philanthropist “admitted” that COVID–19 vaccines are not very…

NOVEMBER 16, 2021 01:53PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines do not contain graphene oxide

…By Reuters FactCheck Online reports that COVID–19 vaccines contain… not listed in any of the widely available COVID–19 vaccines worldwide…

JULY 23, 2021 10:46AM EDT

Fact Check-‘Post-pandemic stress disorder’ not caused by COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck A rise in heart conditions as a result of “post… is not related to COVID–19 vaccines, one of them told Reuters…

DECEMBER 27, 2021 10:30AM EST

Fact Check-Baby in TikTok clip was born before COVID–19 vaccinations

…By Reuters FactCheck A viral TikTok showing a newborn holding… was vaccinated against COVID–19. The mother told Reuters her baby was healthy…

OCTOBER 11, 2021 12:47PM EDT

Fact Check-A 1957 comic strip did not predict the COVID–19 pandemic

… comic printing company. By Reuters FactCheck A digitally altered version… The Phantom predicted the COVID–19 pandemic…

NOVEMBER 29, 2021 02:56PM EST

Fact Check-Merck’s experimental COVID–19 antiviral drug is not ‘repackaged ivermectin’

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users have been saying… that Merck’s experimental COVID–19 antiviral product molnupiravir…

OCTOBER 07, 2021 04:30PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 Delta variant is real; brain waves are unrelated

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts saying the Delta variant of the COVID–19…/factcheck-variants-covid/fact–check-coronavirus-variants-are-real…

JULY 13, 2021 05:23PM EDT

Fact Check-CDC lab update on COVID–19 PCR tests misinterpreted

…By Reuters FactCheck New guidelines from the U.S. Centers… failed to differentiate between COVID–19 and Influenza, as users online…

JULY 28, 2021 03:39PM EDT

Fact Check-False claim about migrants and COVID–19 variants

…, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/06/fact–check–covid…By Reuters FactCheck Posts shared over 65,000 times on Facebook make…

AUGUST 10, 2021 11:03AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 scenarios are not modelled to suit specific outcomes

…By Reuters FactCheck A Twitter conversation between a journalist… about COVID–19 modelling scenarios. See the full exchange https…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 10:31AM EST

Fact Check-No evidence COVID–19 vaccines cause cancer

…By Reuters FactCheck A talk show host tied to the conspiracy-theory… COVID–19 vaccines with cancer. Owen…

NOVEMBER 12, 2021 03:13PM EST

Fact Check-La vacuna del COVID–19 no altera el ADN

…- Por Reuters FactCheck 13 jul (Reuters… contra el COVID–19 tiene la capacidad de alterar el ADN de los seres…

JULY 22, 2021 04:49PM EDT

Fact Check-The U.S. prescribes ivermectin to refugees for parasitic worms, not COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Outrage has spread online that Afghan refugees… it does not have U.S. approval as a COVID–19 treatment. However…

SEPTEMBER 04, 2021 07:06AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence that ‘urine therapy’ cures COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck An anti-vaccine activist is claiming… that consuming urine is the “antidote” to the COVID–19 virus…

JANUARY 12, 2022 12:41PM EST

Fact Check-Astroworld deaths not triggered by COVID–19 vaccines

…-toxic-pfizer-covid–19/, https://apnews.com/article/fact–checking…By Reuters FactCheck Following the death of at least eight people…

NOVEMBER 09, 2021 09:38AM EST

Fact Check-Indigenous Australians are not being forcibly vaccinated against COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Unsubstantiated allegations about indigenous… Australians being forcibly vaccinated against COVID–19 have been…

DECEMBER 02, 2021 10:32AM EST

Fact Check-The Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID–19 vaccine was not created in 2018

…By Reuters FactCheck A doctored photo of a COVID–19 Oxford… that the company had not created packaging for its COVID–19 vaccine…

JULY 29, 2021 05:02AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 patient had virus, not a crisis actor

…By Reuters FactCheck A resurfaced BBC interview with a man who… was admitted to hospital in July 2021 with COVID–19 has been used…

DECEMBER 30, 2021 06:17AM EST

Fact Check-Most cases of myocarditis after COVID–19 vaccines are not irreversible

…By Reuters FactCheck Medical experts on the basis of evidence so far… the COVID–19 vaccine is irreversible. Social media claims that “over…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 12:59PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines are not a ploy to connect people to 5G

…By Reuters FactCheck Memes sharing the message that COVID–19…/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid–19/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov…

JULY 15, 2021 01:52PM EDT

Fact Check-A fake set was not created for Biden’s COVID–19 booster shot

…_ By Reuters FactCheck A misleading claim is circulating on social… for COVID–19 on a ‘fake White House set…

OCTOBER 08, 2021 01:17PM EDT

Fact Check-False claim about migrants and COVID–19 variants

…, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/06/fact–check–covid…By Reuters FactCheck Posts shared over 65,000 times on Facebook make…

AUGUST 10, 2021 11:03AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence COVID–19 vaccines cause cancer

…By Reuters FactCheck A talk show host tied to the conspiracy-theory… COVID–19 vaccines with cancer. Owen…

NOVEMBER 12, 2021 03:13PM EST

Fact Check-Astroworld deaths not triggered by COVID–19 vaccines

…-toxic-pfizer-covid–19/, https://apnews.com/article/fact–checking…By Reuters FactCheck Following the death of at least eight people…

NOVEMBER 09, 2021 09:38AM EST

Fact Check-Royal Ascot was a UK COVID–19 test pilot

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have shared images… of revellers at the Royal Ascot races as evidence that COVID–19 rules do…

JUNE 23, 2021 11:26AM EDT

Fact Check-Indigenous Australians are not being forcibly vaccinated against COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Unsubstantiated allegations about indigenous… Australians being forcibly vaccinated against COVID–19 have been…

DECEMBER 02, 2021 10:32AM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 patient had virus, not a crisis actor

…By Reuters FactCheck A resurfaced BBC interview with a man who… was admitted to hospital in July 2021 with COVID–19 has been used…

DECEMBER 30, 2021 06:17AM EST

Fact Check-Most cases of myocarditis after COVID–19 vaccines are not irreversible

…By Reuters FactCheck Medical experts on the basis of evidence so far… the COVID–19 vaccine is irreversible. Social media claims that “over…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 12:59PM EST

Fact Check-Amish communities have been affected by the COVID–19 pandemic

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims on social media that the Amish… population has not been affected by COVID–19 are false. Such claims have been…

JUNE 17, 2021 12:01PM EDT

Fact Check-Whoopi Goldberg is not using a walker due to COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts claiming that actress and comedian Whoopi… the COVID–19 vaccine are false. Goldberg explained on The View, which she co…

JULY 01, 2021 02:25PM EDT

Fact Check-Satire video with fake commentary about COVID–19 at the Olympics

…By Reuters FactCheck Users are sharing a video of the opening… by the Reuters FactCheck team. Read more about our fact–checking work  https…

JULY 28, 2021 01:23PM EDT

Fact Check-Cartoon is not a prediction of the COVID–19 pandemic from the 1930s

…By Reuters FactCheck Users are sharing a black and white cartoon…://cartoonresearch.com/). Reuters FactCheck debunked…

JULY 27, 2021 02:43PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines are authorized by the FDA for emergency use

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts saying COVID–19 vaccines are not approved…-trials/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-did-have-clinical-trials…

JUNE 01, 2021 10:34AM EDT

Fact Check-These four leaders were not killed for opposing COVID–19 vaccination

…Refiling to correct spelling of John Magufuli. By Reuters FactCheck… months were killed for opposing COVID–19 vaccinations…

JUNE 30, 2021 07:16AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence spike proteins from COVID–19 vaccines are toxic

…By Reuters FactCheck There is no proof that spike proteins created…/shows/on-point-with-alex-pierson/new-peer-reviewed-study-on-covid–19…

JUNE 15, 2021 10:55AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence vaccination efforts are causing new COVID–19 variants

…By Reuters FactCheck A video making the rounds on social media… claims that new variants of COVID–19 are forming to sidestep the antibodies…

JUNE 03, 2021 11:59AM EDT

Fact Check-Pictured microchip is unrelated to COVID–19 vaccine

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-needle-microchip/fact–check-needle…By Reuters FactCheck A photo of a microchip designed by Columbia…

MAY 28, 2021 07:56AM EDT

Fact Check-AstraZeneca’s COVID–19 vaccine does not contain a Bluetooth chip

…/uk-factcheck-microchip-not-injected-covi/fact–check–covid–19-vaccine…By Reuters FactCheck Posts sharing a video of a man allegedly…

MAY 25, 2021 03:43PM EDT

Fact Check-There is still no evidence that COVID–19 vaccines increase risk of miscarriage 

…By Reuters FactCheck A popular blogpost says there has been a 2000… to” expectant mothers receiving a COVID–19 vaccine. However, the country’s…

JUNE 07, 2021 01:08PM EDT

Fact Check–Fact check: Ex-Pfizer scientist repeats COVID–19 vaccine misinformation in recorded speech

…By Reuters FactCheck A former Pfizer scientist turned anti-vax…) in March this year estimated that 50% of COVID–19 transmission happens…

MAY 20, 2021 02:34PM EDT

Fact Check-Meme comparing COVID–19 and flu deaths downplays seriousness of the COVID–19 pandemic

…By Reuters FactCheck In what appears to be an attempt to downplay… the seriousness of the COVID–19 pandemic, a social media post has…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 10:04AM EDT

Fact Check-Biden did not get his COVID–19 booster shot ‘666 days’ after COVID–19 ‘began’

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to what social media posts claim, U.S…. President Joe Biden did not receive his COVID–19 booster shot “666…

OCTOBER 04, 2021 03:55PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 public health measures do not violate Nuremberg code, COVID–19 vaccines are not experimental

…-vaccines/corrected-fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-are-not-experimental…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are mentioning the Nuremberg…

DECEMBER 08, 2021 01:53PM EST

Fact Check-Videos do not show proof of COVID–19 fraud

…By Reuters FactCheck The COVID–19 pandemic is not a scam organised…/article/factcheck-covid-insurance/fact–check-face-masks-do-not-cause…

MAY 19, 2021 04:52AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence mRNA COVID–19 vaccines affect sperm

…-ingredients/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-do-not-alter-a-recipients-dna-and-u-s…/fact–check-available-covid–19-vaccines-are-not-linked-to-infertility…

MAY 17, 2021 04:44PM EDT

Fact Check-Meme comparing COVID–19 and flu deaths downplays seriousness of the COVID–19 pandemic

…By Reuters FactCheck In what appears to be an attempt to downplay… the seriousness of the COVID–19 pandemic, a social media post has…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 10:04AM EDT

Fact Check-Cigarettes are FDA regulated, not FDA approved

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-vaccines/corrected-fact–check–covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming…

AUGUST 30, 2021 03:34PM EDT

Fact Check-Death of Norfolk teenager unrelated to vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are claiming the unexpected… on social media alongside claims of children dying from COVID–19…

OCTOBER 20, 2021 03:49AM EDT

Fact Check-Animal Ivermectin should not be used on humans

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts on social media embracing the use… of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID–19 are misleading and go against…

AUGUST 12, 2021 12:57PM EDT

Fact Check-India’s second COVID–19 wave is not proof of an ineffective vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck The second wave of COVID–19 currently sweeping… the “Truth about India”, which plots the daily number of COVID–19 deaths…

MAY 11, 2021 05:25PM EDT

Fact Check-India’s second COVID–19 wave is not proof of an ineffective vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck The second wave of COVID–19 currently sweeping… the “Truth about India”, which plots the daily number of COVID–19 deaths…

MAY 11, 2021 05:25PM EDT

Fact Check-McDonald’s is not giving ‘experimental’ vaccines to children

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-vaccines/corrected-fact–check–covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Posts claiming McDonald’s is giving…

JULY 06, 2021 04:13PM EDT

Fact Check-Omicron is not the common cold ‘rebranded’

…By Reuters FactCheck The Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant is not the same… is a respiratory illness like COVID–19, it is caused by a different…

DECEMBER 10, 2021 11:57AM EST

Fact Check-People with asymptomatic COVID–19 in acute phase may later develop long COVID symptoms

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have falsely claimed… don’t initially have symptoms with COVID–19 may later develop ‘long…

JANUARY 10, 2022 12:22PM EST

Fact Check-Moderna’s COVID–19 vaccine does not contain luciferin or luciferase

…-vaccine-ingredients/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-do-not-contain… Check previously debunked social media posts falsely claiming COVID–19…

MAY 06, 2021 01:50PM EDT

Fact Check-The Simpsons episodes are not evidence of ‘predictive programing’

…By Reuters FactCheck A TikTok video claims The Simpsons episodes…. COVID–19…

AUGUST 16, 2021 02:57PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence over 48,000 people died within 14 days of receiving COVID–19 vaccine

…://www.snopes.com/fact–check/45000-people-die-covid–19-vaccine/ , https…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a speech made…

OCTOBER 08, 2021 12:00PM EDT

Fact Check-Video does not show Australian children with COVID–19 being separated from their parents

…By Reuters FactCheck Australian children who test positive for COVID… citizens (https://www.reuters.com/article/fact–check–covid-australia…

AUGUST 20, 2021 11:08AM EDT

Fact Check-Massachusetts COVID–19 deaths were not 45% among the fully vaccinated

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are falsely claiming… that 45% of COVID–19 deaths in the past week were in fully vaccinated…

OCTOBER 19, 2021 03:16PM EDT

Fact Check-The WHO did not ‘take a U-turn’ in COVID–19 recommendations

…://africacheck.org/fact–checks/fbchecks/ignore-false-claims-about-covid–19…-claims-about-covid–19-pandemic ) and Africa Check ( https…

APRIL 27, 2021 10:24AM EDT

Fact Check-Bill Gates video clip is about global elimination of COVID–19, not people

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a cropped clip… is talking about the global elimination of the COVID–19 virus…

JANUARY 14, 2022 11:50AM EST

Fact Check-Sylvester Stallone t-shirt altered to include message against COVID–19 vaccine and Biden

…By Reuters FactCheck An image of action movie star Sylvester… Stallone has been digitally altered to include a message against COVID–19…

JANUARY 13, 2022 02:06PM EST

Fact Check-Reports of 9,318 VAERS COVID–19 vaccine deaths do not prove causality

…-check-data-in-internet-posts-does-not-prove-covid–19-shots-cause-death…By Reuters FactCheck Posts are sharing numbers reported to the U.S…

JULY 26, 2021 11:43AM EDT

Fact Check-Website does not prove government ‘silently approved’ ivermectin as COVID–19 treatment

…. By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to social media claims, ivermectin… remains unapproved for the treatment of COVID–19 by U.S. health…

OCTOBER 27, 2021 11:58AM EDT

Fact Check-Poster claiming Irish COVID–19 vaccine certificates will be void without boosters is fake

…By Reuters FactCheck A poster masquerading as an official document… into thinking it is real. It falsely claims that a person’s COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 10:12AM EST

Fact Check-Italy did not reduce its reported tally of COVID–19 deaths by 97%

…/article/uk-factcheck-94-percent-covid-among-caus/fact–check-94…Refiled to correct grammar in headline By Reuters FactCheck Online…

NOVEMBER 09, 2021 03:33PM EST

Fact Check– Fibres in COVID–19 test swabs and face masks are not alive

…By Reuters FactCheck Close-up camera shots of face masks and COVID….” The clip shows someone pulling apart the end of a COVID–19 testing swab…

MAY 04, 2021 12:28PM EDT

Fact Check-Mariah Carey did not fake her COVID–19 vaccine

…Corrected timestamp in paragraph 5 By Reuters FactCheck Weeks after… Mariah Carey shared footage of the exact moment of her first COVID–19…

APRIL 27, 2021 11:47AM EDT

Fact Check-Photo does not show Sen. Rand Paul getting COVID–19 vaccine

…Updated to add Sen. Paul’s response By Reuters FactCheck… vaccinated against COVID–19. The claim…

AUGUST 09, 2021 03:14PM EDT

Fact Check-Death of five-year-old British boy falsely linked to COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck A picture of a mother holding her son while he… receives a COVID–19 vaccine has been falsely linked by social media…

DECEMBER 13, 2021 01:14PM EST

Fact Check-Photo shows 2019 music festival in Switzerland, not COVID–19 health pass protests in Italy

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been sharing… in Italy over recently approved COVID–19 health passes…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 03:55PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence COVID–19 vaccines will cause an ‘exponential rise’ in deaths

…By Reuters FactCheck There is no evidence to suggest COVID–19… in the video claims the COVID–19 vaccine “is an experimental injection…

APRIL 29, 2021 01:40PM EDT

Fact Check-Video does not show a man running away from COVID–19 vaccination

…By Reuters FactCheck A video that has been circulating since… at least February 2020, months before COVID–19 vaccination efforts started…

OCTOBER 04, 2021 04:49PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 hospitalization data in posts only represents approximately 10% of U.S. population

…By Reuters FactCheck A COVID–19 hospitalizations graph is being used… that hospitalizations for COVID–19 have “decreased dramatically” since last summer…

AUGUST 10, 2021 11:21AM EDT

Fact Check-Why does Pfizer’s new COVID–19 pill include a protease inhibitor used in HIV treatment?

… debunked other baseless links between COVID–19 and HIV in these fact…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have questioned why…

DECEMBER 29, 2021 12:38PM EST

Fact Check-Video does not show Fauci saying COVID–19 vaccines make recipients worse

… this and as of the publishing of this check, there’s no evidence COVID–19 jabs…By Reuters FactCheck A statement from U.S. infectious disease expert…

OCTOBER 19, 2021 10:41AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 is not a ‘flu variety’ predicted by the Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘lock step’ scenario

…By Reuters FactCheck The COVID–19 pandemic was not predicted… statements rated as false by a European fact–checking project (https…

JULY 13, 2021 11:11AM EDT

Fact Check-Norway’s Institute of Public Health did not say COVID–19 is as dangerous as the common flu

…By Reuters FactCheck Norway has not declared COVID–19 a disease…, it is not true to say COVID–19 has been reassessed to be as dangerous as the flu…

OCTOBER 07, 2021 08:17AM EDT

Fact Check-Solihull schoolboy, 17, did not die after COVID–19 vaccination

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a man saying he has reported… a COVID–19 vaccine contains false information. The boy, Adam Ali…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 07:48AM EDT

Fact Check-VAERS data does not prove COVID–19 vaccine deaths exceeded 12,000

…/fact–check-vaers-data-does-not-prove-thousands-died-from-receiving-covid…By Reuters FactCheck Posts sharing incorrect incident numbers…

JULY 26, 2021 11:46AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence to support claim by ex-Pfizer scientist on COVID–19 vaccine safety in children

…-percent-covid-among-caus/fact–check-94-of-individuals-with-additional…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to a claim made by ex-Pfizer scientist…

NOVEMBER 16, 2021 03:33PM EST

Fact Check-Home COVID–19 tests were not designed to use water and other liquids, manufacturer says

…By Reuters FactCheck There is no evidence to support social media… claims that water droplets testing positive for COVID–19 are proof…

JANUARY 03, 2022 06:17AM EST

Fact Check-Marine Corps General did not ‘rebuke’ Defense Secretary over COVID–19 vaccine mandate

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts circulating on social media that claim… to get vaccinated against COVID–19, anticipating full regulatory clearance…

AUGUST 13, 2021 04:45PM EDT

Fact Check-Kamala Harris clip saying every person in hospital with COVID–19 is vaccinated has been edited

…By Reuters FactCheck U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris did not say… that virtually every individual in hospital with COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 08, 2021 02:50PM EST

Fact Check-Tiktok clip makes false claims about Moderna COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck Viewed over 138,000 times, a TikTok clip makes… several claims about Moderna Inc. and its COVID–19 vaccine. Most…

JULY 06, 2021 03:52PM EDT

Fact Check-False claim about Pfizer CEO’s wife dying after complications from COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing an article which… wife, Myriam Bourla, died of complications after receiving the COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 16, 2021 03:59PM EST

Fact Check-Biden urged those in hurricane-prone states to get COVID–19 shots in case of evacuation

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a video of U.S…. President Joe Biden saying to get vaccinated against COVID–19 in order…

NOVEMBER 03, 2021 02:49PM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows fire at Italian Carabinieri barracks not a COVID–19 vaccine warehouse

…By Reuters FactCheck After mandatory vaccination was approved… COVID–19 vaccines. While the fire did…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 06:56AM EST

Fact Check-VAERS data does not prove over 2,000 deaths due to COVID–19 vaccines in July 2021

…Refile to correct the VAERS acronym in headline By Reuters FactCheck… in deaths due to COVID–19 vaccinations in July 2021 are untrue. Centers…

AUGUST 06, 2021 07:27AM EDT

Fact Check-CDC comorbidity figures presented in sermon do not undermine deadliness of COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck An old video of a pastor claiming that figures… the COVID–19 pandemic does not exist is recirculating online…

JULY 06, 2021 10:50AM EDT

Fact Check-Japan has not authorized ivermectin to treat COVID–19 or revoked a vaccine mandate

…By Reuters FactCheck Inaccurate claims about ivermectin being used… to treat COVID–19 in Japan, a country where almost 80…

JANUARY 17, 2022 01:14PM EST

Fact Check-EudraVigilance does not say COVID–19 vaccines have killed tens of thousands of people

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have claimed a European… of thousands of people have died as a result of COVID–19 vaccines. However…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 01:00PM EST

Fact Check-Croatia’s president did not halt the country’s COVID–19 vaccination programme

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have falsely suggested… COVID–19 vaccination drive. Example…

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 10:32AM EDT

Fact Check-Graph comparing Scottish COVID–19 hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status lacks key information

…By Reuters FactCheck A chart circulating on social media takes… a snapshot of COVID–19 statistics in Scotland, broken down by vaccination…

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 02:40PM EDT

Fact Check-Study that found COVID–19 can be transmitted through aerosols doesn’t prove masks are ineffective

…By Reuters FactCheck A social media post has claimed that a peer…-reviewed study shows that masks do not protect you against COVID–19…

AUGUST 12, 2021 07:16AM EDT

Fact Check-Video of baby with birth defects is from 2019, unrelated to COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Warning: the video featured in this article… are sharing a video of a baby with birth defects and claiming that the COVID–19…

OCTOBER 14, 2021 10:45AM EDT

Fact Check-2020 CDC document about COVID–19 measures for those in humanitarian settings misinterpreted online

…Adding CDC comment By Reuters FactCheck An official COVID–19…/2019-ncov/global-covid–19/shielding-approach-humanitarian.html…

AUGUST 13, 2021 03:06PM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows protest in Netherlands over gas extraction, not COVID–19 restrictions

…By Reuters FactCheck Night-time footage showing a torchlight…, with some users claiming the demonstration was related to COVID–19 rules…

JANUARY 17, 2022 01:31PM EST

Fact Check-Video of airline CEO being hit in the face with pie dates to 2017 and is unrelated to COVID–19 vaccination policies

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have miscaptioned a video…, claiming the incident was in retaliation to mandatory COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 25, 2021 08:39AM EST

Fact Check-Photo shows 2019 music festival in Switzerland, not COVID–19 health pass protests in Italy

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been sharing… in Italy over recently approved COVID–19 health passes…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 03:55PM EDT

Fact Check-Graph showing increase in myo/pericarditis after COVID–19 vaccine rollout does not confirm link

…By Reuters FactCheck A visual showing reports of myocarditis… COVID–19 vaccine rollout has gone viral online – and has been posted…

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 10:18AM EST

Fact Check-Pfizer advertisement does not claim that COVID–19 vaccines give children superpowers

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that an advertisement by Pfizer tells children that the COVID–19 vaccine…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 02:54PM EST

Fact Check-Video shows protest in Netherlands o ver gas extraction, not COVID–19 restrictions

…By Reuters FactCheck Night-time footage showing a torchlight…, with some users claiming the demonstration was related to COVID–19 rules…

JANUARY 17, 2022 01:31PM EST

Fact Check-Video of airline CEO being hit in the face with pie dates to 2017 and is unrelated to COVID–19 vaccination policies

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have miscaptioned a video…, claiming the incident was in retaliation to mandatory COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 25, 2021 08:39AM EST

Fact Check-False claims that nobody has been ‘discovered dead at home’ from COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that nobody has ever been discovered to have died at home from COVID–19…

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 02:30PM EDT

Fact Check-Video of night-time traffic jam in Germany predates COVID–19 pandemic

…By Reuters FactCheck Dec 14 (Reuters… of tractors clogging the road to protest COVID–19 vaccine passports…

DECEMBER 14, 2021 11:11AM EST

Fact Check-Singapore PM did not say that people should go out and catch COVID–19 to build immunity

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have claimed Singapore’s… prime minister has told people to go out and catch COVID–19 in order…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 06:41AM EDT

Fact Check-Molnupiravir, Merck’s newly UK-approved COVID–19 antiviral drug, is not ‘ivermectin re-hashed’

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have falsely claimed Merck’s… newly UK-approved COVID–19 antiviral product is a repackaged version…

NOVEMBER 05, 2021 07:32AM EDT

Fact Check-Canadian government search engine results are not evidence the COVID–19 pandemic was planned

…By Reuters FactCheck A “technical glitch” on Canada’s government… website that appears to show COVID–19 procurement contracts advertised…

OCTOBER 29, 2021 12:15PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence that people are being injected with saline instead of COVID–19 vaccines to cover up vaccine fatalities

…By Reuters FactCheck Hundreds of social media users have shared… a saline injection instead of a COVID–19 vaccine to coverup severe side…

JULY 27, 2021 08:10AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence Sir David Amess was killed due to his stance on COVID–19 policies

…By Reuters FactCheck British lawmaker David Amess, who was stabbed… of a baseless suggestion that he was killed due to his stance on COVID–19…

OCTOBER 20, 2021 03:55AM EDT

Fact Check-Vaccines do not ‘wipe out’ antibodies of people who have previously had COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Vaccines do not wipe out the natural… antibodies of people who have previously been infected with COVID–19, as has…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 01:17PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines do not contain live immortal creatures, experts say

…By Reuters FactCheck A video has gone viral online making several… unverified claims about Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID–19…

OCTOBER 26, 2021 03:09PM EDT

Fact Check-U.S. flight cancellations are not due to adverse events following COVID–19 vaccination

…/fact–check-claims-a-covid-vaccinated-delta-pilot-died-during-a-flight…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing posts claiming…

JANUARY 11, 2022 01:31PM EST

… a 10-point checklist detailing alleged facts about COVID–19 vaccines…By Reuters FactCheck A fake NHS letter sent to schools in England…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 12:00PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence aspirin is ‘being attacked’ because ‘it’s proven’ to treat COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Reports about an early U.S. recommendation… disease have nothing to do with COVID–19. The comparison comes from…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 10:25AM EDT

Fact Check-Some European countries halted Moderna COVID–19 vaccines for young people

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that Europe has completely banned the use of the Moderna COVID–19 vaccine…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 02:51PM EDT

Fact Check-Japan has not abandoned its COVID–19 vaccine rollout in favour of ivermectin

…By Reuters FactCheck An article online falsely claims Japanese… authorities have abandoned the rollout of COVID–19 vaccines, instead…

NOVEMBER 01, 2021 01:36PM EDT

Fact Check-Those vaccinated for COVID–19 are not shedding toxic spike proteins into water supply

… FactCheck A meme saying the urine of people vaccinated for COVID–19…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid19vaccine-reproductivepro/fact–check–covid…

JULY 02, 2021 10:21AM EDT

Fact Check-La inexistente relación entre las vacunas contra la COVID–19 y la tecnología 5G

…-coronavirus-vaccine/fact–check-magnet-test-does-not-prove-covid–19-jabs-contain…-covid19vaccines-5g/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-are-not-a-ploy-to-connect…

AUGUST 23, 2021 09:45AM EDT

Fact Check-German doctor’s death used to make false claims about COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck The unexpected death of a doctor in Chemnitz… of a COVID–19 vaccine “genocide”. Dr…

NOVEMBER 24, 2021 12:44PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 test swabs cannot touch the brain or bruise the amygdala to make people submissive

…By Reuters FactCheckCOVID–19 test swabs are not used to replicate… receiving a nasal swab during a COVID–19 test, to an ancient Egyptian…

NOVEMBER 08, 2021 03:48PM EST

Fact Check-Elections Ontario’s COVID–19 vaccination policy does not apply to voters

…By Reuters FactCheck A requirement by Ontario’s electoral authority… provide proof of COVID–19 vaccination before entering its premises does…

JANUARY 11, 2022 12:49PM EST

Fact Check-Claims about COVID–19 hospitalisations by vaccine status lack context

…By Reuters FactCheck A misstatement about COVID–19 data made…% of COVID–19 patients in hospital in England had not received a vaccine…

DECEMBER 13, 2021 02:22PM EST

Fact Check-The European Parliament has not opposed use of COVID–19 vaccine passes

…By Reuters FactCheck The European Parliament has not opposed the use… of COVID–19 vaccine passes, contrary to claims on social media. While…

OCTOBER 29, 2021 11:53AM EDT

Fact Check-2015 Nobel Prize for ivermectin intended for treatment of parasitic infections doesn’t prove its efficacy on COVID–19

… the drug. By Reuters FactCheck Social media users claim that the drug… or effective drug in the treatment of COVID–19, a virus. As of this article’s…

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 04:22PM EDT

Fact Check-Conclusions about COVID–19 case rates fail to account for data differences

…By Reuters FactCheck Articles shared online have made a misleading… conclusion based on UK government data that COVID–19 vaccines increase…

OCTOBER 29, 2021 12:06PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence COVID–19 vaccines will cause ‘cytokine storms’  

… in the report assured Reuters in a previous fact–check that today’s COVID…By Reuters FactCheck A viral Facebook post has repeated…

APRIL 23, 2021 08:47AM EDT

Fact Check-Mouthwash might reduce SARS-CoV-2 viral load in the mouth for a short time, but it is not a COVID–19 cure

…By Reuters FactCheck U.S. Republican Senator Ron Johnson has claimed… after intake, for adults who had asymptomatic to mild COVID–19…

DECEMBER 13, 2021 02:58PM EST

Fact Check-Video does not prove COVID–19 vaccines cause blood anomalies

…By Reuters FactCheck A video shared online has presented alleged… evidence that COVID–19 vaccine recipients are experiencing “severe red…

AUGUST 26, 2021 12:01PM EDT

Fact Check-VAERS and FAERS data shown does not prove COVID–19 vaccine adverse events and deaths

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts are sharing an image comparing adverse…, dexamethasone, Tylenol and COVID–19 vaccines, as reported by U.S…

JULY 02, 2021 02:59PM EDT

Fact Check-EudraVigilance does not say COVID–19 vaccines have killed tens of thousands of people

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have claimed a European… of thousands of people have died as a result of COVID–19 vaccines. However…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 01:00PM EST

Fact Check-Claims 12-year-old tennis player who died had received COVID–19 vaccine are unsubstantiated

… been removed. By Reuters FactCheck Posts on social media sharing… the COVID–19 vaccine are unsubstantiated. The tennis academy where…

JUNE 29, 2021 03:53PM EDT

Fact Check-Video of baby with birth defects is from 2019, unrelated to COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Warning: the video featured in this article… are sharing a video of a baby with birth defects and claiming that the COVID–19…

OCTOBER 14, 2021 10:45AM EDT

Fact Check-Posts misconstrue lifting of COVID–19 restrictions in Denmark, Sweden and Norway

… from author of viral tweet. Adding link to Norwegian government COVID–19… 23 to make clear that COVID–19 certificates are no longer used…

OCTOBER 11, 2021 02:53PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines so far significantly reduce severe illness and hospitalization

…By Reuters FactCheck Users are falsely claiming… that there is no proof that COVID–19 vaccines reduce severity of illness…

AUGUST 05, 2021 04:09PM EDT

Fact Check-Dutch government COVID–19 website did not launch before first virus case

…By Reuters FactCheck Screenshots of and links to a domain registry… for the Dutch government’s COVID–19 status app, CoronaCheck, was registered…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 10:32AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines approved by UK health regulator are being delivered legally

…By Reuters FactCheck A video has gone viral showing a woman telling… British police officers that COVID–19 vaccines are illegal. However…

JULY 20, 2021 11:34AM EDT

Fact Check-Footage doesn’t show protest against COVID–19 vaccines in Romania

…-19 as paragraphs 15 and 16. By Reuters FactCheck A video… a recent demonstration against COVID–19 vaccination…

OCTOBER 06, 2021 11:22AM EDT

Fact Check-Fruit juices and coffee cannot produce a positive test result for COVID–19

…Updated to correct paragraph formatting By Reuters FactCheck Social… for COVID–19 have misunderstood how lateral flow devices (LFDs) work…

JULY 16, 2021 04:57PM EDT

Fact Check-England’s COVID–19 death statistics do not suggest vaccines aren’t working

…By Reuters FactCheck An online blog saying 62% of England’s recent… COVID–19 deaths are among vaccinated individuals has taken Public…

JULY 07, 2021 10:38AM EDT

Fact Check-Bogus document claims to show ‘release dates’ of COVID–19 variants

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are making the baseless… that the COVID–19 pandemic has been “planned” or “staged”, which Reuters has…

AUGUST 02, 2021 11:20AM EDT

Fact Check-UK vaccine report still includes data comparing COVID–19 rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated

…. By Reuters FactCheck An article has claimed that a chart showing higher… COVID–19 infection rates in vaccinated people than unvaccinated people…

JANUARY 10, 2022 12:57PM EST

Fact Check-No evidence Sir David Amess was killed due to his stance on COVID–19 policies

…By Reuters FactCheck British lawmaker David Amess, who was stabbed… of a baseless suggestion that he was killed due to his stance on COVID–19…

OCTOBER 20, 2021 03:55AM EDT

Fact Check-Some European countries halted Moderna COVID–19 vaccines for young people

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that Europe has completely banned the use of the Moderna COVID–19 vaccine…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 02:51PM EDT

Fact Check-Elections Ontario’s COVID–19 vaccination policy does not apply to voters

…By Reuters FactCheck A requirement by Ontario’s electoral authority… provide proof of COVID–19 vaccination before entering its premises does…

JANUARY 11, 2022 12:49PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 test swabs cannot touch the brain or bruise the amygdala to make people submissive

…By Reuters FactCheckCOVID–19 test swabs are not used to replicate… receiving a nasal swab during a COVID–19 test, to an ancient Egyptian…

NOVEMBER 08, 2021 03:48PM EST

Fact Check-Vaccines do not ‘wipe out’ antibodies of people who have previously had COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Vaccines do not wipe out the natural… antibodies of people who have previously been infected with COVID–19, as has…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 01:17PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 nasal swabs sterilised with ethylene oxide are safe to use

…By Reuters FactCheck Nasal swabs included with COVID–19 tests have…-of-ethylene-oxide-to-sterilise-swabs-used-in-testing-for-covid–19 and https…

JULY 27, 2021 08:03AM EDT

Fact Check-Those vaccinated for COVID–19 are not shedding toxic spike proteins into water supply

… FactCheck A meme saying the urine of people vaccinated for COVID–19…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid19vaccine-reproductivepro/fact–check–covid…

JULY 02, 2021 10:21AM EDT

… a 10-point checklist detailing alleged facts about COVID–19 vaccines…By Reuters FactCheck A fake NHS letter sent to schools in England…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 12:00PM EDT

Fact Check-La evidencia disponible acerca de las vacunas de refuerzo contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck 6 dic (Reuters…/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizerbiontech-covid–19-vaccine…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 10:32AM EST

Fact Check-German doctor’s death used to make false claims about COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck The unexpected death of a doctor in Chemnitz… of a COVID–19 vaccine “genocide”. Dr…

NOVEMBER 24, 2021 12:44PM EST

Fact Check-No evidence aspirin is ‘being attacked’ because ‘it’s proven’ to treat COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Reports about an early U.S. recommendation… disease have nothing to do with COVID–19. The comparison comes from…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 10:25AM EDT

Fact Check-Pfizer no incluye trometamina en su vacuna COVID–19 para contrarrestar los efectos secundarios

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 6 dic… agregado el nuevo ingrediente a la vacuna contra el COVID–19 de Pfizer…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 05:22PM EST

Fact Check-Claims about COVID–19 hospitalisations by vaccine status lack context

…By Reuters FactCheck A misstatement about COVID–19 data made…% of COVID–19 patients in hospital in England had not received a vaccine…

DECEMBER 13, 2021 02:22PM EST

Fact Check-Mouthwash might reduce SARS-CoV-2 viral load in the mouth for a short time, but it is not a COVID–19 cure

…By Reuters FactCheck U.S. Republican Senator Ron Johnson has claimed… after intake, for adults who had asymptomatic to mild COVID–19…

DECEMBER 13, 2021 02:58PM EST

Fact Check-Las vacunas de COVID–19 no tienen células de fetos abortados

…Por Reuters FactCheck 27 sep (Reuters…-protest-covid–19-vaccines-use-fetal-cells ), ( https…

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 09:39AM EDT

Fact Check-How do antigen tests differ from PCR tests in COVID–19 detection?

…By Reuters FactCheck In a Sept. 9 speech, U.S. President Joe Biden… designed to combat the COVID–19 pandemic ( https://bit.ly/3D8eXac…

OCTOBER 06, 2021 02:28PM EDT

Fact Check-Conclusions about COVID–19 case rates fail to account for data differences

…By Reuters FactCheck Articles shared online have made a misleading… conclusion based on UK government data that COVID–19 vaccines increase…

OCTOBER 29, 2021 12:06PM EDT

Fact Check-VAERS and FAERS data shown does not prove COVID–19 vaccine adverse events and deaths

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts are sharing an image comparing adverse…, dexamethasone, Tylenol and COVID–19 vaccines, as reported by U.S…

JULY 02, 2021 02:59PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 cases have been increasing in Israel and Palestine in August

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims that COVID–19 cases have not increased… (“Daily new confirmed COVID–19 cases per million people”) and noticing…

AUGUST 16, 2021 03:17PM EDT

Fact Check-The CDC did not say PCR tests are incapable of detecting COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease… this was that such diagnostic tests to confirm cases of COVID–19 in the United…

DECEMBER 31, 2021 11:04AM EST

Fact Check-CDC recommends COVID–19 vaccine even after recovering from the virus

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are sharing a video… discussing immunity after recovering from COVID–19 versus receiving…

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 03:49PM EDT

Fact Check-BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has been vaccinated against COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck The CEO of BioNTech, the biotechnology company… that worked with Pfizer to develop one of the COVID–19 vaccines, has…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 01:56PM EST

Fact Check-The CDC did not say fewer young people are hospitalized from COVID–19 than from vaccinations

…Updated to fix paragraph formatting By Reuters FactCheck Claims… are hospitalized from vaccine reactions than COVID–19 are baseless…

JULY 09, 2021 10:28AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence five leaders were killed for opposing COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Following the assassination of Haitian… while in office, were killed for opposing COVID–19 vaccines…

JULY 22, 2021 02:45PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence that 87,000 Dutch nurses have refused a COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims online that 87,000 nurses… in the Netherlands have refused a COVID–19 vaccine are baseless – and have been…

JULY 23, 2021 11:20AM EDT

Fact Check-Joke altered image of COVID–19 Vaccination Record Card with 15 doses taken seriously

…By Reuters FactCheck A photograph displaying a COVID–19 Vaccine… doses of COVID–19 vaccines, with the possibility of a third booster shot…

JULY 13, 2021 04:00PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 nasal swabs sterilised with ethylene oxide are safe to use

…By Reuters FactCheck Nasal swabs included with COVID–19 tests have…-of-ethylene-oxide-to-sterilise-swabs-used-in-testing-for-covid–19 and https…

JULY 27, 2021 08:03AM EDT

Fact Check-Claims that a ‘body double’ got COVID–19 booster instead of Biden are false, use digitally altered photo

…-million-deaths-ceremon/fact–check-ceremony-honoring-500000-covid–19-deaths…By Reuters FactCheck Posts claiming that a “body double…

OCTOBER 06, 2021 11:12AM EDT

Fact Check-Misleading comparison between COVID–19 and diseases such as AIDS, chlamydia and Ebola

…By Reuters FactCheck A misleading comparison between COVID–19… for covid–19 (aka nasty cold virus) … I’m barred. Seriously…

AUGUST 06, 2021 04:53AM EDT

Fact Check-Fruit juices and coffee cannot produce a positive test result for COVID–19

…Updated to correct paragraph formatting By Reuters FactCheck Social… for COVID–19 have misunderstood how lateral flow devices (LFDs) work…

JULY 16, 2021 04:57PM EDT

Fact Check-More people have not died from COVID–19 vaccines than from the disease itself

…By Reuters FactCheck A social media post has incorrectly claimed… that more people have died from COVID–19 vaccine than from the disease…

JUNE 18, 2021 01:59PM EDT

Fact Check-Classification code predates COVID–19 and is not evidence unvaccinated people will be placed into education camps

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a video in which… to working with our provider partners to combat the continued COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 02:13PM EST

Fact Check-Mouthwash might reduce SARS-CoV-2 viral load in the mouth for a short time, but it is not a COVID–19 cure

…Updated to include quotes from Dr Daniel Fine By Reuters FactCheck… who had asymptomatic to mild COVID–19. It concluded that the mouthwash…

DECEMBER 14, 2021 11:10AM EST

Fact Check-Inhaling hydrogen peroxide is not a recommended treatment for COVID–19 or other illnesses

…By Reuters FactCheck Medical professionals strongly advise against… remedy for COVID–19 or pneumonia. Videos shared on social media…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 10:53AM EDT

Fact Check-What do we know about COVID–19 vaccines and transmission?

…By Reuters FactCheck Confusion has spread online over the impact… COVID–19 vaccines can have on transmission…

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 10:31AM EST

Fact Check-Study does not show COVID–19 link to genital herpes

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media posters have been wrongly… suggesting a medical study has shown a link between COVID–19 and genital…

APRIL 22, 2021 11:32AM EDT

Fact Check-Shakin’ Stevens did not tweet that variants of COVID–19 are being used as a ploy to vaccinate people

…By Reuters FactCheck Eighties pop star Shakin’ Stevens did not tweet… that the danger of COVID–19 variants are being used as a ploy…

JULY 01, 2021 01:15PM EDT

Fact Check-Desinformación detectada en un meme sobre la vacuna contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 1 nov… de la vacuna contra el COVID–19, como que en realidad es una terapia…

NOVEMBER 01, 2021 10:33AM EDT

Fact Check-VAERS data does not suggest COVID–19 vaccines killed 150,000 people, as analysis claims

…-usa/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-do-not-kill-more-people-than…By Reuters FactCheck An article widely shared on social media claims…

OCTOBER 04, 2021 06:52AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence COVID–19 vaccines are linked to athletes collapsing or dying from myocarditis

… FactCheck There is no evidence currently that COVID–19 vaccines… strongly suggests the incidents are related to COVID–19 vaccines…

NOVEMBER 29, 2021 01:33PM EST

Fact Check-CDC did not ‘admit’ COVID–19 can only be caught once

…By Reuters FactCheck A guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast has… made several misleading claims about COVID–19 reinfection and PCR…

DECEMBER 27, 2021 09:56AM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 cases have been increasing in Israel and Palestine in August

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims that COVID–19 cases have not increased… (“Daily new confirmed COVID–19 cases per million people”) and noticing…

AUGUST 16, 2021 03:17PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence COVID–19 vaccines have a “174 times higher” mortality rate in children than the virus

…Correcting spacing in paragraph 1 By Reuters FactCheck A claim… circulating online that COVID–19 vaccines  cause  a “174 times higher…

OCTOBER 21, 2021 01:27PM EDT

Fact Check-BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has been vaccinated against COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck The CEO of BioNTech, the biotechnology company… that worked with Pfizer to develop one of the COVID–19 vaccines, has…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 01:56PM EST

Fact Check-Video de autopsia cerebral es antiguo; las vacunas contra la COVID–19 no contienen grafeno

…Por Reuters FactCheck 10 ago (Reuters… contra la COVID–19. Las publicaciones…

AUGUST 10, 2021 05:01PM EDT

Fact Check-WHO skipped letters of Greek alphabet while naming COVID–19 variant Omicron

…By Reuters FactCheck Several social media posts have questioned… new COVID–19 variants and speculated over whether it avoided letters…

NOVEMBER 27, 2021 08:45AM EST

Fact Check-Twitter user’s comments on WHO statements about vaccinating children against COVID–19 are misleading

…By Reuters FactCheck Comments from a Twitter user on COVID vaccines… information about the Pfizer COVID–19 vaccine being suitable for children…

JUNE 24, 2021 02:38PM EDT

Fact Check-Clip does not show Italian police joining a demonstration against COVID–19 ‘Green Pass’ in Milan

…By Reuters FactCheck A widely shared video of Milan police… to be shown by citizens to prove immunity from COVID–19. It is in use…

AUGUST 18, 2021 08:46AM EDT

Fact Check-Study did not conclude that people who have been infected with COVID–19 are protected for life

…By Reuters FactCheck A study published by researchers at Washington… that people who have had COVID–19 are protected for life, despite claims made…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 02:47PM EST

Fact Check-Trump is not president, did not file cease and desist order for COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts saying former United States President… order for the COVID–19 vaccines are false. Trump lost the election…

JUNE 29, 2021 02:33PM EDT

Fact Check-UK vaccine report still includes data comparing COVID–19 rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated

…. By Reuters FactCheck An article has claimed that a chart showing higher… COVID–19 infection rates in vaccinated people than unvaccinated people…

JANUARY 10, 2022 12:57PM EST

Fact Check-Desinformación detectada en un meme sobre la vacuna contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 1 nov… de la vacuna contra el COVID–19, como que en realidad es una terapia…

NOVEMBER 01, 2021 10:33AM EDT

Fact Check-Pfizer CEO’s comments on limited COVID–19 vaccine protection refer to the Omicron variant

…By Reuters FactCheck Recent comments from Pfizer Chief Executive… Officer Albert Bourla on how two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID–19…

JANUARY 13, 2022 02:01PM EST

Fact Check-Twitter user’s comments on WHO statements about vaccinating children against COVID–19 are misleading

…By Reuters FactCheck Comments from a Twitter user on COVID vaccines… information about the Pfizer COVID–19 vaccine being suitable for children…

JUNE 24, 2021 02:38PM EDT

Fact Check-Por qué las vacunas del COVID–19 no están relacionadas con el Código de Nuremberg

…Por Reuters FactCheck 11 oct (Reuters…, se afirma falsamente que la vacunación contra el COVID–19 viola…

OCTOBER 11, 2021 10:13AM EDT

Fact Check-Las vacunas de COVID–19 no tienen células de fetos abortados

…Por Reuters FactCheck 27 sep (Reuters…-protest-covid–19-vaccines-use-fetal-cells ), ( https…

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 09:39AM EDT

Fact Check-How do antigen tests differ from PCR tests in COVID–19 detection?

…By Reuters FactCheck In a Sept. 9 speech, U.S. President Joe Biden… designed to combat the COVID–19 pandemic ( https://bit.ly/3D8eXac…

OCTOBER 06, 2021 02:28PM EDT

Fact Check-“Flurona” no es el nombre de una nueva variante del coronavirus causante del COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck 7 ene (Reuters… SARS-CoV-2, causante del COVID–19. Expertos y autoridades médicas…

JANUARY 07, 2022 03:42PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 face masks do not trap dangerous levels of carbon dioxide

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a woman breathing directly onto… a carbon dioxide monitor while wearing a COVID–19 mask has been used…

DECEMBER 15, 2021 11:45AM EST

Fact Check-Tomar una aspirina con tres limones hervidos no cura el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 9 sep… pacientes del COVID–19 demostró recientemente que la aspirina no mejoraba…

SEPTEMBER 09, 2021 08:25PM EDT

Fact Check-Las vacunas contra el COVID–19 no destruyen el sistema inmunológico

…Por Reuters FactCheck 4 oct (Reuters…) – Las vacunas del COVID–19 no destruyen el sistema inmunológico de…

OCTOBER 04, 2021 10:08AM EDT

CORRECTION-Fact Check-‘Magnet test’ does not prove COVID–19 jabs contain metal or a microchip

… metals are magnetic. By Reuters FactCheck Vaccines for COVID–19 do… that COVID–19 jabs contain a microchip…

JUNE 25, 2021 08:24AM EDT

Fact Check-Study did not conclude that people who have been infected with COVID–19 are protected for life

…By Reuters FactCheck A study published by researchers at Washington… that people who have had COVID–19 are protected for life, despite claims made…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 02:47PM EST

Fact Check-Trump is not president, did not file cease and desist order for COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts saying former United States President… order for the COVID–19 vaccines are false. Trump lost the election…

JUNE 29, 2021 02:33PM EDT

Fact Check-Pfizer CEO’s comments on limited COVID–19 vaccine protection refer to the Omicron variant

…By Reuters FactCheck Recent comments from Pfizer Chief Executive… Officer Albert Bourla on how two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID–19…

JANUARY 13, 2022 02:01PM EST

Fact Check-Data in internet posts does not prove COVID–19 shots cause death, disease

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts sharing incident numbers reported… says COVID–19 vaccines are safe and effective, “under the most intense…

JUNE 17, 2021 10:50AM EDT

Fact Check-“Flurona” no es el nombre de una nueva variante del coronavirus causante del COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck 7 ene (Reuters… SARS-CoV-2, causante del COVID–19. Expertos y autoridades médicas…

JANUARY 07, 2022 03:42PM EST

Fact Check-Por qué las vacunas del COVID–19 no están relacionadas con el Código de Nuremberg

…Por Reuters FactCheck 11 oct (Reuters…, se afirma falsamente que la vacunación contra el COVID–19 viola…

OCTOBER 11, 2021 10:13AM EDT

Fact Check-Los CDC de EEUU no dijeron que las pruebas PCR no detectan el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 4 ene… inglés) han retirado las pruebas PCR de detección del COVID–19 para uso de…

JANUARY 04, 2022 12:46PM EST

Fact Check-Las dosis contra el COVID–19 no contienen luciferina o luciferasa

…- Por Reuters FactCheck 16 nov (Reuters… inyecciones del COVID–19 contienen luciferina, un compuesto orgánico…

NOVEMBER 16, 2021 10:17AM EST

Fact Check-Un documento falso muestra las “fechas de lanzamiento” de las variantes de COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 6 ago… de COVID–19 ha sido “planificada” o “puesta en escena”, que Reuters ha…

AUGUST 06, 2021 12:15PM EDT

Fact Check-¿Vacunarse tras recuperación de COVID–19? Sí, dicen los expertos

…Por Reuters FactCheck 20 sep (Reuters… erróneamente que quienes ya tuvieron COVID–19 no pueden vacunarse…

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 10:38AM EDT

Fact Check-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did receive a COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck A recent picture of Jacinda Ardern has been… minister faked her COVID–19 inoculation…

JUNE 23, 2021 12:35PM EDT

Fact Check-Los vacunados contra el COVID–19 sí pueden donar sangre

…Por Reuters FactCheck 1 nov (Reuters… contra el COVID–19. En varios contenidos, se afirma que las personas que…

NOVEMBER 01, 2021 11:01AM EDT

Fact Check-Unvaccinated people are much more susceptible to catching COVID–19 than those who have been vaccinated

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have incorrectly suggested… and deaths from COVID–19 in recent months (https…

JUNE 15, 2021 08:59AM EDT

Fact Check-Las vacunas del COVID–19 no se han saltado fases de estudio

…- Por Reuters FactCheck 6 sep (Reuters…/johnson-johnson-single-shot-covid–19-vaccine-phase-3-data-published…

SEPTEMBER 06, 2021 10:07AM EDT

Fact Check-Danish footballer Christian Eriksen has not received a COVID–19 vaccine, according to Inter Milan’s director

…By Reuters FactCheck Danish footballer Christian Eriksen’s collapse… on the pitch was not a result of a COVID–19 vaccine, despite false…

JUNE 14, 2021 11:46AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence only vaccinated people are getting sick and dying

…-vaers-faers/fact–check-vaers-and-faers-data-shown-does-not-prove-covid–19…-breakthrough/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-greatly-reduce-risk-of-severe-illness…

JULY 07, 2021 02:46PM EDT

Fact Check-Foto de Mike Tyson con camiseta antivacunas contra el COVID–19 fue alterada

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 10 jul…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-miketyson-altered/fact–check-mike-tysons…

JULY 10, 2021 09:20AM EDT

Fact Check-El Senado de Estados Unidos no anunció que el COVID–19 es “una mentira”

…Añade etiqueta de “FactCheck” al principio del titular Por Reuters… FactCheck 23 jun (Reuters…

JUNE 23, 2021 05:24PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence only vaccinated people are getting sick and dying

…-vaers-faers/fact–check-vaers-and-faers-data-shown-does-not-prove-covid–19…-breakthrough/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-greatly-reduce-risk-of-severe-illness…

JULY 07, 2021 02:46PM EDT

Fact Check-Sweden did not stop using PCR testing for COVID–19 infections

…By Reuters FactCheck Sweden has not halted the use of polymerase… chain reaction (PCR) tests for detecting COVID–19 illness, contrary…

JUNE 01, 2021 12:13PM EDT

Fact Check-CDC data shows around 50% of U.S. population have received COVID–19 vaccine dose

…By Reuters FactCheck Half of the U.S. population have already had… at least one dose of the COVID–19 vaccine, according to data from…

JUNE 01, 2021 11:52AM EDT

Fact Check-No teenagers died in Britain’s Blyth or Cramlington after vaccination

…By Reuters FactCheck There is no truth to a Twitter user’s claim… an hour after receiving a COVID–19 vaccine, with two later dying…

JANUARY 12, 2022 12:09PM EST

Fact Check-The U.S. military did not arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing an article… following a COVID–19 booster shot…

NOVEMBER 12, 2021 02:29PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines did not skip animal trials because of animal deaths

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts claiming that COVID–19 vaccine producers…/factcheck-covid-vaccines/corrected-fact–check–covid–19-vaccines…

JUNE 01, 2021 10:21AM EDT

Fact Check-Fashion model makes multiple false claims about COVID–19 and vaccines that have been repeatedly debunked

…/factcheck-fraud-covid/fact–check-videos-do-not-show-proof-of-covid–19-fraud…/factcheck-variants-covid/fact–check-coronavirus-variants-are-real…

JUNE 04, 2021 02:35PM EDT

Fact Check-Exemption cards for the NHS COVID Pass are fake

…By Reuters FactCheck Fake cards showing an exemption from the NHS… COVID Pass, a record used to show vaccination status or COVID–19 test…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 10:18AM EDT

Fact Check-Unvaccinated people in Canada can still shop in grocery stores

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… by the province https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/covid–19…

DECEMBER 17, 2021 02:41PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines don’t strip people of their antibodies; vaccinated individuals can donate blood

…By Reuters FactCheckCOVID–19 vaccine recipients can donate plasma… that the Red Cross is not accepting these donations because the COVID–19…

MAY 28, 2021 08:07AM EDT

Fact Check-Mandatarios africanos no fueron asesinados por oponerse a la vacunación contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 7 jun… el COVID–19. Aunque alguno de ellos negó la pandemia del coronavirus y…

JUNE 07, 2021 06:50PM EDT

…By Reuters FactCheck Several posts online have claimed… that declining COVID–19 case numbers following anti-lockdown protests are evidence…

JUNE 02, 2021 07:54AM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows a prison, not internment camp for unvaccinated people

…Refiling to correct broken link By Reuters FactCheck A video shared… are not unvaccinated against COVID–19…

DECEMBER 31, 2021 05:35AM EST

Fact Check-Depopulation quote has been misattributed to Klaus Schwab

…By Reuters FactCheck A quote about depopulation has been… ‘Covid–19: The Great Reset’ (https://www.amazon.co.uk/COVID–19-Great…

JUNE 29, 2021 10:59AM EDT

Fact Check-Pictured patent is for contact tracing, not implantable 5G tracking

…By Reuters FactCheck A claim… that COVID–19 vaccines are tracking people. The patent, however…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 02:38PM EDT

Fact Check-Needle in animal microchip video not used in COVID–19 vaccine injections

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a needle used to microchip animals… with COVID–19 vaccines because the needle in the video is more than…

MAY 27, 2021 04:49AM EDT

Fact Check-Unfounded conspiracy claims about Department of Homeland Security and luciferase

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are claiming that a patent… the COVID–19 vaccine as the “mark of the beast…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 03:26PM EDT

Fact Check-False claim that ‘FDA approval does not mean scientifically proven’

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that the COVID–19 vaccines are scientifically proven to be safe or effective…

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 02:27PM EDT

Fact Check-Fashion model makes multiple false claims about COVID–19 and vaccines that have been repeatedly debunked

…/factcheck-fraud-covid/fact–check-videos-do-not-show-proof-of-covid–19-fraud…/factcheck-variants-covid/fact–check-coronavirus-variants-are-real…

JUNE 04, 2021 02:35PM EDT

Fact Check-CDC director did not confess that vaccines are failing

…By Reuters FactCheck Rochelle Walensky has not confessed… misinformation published by Mike Adams, visible in fact–checks https…

AUGUST 04, 2021 04:42PM EDT

Fact Check-‘Flurona’ is not the name of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to claims shared widely online… causes COVID–19. Experts and health authorities told Reuters…

JANUARY 07, 2022 12:58PM EST

Fact Check-Forbes headline that was updated for clarity continues to be taken out of context

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users pointed to a now-updated… Forbes Health headline that was interpreted as meaning that the COVID–19…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 10:30AM EST

Fact Check-Queensland rules do not outlaw unvaccinated people sneezing

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… the COVID–19 pandemic (https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance…

DECEMBER 14, 2021 09:07AM EST

Fact Check-Britain’s MHRA did not update wording on vaccine safety

…By Reuters FactCheck A claim spreading online that Britain’s… vaccines regulator has changed its description of COVID–19 vaccines from…

JANUARY 13, 2022 10:09AM EST

Fact Check-Masks do not expose children to dangerous levels of carbon dioxide

…By Reuters FactCheck Online claims that children wearing face masks… for COVID–19 are being exposed to dangerous levels of carbon dioxide…

AUGUST 02, 2021 04:28PM EDT

Fact Check-False claim that ‘FDA approval does not mean scientifically proven’

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that the COVID–19 vaccines are scientifically proven to be safe or effective…

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 02:27PM EDT

Fact Check-Businesses asking for COVID–19 vaccine status aren’t violating HIPAA

…By Reuters FactCheck Business customers across the United States can… be asked for proof of COVID–19 vaccination. Claims on social media…

MAY 26, 2021 11:43AM EDT

Fact Check-There is no evidence that mRNA vaccines are linked to blood clots

…By Reuters FactCheck A video has flooded Facebook claiming that 62…% of people given an mRNA vaccine for COVID–19 have developed blood…

AUGUST 27, 2021 10:48AM EDT

Fact Check-England’s death data does not show ‘vaccine-caused mortality’

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have taken mortality data… for England out of context to falsely claim it shows COVID–19 vaccines…

DECEMBER 02, 2021 10:38AM EST

Fact Check-Video claiming COVID–19 vaccine left 13,627 dead and 17,794 disabled is sourced from unverified VAERS data

…By Reuters FactCheck A video being shared online claims that COVID… adverse events from COVID–19 vaccines https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus…

SEPTEMBER 01, 2021 02:23PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence the number of vaccine deaths will rival the number of COVID deaths

…-symptoms/fact–check-data-in-internet-posts-does-not-prove-covid–19-shots…By Reuters FactCheck Posts claiming that the number of deaths…

JUNE 18, 2021 02:24PM EDT

Fact Check-Mandatarios africanos no fueron asesinados por oponerse a la vacunación contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 7 jun… el COVID–19. Aunque alguno de ellos negó la pandemia del coronavirus y…

JUNE 07, 2021 06:50PM EDT

Fact Check-Deaths at Astroworld music festival were not caused by 5G

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are falsely claiming… by the activation of graphene oxide in COVID–19 vaccines (https://www.reuters.com…

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 02:53PM EST

Fact Check-It is normal for safety monitoring to continue after clinical trials

…By Reuters FactCheck False claims about COVID–19 vaccine testing…. Firstly, current data shows that authorised COVID–19 vaccines are safe…

AUGUST 11, 2021 05:51AM EDT

Fact Check-Event in Italy sparking transhumanism conspiracy theories is not organized by the Vatican

…By Reuters FactCheck A promotional flyer for a conference to be held… about the COVID–19 vaccine ( https://www.reuters.com/article/uk…

OCTOBER 21, 2021 02:52PM EDT

Fact Check-General de EEUU no “reprendió” al Secretario de Defensa

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 24 ago… contra el COVID–19 a los militares del país. La fuente de la…

AUGUST 24, 2021 08:34PM EDT

Fact Check-Needle in animal microchip video not used in COVID–19 vaccine injections

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a needle used to microchip animals… with COVID–19 vaccines because the needle in the video is more than…

MAY 27, 2021 04:49AM EDT

Fact Check-New Zealand pharmacy not giving ‘blue pills’ with vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck A photo of a blue jellybean in plastic wrapping… of a conspiracy to incite people to receive COVID–19 vaccines https…

OCTOBER 27, 2021 01:33PM EDT

Fact Check– False newscast about dead COVID–19 patient coming back to life taken seriously

…By Reuters FactCheck A satirical social media meme featuring… a zombie and saying a COVID–19 patient had come back to life, sparking…

MAY 21, 2021 02:49PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence that more people are hospitalized for COVID–19 vaccine complications and bacterial lung infections from masks than from the virus

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-reduce/fact–check–covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 02:53PM EDT

Fact Check-Deaths at Astroworld music festival were not caused by 5G

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are falsely claiming… by the activation of graphene oxide in COVID–19 vaccines (https://www.reuters.com…

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 02:53PM EST

Fact Check-Video does not show child having an adverse reaction to a COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a child having a seizure has been… by a COVID–19 vaccine. Shared more…

MAY 18, 2021 12:02PM EDT

Fact Check-Forbes headline that was updated for clarity continues to be taken out of context

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users pointed to a now-updated… Forbes Health headline that was interpreted as meaning that the COVID–19…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 10:30AM EST

Fact Check-Clip of California Governor manipulated to distort face

…By Reuters FactCheck A doctored video is being shared on social…-conditions/bells-palsy/symptoms-causes/syc-20370028 , from a COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 06:40AM EST

Fact Check-Event in Italy sparking transhumanism conspiracy theories is not organized by the Vatican

…By Reuters FactCheck A promotional flyer for a conference to be held… about the COVID–19 vaccine ( https://www.reuters.com/article/uk…

OCTOBER 21, 2021 02:52PM EDT

Fact Check-Claim about Pfizer ‘weekly vaccinations’ originated in satirical article

…By Reuters FactCheck Dec 14 (Reuters…-for-omicron-variant-covid–19-to-prevent-lockdown/ ) , a webpage…

DECEMBER 14, 2021 11:34AM EST

Fact Check-Detox baths with borax can be harmful, experts say

…By Reuters FactCheck Online advice encouraging social media users… themselves of ‘nanotechnology’ apparently present in the COVID–19 vaccines…

NOVEMBER 24, 2021 02:05PM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccine manufacturers did not avoid TV ads because of side effects; companies had to wait for full FDA approval

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that there are no television advertisements for the COVID–19 vaccines…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 10:49AM EDT

Fact Check-Screenshot claiming deaths from COVID–19 vaccines are higher than all vaccines combined since 1990 is not from VAERS website

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a screenshot… that claims the total number of deaths following the COVID–19 vaccine…

OCTOBER 06, 2021 11:35AM EDT

Fact Check-Unidentified particles in vaccine samples under the microscope are likely contamination

…By Reuters FactCheck A self-described osteopathic physician who… claims she saw a self-aware organism point at her from a sterile COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 02, 2021 12:15PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines have been proven to be effective, while vaccine efficacy figures are not estimates of survival rates

…-vaccine-comparison/fact–check-misleading-comparison-between-covid–19…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccinated-covid/fact–check-evidence-shows-people…

MAY 25, 2021 04:52AM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows parasitic worms inside grasshopper

…By Reuters FactCheck A graphic video has resurfaced online showing… COVID–19 have referenced the so-called Morgellons condition…

AUGUST 03, 2021 05:14AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence Omicron variant book existed before December 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck A self-published book about the Omicron variant… of COVID–19 – said to be copyrighted in 2020, before the variant’s…

DECEMBER 24, 2021 02:16PM EST

Fact Check-Justice Sotomayor misidentified dining out in Washington D.C.

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a photograph… carrying out her legal duties remotely due to COVID–19. Users cite a posting…

JANUARY 14, 2022 11:53AM EST

Fact Check-Photo shows 2018 protests in France, not 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck Users are miscaptioning a photograph that shows… a 2018 protest in France by claiming that it shows recent COVID–19…

JULY 16, 2021 03:07PM EDT

Fact Check-What is the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)?

… the arrival of COVID–19 vaccines, information contained in the VAERS system… FactCheck have failed to mention that reports in VAERS can be entered…

JANUARY 06, 2022 04:13PM EST

Fact Check– False newscast about dead COVID–19 patient coming back to life taken seriously

…By Reuters FactCheck A satirical social media meme featuring… a zombie and saying a COVID–19 patient had come back to life, sparking…

MAY 21, 2021 02:49PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence that more people are hospitalized for COVID–19 vaccine complications and bacterial lung infections from masks than from the virus

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-reduce/fact–check–covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 02:53PM EDT

Fact Check-Screenshot claiming deaths from COVID–19 vaccines are higher than all vaccines combined since 1990 is not from VAERS website

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a screenshot… that claims the total number of deaths following the COVID–19 vaccine…

OCTOBER 06, 2021 11:35AM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows parasitic worms inside grasshopper

…By Reuters FactCheck A graphic video has resurfaced online showing… COVID–19 have referenced the so-called Morgellons condition…

AUGUST 03, 2021 05:14AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence Omicron variant book existed before December 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck A self-published book about the Omicron variant… of COVID–19 – said to be copyrighted in 2020, before the variant’s…

DECEMBER 24, 2021 02:16PM EST

Fact Check-Justice Sotomayor misidentified dining out in Washington D.C.

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a photograph… carrying out her legal duties remotely due to COVID–19. Users cite a posting…

JANUARY 14, 2022 11:53AM EST

Fact Check-Police in Australia are not using a ‘Brown Note’ acoustic weapon on protesters

…. By Reuters FactCheck Victoria Police are not using a “Brown Note…-covid–19-cases-rise-2021-09-22/ and https://www.reuters.com/video/watch…

OCTOBER 01, 2021 10:47AM EDT

…By Reuters FactCheck Thousands of people have watched a video online… in which a man says England’s rollout of COVID–19 vaccines to 12…

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 11:24AM EDT

Fact Check-La vacuna del COVID–19 no ‘hackea’ el ADN

…Por Reuters FactCheck 7 abr (Reuters… vacuna contra el COVID–19 tiene la finalidad de reprogramar células humanas…

APRIL 07, 2021 12:48PM EDT

…By Reuters FactCheck There has been no change to the law on consent…/). This person also claims that COVID–19 vaccines…

JULY 21, 2021 08:20AM EDT

Fact Check-Britain’s lateral flow tests are not being recalled for safety issues

…By Reuters FactCheck Thousands of people have watched a woman… falsely claiming in a video online that all COVID–19 tests are being…

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 11:22AM EDT

Fact Check-Previous variants have been registered since the detection of Omicron

…By Reuters FactCheck Online claims that after a new variant of SARS… that COVID–19 variants do not exist, with comments like “Because…

DECEMBER 29, 2021 11:36AM EST

Fact Check-Las variantes del SARS-CoV-2 no surgieron tras la aplicación de las vacunas anti-COVID–19

…-variantesvacunas/fact–check-no-hay-evidencia-de-que-las-vacunas-contra-el-covid–19…/factcheck-covid-variantesvacunas/fact–check-no-hay-evidencia-de-que-las…

AUGUST 27, 2021 08:23PM EDT

Fact Check-Bill and Melinda Gates did not die in 2013

…By Reuters FactCheck The latest conspiracy theory to target… recipient of the COVID–19 vaccine had died in 2008 (https://www.reuters.com…

JULY 01, 2021 09:58AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccine manufacturers did not avoid TV ads because of side effects; companies had to wait for full FDA approval

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… that there are no television advertisements for the COVID–19 vaccines…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 10:49AM EDT

Fact Check-FDA says male infertility is not a known side-effect of ivermectin

…Fixing typos in verdict By Reuters FactCheck A 2011 study out… on social media as a supposed miracle cure against COVID–19, but the FDA…

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 01:40PM EDT

Fact Check-Data shows COVID–19 vaccines have saved thousands of lives; contrary claims have taken a PHE report out of context

…://www.reuters.com/article/fact–check–covid-england/fact–check-englands-covid…By Reuters FactCheck A misinterpretation of Public Health England…

JULY 14, 2021 09:00AM EDT

Fact Check-Video does not show vaccinated man collapsing in front of Prince Charles; clip predates COVID–19 vaccine rollout

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have miscaptioned a video… to the COVID–19 vaccine rollout. The 1 minute…

OCTOBER 25, 2021 01:13PM EDT

…By Reuters FactCheck There has been no change to the law on consent…/). This person also claims that COVID–19 vaccines…

JULY 21, 2021 08:20AM EDT

Fact Check-Britain’s lateral flow tests are not being recalled for safety issues

…By Reuters FactCheck Thousands of people have watched a woman… falsely claiming in a video online that all COVID–19 tests are being…

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 11:22AM EDT

Fact Check-Video does not show unvaccinated customer denied ATM access

…By Reuters FactCheck A short video of a Russian-speaking woman… that it reveals that COVID–19 vaccination passes are now required in order to access…

NOVEMBER 12, 2021 11:32AM EST

Fact Check-The Delta variant does exist, contrary to memes shared online

…By Reuters FactCheck The Delta variant of the coronavirus does exist…/what-do-we-know-about-the-new-covid–19-variants…

JULY 13, 2021 10:44AM EDT

Fact Check-Misleading headlines with Fauci statement about booster shots

…By Reuters FactCheck A statement by top U.S. infectious disease… expert Dr Anthony Fauci talking about COVID–19 vaccines, waning immunity…

NOVEMBER 17, 2021 01:58PM EST

…By Reuters FactCheck Thousands of people have watched a video online… in which a man says England’s rollout of COVID–19 vaccines to 12…

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 11:24AM EDT

Fact Check-La vacuna del COVID–19 no ‘hackea’ el ADN

…Por Reuters FactCheck 7 abr (Reuters… vacuna contra el COVID–19 tiene la finalidad de reprogramar células humanas…

APRIL 07, 2021 12:48PM EDT

Fact Check-The BBC did not publish false story on Tom Hanks arrest

…By Reuters FactCheck A screenshot purporting to show a British…) showing an article that is about COVID–19 vaccines. The headline…

AUGUST 09, 2021 04:26PM EDT

Fact Check-Footage shows 2019 Iraq protests, not 5G harm

…By Reuters FactCheck Videos of protesters hit by tear gas in Iraq… have received COVID–19 vaccines (graphic imagery warning; https…

JANUARY 06, 2022 10:06AM EST

Fact Check-Face masks do not contain nanoparticle ‘Morgellons’ parasites

…By Reuters FactCheck An image circulating online is not proof…-desk.org/articles/why-might-covid–19-test-swab-fibres-move-around…

AUGUST 02, 2021 02:32PM EDT

Fact Check-Meme does not show updated warning on tobacco packaging

…By Reuters FactCheck Smoking has long been associated… negative effects of COVID–19 vaccines are false…

JANUARY 12, 2022 10:31AM EST

Fact Check-Video of Dalila Jakupović collapsing at the Australian Open is from 2020

…By Reuters FactCheck Footage of tennis player Dalila Jakupović… was linked to COVID–19 vaccines. One Jan…

JANUARY 17, 2022 01:06PM EST

Fact Check-A four-page, yet to be peer-reviewed paper is not proof that COVID–19 vaccines cause 93% of deaths that occur after inoculation

…By Reuters FactCheck An online newsletter suggesting COVID–19…://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/30/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-dont…

JANUARY 07, 2022 01:56PM EST

Fact Check-Fauci, Marks did not say 40% to 50% of CDC and FDA employees are ‘refusing the COVID–19 vaccine’

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to claims by social media users, two… top U.S. officials involved in the COVID–19 vaccination rollout…

MAY 20, 2021 11:07AM EDT

Fact Check-FDA says male infertility is not a known side-effect of ivermectin

…Fixing typos in verdict By Reuters FactCheck A 2011 study out… on social media as a supposed miracle cure against COVID–19, but the FDA…

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 01:40PM EDT

Fact Check-Lauren Boebert’s restaurant did not receive a $233,305 PPP loan

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts are falsely saying that the restaurant… during the pandemic (https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid–19…

JULY 14, 2021 02:55PM EDT

Fact Check-Footage shows 2019 Iraq protests, not 5G harm

… to be from China By Reuters FactCheck Videos of protesters hit by tear… is causing the effects on those who have received COVID–19 vaccines (graphic…

JANUARY 10, 2022 11:03AM EST

Fact Check-Years-old content has been falsely used as imagery showing 2021 rallies in Athens over COVID–19 vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Aerial shots of protests held in Athens in 2018… July demonstrations against COVID–19 vaccine policy…

JULY 21, 2021 11:59AM EDT

Fact Check-Story about 27 U.S. Air Force pilots resigning over COVID–19 vaccine mandate comes from false news website

… spokesperson, adjusting verdict to reflect this. By Reuters FactCheck A baseless… have resigned their commission due to the COVID–19 vaccination mandate…

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 03:38PM EDT

Fact Check-La vacuna del COVID–19 no tiene una tasa de mortalidad del 33%

…-check-vaers-data-does-not-prove-thousands-died-from-receiving-covid–19…Por Reuters FactCheck 24 may (Reuters…

MAY 24, 2021 12:59PM EDT

Fact Check-Pandemic preparedness scenario is not evidence of an orchestrated disease outbreak

…By Reuters FactCheck Pandemic preparedness scenarios and symposiums… are not proof that the COVID–19 pandemic was planned, nor…

DECEMBER 17, 2021 02:50PM EST

Fact Check-Graphene oxide is not an ingredient in vitamin D product, Blackmores says

…By Reuters FactCheck Online claims that a vitamin D product made… with available COVID–19 vaccines since at least July 2021, as previously debunked…

JANUARY 07, 2022 12:44PM EST

Fact Check-Data shows COVID–19 vaccines have saved thousands of lives; contrary claims have taken a PHE report out of context

…://www.reuters.com/article/fact–check–covid-england/fact–check-englands-covid…By Reuters FactCheck A misinterpretation of Public Health England…

JULY 14, 2021 09:00AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence the COVID–19 vaccine will make the common cold or the flu ‘extremely lethal’

…-reproductivepro/fact–check–covid-vaccines-do-not-shed-from-one-person…By Reuters FactCheck A screenshot of a post in online internet forum…

MAY 13, 2021 12:28PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines do not kill more people than they save; FDA experts did not make this false claim

…, which gathers unverified user-submitted reports. By Reuters FactCheck…” revealed in a recorded meeting that COVID–19 vaccines kill more…

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 11:47AM EDT

Fact Check-Trump does not own half of Moderna, as posts claim

…By Reuters FactCheck Moderna, one of the pharmaceutical companies… spearheading COVID–19 vaccination efforts in the United States…

JUNE 02, 2021 05:15PM EDT

Fact Check-There is no evidence to suggest COVID–19 vaccines increase the risk of miscarriage  

…By Reuters FactCheck A widely shared blog post has claimed to have… “as a result of” expectant mothers getting a COVID–19 vaccine. The UK’s…

MARCH 31, 2021 11:15AM EDT

Fact Check-Muertes de concierto Astroworld en Houston no fueron provocadas por las vacunas contra el COVID–19

…/fact–check-astroworld-deaths-not-triggered-by-covid–19-vaccines…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 11 nov…

NOVEMBER 11, 2021 02:32PM EST

Fact Check-Video no muestra una protesta en Alemania por medidas contra el COVID–19, circula desde 2019

…Modifica titular Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE… los pasaportes de la vacuna contra el COVID–19…

DECEMBER 17, 2021 06:28PM EST

Fact Check-No fue creado un estudio falso para la inyección de refuerzo contra el COVID–19 de Biden

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 12 oct…, recibió su vacuna de refuerzo contra el COVID–19 en un “estudio…

OCTOBER 12, 2021 06:28PM EDT

Fact Check-Pandemic preparedness scenario is not evidence of an orchestrated disease outbreak

…By Reuters FactCheck Pandemic preparedness scenarios and symposiums… are not proof that the COVID–19 pandemic was planned, nor…

DECEMBER 17, 2021 02:50PM EST

Fact Check-Graphene oxide is not an ingredient in vitamin D product, Blackmores says

…By Reuters FactCheck Online claims that a vitamin D product made… with available COVID–19 vaccines since at least July 2021, as previously debunked…

JANUARY 07, 2022 12:44PM EST

Fact Check-Public Health England did not ‘admit’ that COVID–19 is not contagious

…By Reuters FactCheck An article shared online says Public Health… Health England Admits It Cannot Scientifically Prove That COVID–19…

MARCH 29, 2021 09:16AM EDT

Fact Check-Data from a study does not conclude that over 80% of pregnancies end in miscarriage after COVID–19 vaccinations; figures taken out of context

… FactCheck Online blogs and social media posts claim data compiled… following a COVID–19 vaccine in the first or second trimester. The posts…

AUGUST 04, 2021 05:19PM EDT

Fact Check-Data from a study does not conclude that over 80% of pregnancies end in miscarriage after COVID–19 vaccinations; figures taken out of context

… FactCheck Online blogs and social media posts claim data compiled… following a COVID–19 vaccine in the first or second trimester. The posts…

AUGUST 04, 2021 05:19PM EDT

Fact Check-Different methods used to report COVID–19 deaths are not proof pandemic is a scam

…By Reuters FactCheck Alternative ways of recording COVID–19 deaths…/). By contrast, one method used by the ONS is to record deaths where COVID–19…

MAY 13, 2021 04:43AM EDT

Fact Check-Turnaround on CDC face mask guidance based on reduction of COVID–19 cases and vaccine efficacy

…By Reuters FactCheck A viral tweet claims the latest change…) for fully vaccinated people is proof that the COVID–19 pandemic…

MAY 18, 2021 02:40PM EDT

Fact Check-No hay evidencia de que director de clínica alemana se suicidara para denunciar mentiras en torno al COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 25 nov… del coronavirus y la vacunación contra el COVID–19, aseguraron varios…

NOVEMBER 25, 2021 08:05PM EST

Fact Check-Fotografía muestra protesta en Rusia en 1991; no una manifestación en Francia contra el pase sanitario por COVID–19

… sanitario en párrafo 9 Por Reuters FactCheck 17 ago… pase sanitario por COVID–19 “Green Pass” en Francia, usuarios en redes…

AUGUST 17, 2021 11:52AM EDT

Fact Check-Face masks do not cause cancer and COVID–19 vaccines do not invalidate your insurance

…By Reuters FactCheck Inaccurate claims about face masks, COVID–19… this was misinformation. “Receiving a COVID–19…

MAY 13, 2021 10:44AM EDT

Fact Check-Image shows celebrations after France’s 2018 FIFA World Cup win, not demonstrations against COVID–19 measures in Paris

…By Reuters FactCheck A photograph showing celebrations after… COVID–19 measures gathered in Paris on July 24 (https…

JULY 27, 2021 07:56AM EDT

Fact Check-A two-year-old did not die during Pfizer’s pediatric COVID–19 vaccine trial

…By Reuters FactCheck A two-year-old did not die during Pfizer…-BioNTech’s ongoing COVID–19 vaccine trial in kids under 12, contrary…

MAY 12, 2021 01:38PM EDT

Fact Check-Footage shows Nov. 2020 protests against police violence in France, not against COVID–19 restrictions in Dec. 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck Images of a clash between demonstrators… claiming it depicts a 2021 protest related to COVID–19…

DECEMBER 13, 2021 02:59PM EST

Fact Check-Pre-print study that claimed 1 in 1,000 risk of myocarditis following COVID–19 vaccine was withdrawn due to miscalculation

…. By Reuters FactCheck A pre-print study which claimed that there is a 1… and social media posts as proof that the COVID–19 vaccine is unsafe for use…

OCTOBER 04, 2021 11:00AM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines do not kill more people than they save; FDA experts did not make this false claim

…, which gathers unverified user-submitted reports. By Reuters FactCheck…” revealed in a recorded meeting that COVID–19 vaccines kill more…

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 11:47AM EDT

Fact Check-Merged clips of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky discussing vaccine protection from severe COVID–19 are missing context

…By Reuters FactCheck Two merged clips of the Centre of Disease… the protection from COVID–19 for those vaccinated in March 2021 and August…

AUGUST 26, 2021 10:38AM EDT

Fact Check-Public Health England did not ‘admit’ that COVID–19 is not contagious

…By Reuters FactCheck An article shared online says Public Health… Health England Admits It Cannot Scientifically Prove That COVID–19…

MARCH 29, 2021 09:16AM EDT

Fact Check-Cuenta parodia, no expresidente mexicano, tuiteó sobre salud de López Obrador tras contagio de COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck 14 ene (Reuters… que había dado positivo a COVID–19 por segunda ocasión. Esta publicación…

JANUARY 14, 2022 01:19PM EST

Fact Check-Video de prueba de antígenos positiva de COVID–19 con agua muestra realización errónea del test, dice fabricante

…Por Reuters FactCheck 13 ene (Reuters… lectura positiva de COVID–19 en una prueba de antígenos ha sido…

JANUARY 13, 2022 10:50AM EST

Fact Check-Genomics England is owned by the UK Department for Health

…By Reuters FactCheck A video has confused some social media users…-minister-rejects-allegations-over-covid–19-failures-made-by-former-pm-2021…

JUNE 16, 2021 11:22AM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence airlines met to discuss banning vaccinated passengers

…By Reuters FactCheck Rumours of airlines discussing a potential ban… of using COVID–19 vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson…

JUNE 15, 2021 02:31PM EDT

…Refile to correct typo in paragraph 13 By Reuters FactCheck… by the UN, WHO and WEF, suggesting that COVID–19 is an orchestrated…

JUNE 19, 2021 02:50PM EDT

Fact Check-Los Angeles Chargers player suffered concussion during NFL game, not a heart issue initiated by a COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck Los Angeles Chargers’ Donald Parham Jr.’s heart… to his COVID–19 vaccination status…

DECEMBER 24, 2021 01:54PM EST

Fact Check-Un sitio web para “informar” sobre personas no vacunadas contra la COVID–19 se creó como sátira

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 17 ago… personas a denunciar a los no vacunados contra la COVID–19 a cambio…

AUGUST 17, 2021 08:01PM EDT

Fact Check-Red Cross is accepting plasma from people vaccinated against COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck The American Red Cross confirmed to Reuters… that they are allowing people who have received the COVID–19 vaccine…

MAY 04, 2021 11:36AM EDT

Fact Check-Video no muestra a bebé de mamá vacunada contra la COVID–19; instituciones de salud recomiendan la inoculación a embarazadas

…Corrige apellido en párrafo 9 Por Reuters FactCheck… vacunada contra la COVID–19. Esta y otras afirmaciones difundidas con el…

OCTOBER 01, 2021 04:02PM EDT

Fact Check-Sweden has not stopped using PCR tests

…By Reuters FactCheck The Swedish government has not suspended PCR… testing to identify COVID–19. The false…

JUNE 01, 2021 05:16AM EDT

Fact Check-El virus causante del COVID–19 ha sido aislado y secuenciado en España y otras partes del mundo

…Por Reuters FactCheck19 oct (Reuters… Ministerio de Sanidad de España para afirmar falsamente que el COVID–19…

OCTOBER 19, 2021 01:46PM EDT

Fact Check-Cantante italiano Michele Merlo murió de derrame cerebral, no por los efectos de la vacuna contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 2 jul… Michele Merlo falleció por los efectos de la vacuna contra el COVID–19…

JULY 02, 2021 07:55PM EDT

Fact Check-Preprint paper claiming COVID–19 vaccines have caused global increase in deaths and cases draws heavy criticism from experts

…Updated to correct typo in copy By Reuters FactCheck A personal, non…-peer-reviewed study claiming to reveal the global COVID–19 vaccine…

JANUARY 14, 2022 11:49AM EST

Fact Check-No hay evidencia de que las vacunas contra el COVID–19 produzcan las variantes del virus

…- Por Reuters FactCheck 16 ago (Reuters… donde se sugiere que las inmunizaciones contra el COVID–19 están…

AUGUST 16, 2021 09:31AM EDT

Fact Check-Algunas de estas fotos no corresponden con marchas contra las restricciones por la pandemia de COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck 21 jul (Reuters… restricciones por COVID–19. “Éstas protestas…

JULY 21, 2021 06:57PM EDT

Fact Check-Hydroxychloroquine cannot be made at home using fruit peel

…By Reuters FactCheck A widely shared video on social media… to treat COVID–19 after randomised control clinical trials found…

JUNE 04, 2021 02:20PM EDT

Fact Check-Preprint paper claiming COVID–19 vaccines have caused global increase in deaths and cases draws heavy criticism from experts

…By Reuters FactCheck A personal, non-peer-reviewed study claiming… to reveal the global COVID–19 vaccine rollout has increased deaths…

JANUARY 13, 2022 02:31PM EST

Fact Check-Preprint paper claiming COVID–19 vaccines have caused global increase in deaths and cases draws heavy criticism from experts

…Updated to correct typo in copy By Reuters FactCheck A personal, non…-peer-reviewed study claiming to reveal the global COVID–19 vaccine…

JANUARY 14, 2022 11:49AM EST

Fact Check-El virus causante del COVID–19 ha sido aislado y secuenciado en España y otras partes del mundo

…Por Reuters FactCheck19 oct (Reuters… Ministerio de Sanidad de España para afirmar falsamente que el COVID–19…

OCTOBER 19, 2021 01:46PM EDT

Fact Check-Contagio de coronavirus de Susana Giménez tras ser inmunizada contra COVID–19 no significa que vacunas no sirvan

…-factcheck-vaccine-covid-auburn-death/fact–check-vaccines-did…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 16 jun…

JUNE 16, 2021 05:38PM EDT

Fact Check– It is safe to receive a blood donation from a vaccinated person

…By Reuters FactCheck A social media video has falsely claimed… whether her friend – who she claims has received a COVID–19 vaccine…

MAY 25, 2021 08:41AM EDT

Fact Check-Gráfico difunde falsas recomendaciones para vacunados con CanSino

…Por Reuters FactCheck 16 jun (Reuters… contra COVID–19 requiere de dietas especiales”: ( https…

JUNE 16, 2021 04:51PM EDT

Fact Check-Fauci emails were not ‘leaked’ but obtained by FOIA

…By Reuters FactCheck Thousands of emails pertaining to National… was produced by the Reuters FactCheck team. Read more about our work to fact…

JUNE 04, 2021 10:55AM EDT

Fact Check-Las razones del rápido desarrollo de las vacunas del COVID–19 en comparación a otros tratamientos, según expertos

…Por Reuters FactCheck 18 oct (Reuters… información imprecisa en redes sociales. ¿Por qué las vacunas del COVID–19…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 09:57AM EDT

Fact Check-Biden’s skin tone ‘mismatch’ in video is not evidence of a deepfake

…-check-ceremony-honoring-500000-covid–19-deaths-was-not-filmed-at-a-fake…By Reuters FactCheck Claims on social media that U.S. President Joe…

MAY 25, 2021 12:07PM EDT

Fact Check-Lateral flow tests do not cause cancer or lung problems

…By Reuters FactCheck Lateral flow tests for COVID–19 are not harmful…/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957271/COVID–19…

MAY 25, 2021 12:20PM EDT

Fact Check-Argentina no cedió a Rusia rutas principales de aerolínea estatal a cambio de vacunas contra el COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 2 nov… contra el COVID–19. La información es falsa. Buenos Aires convino en…

NOVEMBER 02, 2021 06:57PM EDT

Fact Check-Daily COVID–19 deaths are currently low in Britain due to restrictions and the vaccination programme

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media posts have incorrectly claimed…/english-data-shows-vaccines-cut-household-covid–19-transmission-by-up-half…

APRIL 30, 2021 01:32PM EDT

Fact Check-Journal article questioning effectiveness of masks against COVID–19 is not a Stanford University study

…-factcheck-masks-fungal-lung-infection/fact–check-masks-worn-during-covid–19…://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-masks-lockdowns-covid/fact–check…

APRIL 29, 2021 11:20AM EDT

Fact Check-Video of maskless Democrats taken after CDC’s latest guidance

…By Reuters FactCheck A widely shared video on social media shows… public health guidance amid the COVID–19 pandemic. But the clip is missing…

MAY 26, 2021 11:45AM EDT

Fact Check-Contagio de coronavirus de Susana Giménez tras ser inmunizada contra COVID–19 no significa que vacunas no sirvan

…-factcheck-vaccine-covid-auburn-death/fact–check-vaccines-did…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 16 jun…

JUNE 16, 2021 05:38PM EDT

Fact Check-Lateral flow tests do not cause cancer or lung problems

…By Reuters FactCheck Lateral flow tests for COVID–19 are not harmful…/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957271/COVID–19…

MAY 25, 2021 12:20PM EDT

Fact Check-Biden’s skin tone ‘mismatch’ in video is not evidence of a deepfake

…-check-ceremony-honoring-500000-covid–19-deaths-was-not-filmed-at-a-fake…By Reuters FactCheck Claims on social media that U.S. President Joe…

MAY 25, 2021 12:07PM EDT

Fact Check-Reports about the COVID–19 outbreak in India are not ‘a UK government ploy to keep people terrified’

…By Reuters FactCheck Misleading comparisons have been made between… the COVID–19 outbreaks in India and the UK to suggest news reports have…

APRIL 29, 2021 01:49PM EDT

Fact Check-Motorized ‘spermbot’ has no connection to COVID–19 vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck A video circulating on social media claims… and Moderna COVID–19 vaccines – will “attack a sperm” and alter the DNA…

MARCH 19, 2021 07:23PM EDT

Fact Check-The Simpsons did not predict the 2021 gas shortages

…By Reuters FactCheck Posts claiming that popular animated series…. Reuters FactCheck has previously debunked claims…

MAY 19, 2021 02:36PM EDT

CORRECTED-Fact Check- COVID–19 vaccines are not experimental and they have not skipped trial stages 

… the pandemic. By Reuters FactCheck Claims that COVID…/2021/04/29/health/fda-approval-covid–19-vaccines-explainer/index.html…

APRIL 30, 2021 11:55AM EDT

Fact Check-Meme exaggerates U.S. inflation and immigration figures

…By Reuters FactCheck A meme shared thousands of times on Facebook… degrees, as has also been noted by the fact–checking organisation…

MAY 28, 2021 02:08PM EDT

Fact Check– Danish study did not conclude that COVID–19 vaccines adversely impact immune systems or that COVID–19 vaccines are completely ineffective against the Omicron variant

…By Reuters FactCheck A Danish preprint study did not conclude… that mRNA COVID–19 vaccines harm the immune system nor did the authors…

DECEMBER 29, 2021 12:59PM EST

Fact Check-Pandemic denial meme uses miscaptioned photograph

…By Reuters FactCheck A meme questioning the authenticity… that predates COVID–19. The accompanying text reads, “Can someone explain how we…

MAY 11, 2021 04:16PM EDT

Fact Check-There is no evidence to suggest COVID–19 vaccines will kill people by causing antibody- dependent enhancement, current evidence demonstrates the opposite

…By Reuters FactCheck A baseless quote has been widely attributed… enhancement after receiving a COVID–19 jab. There is no evidence…

MAY 26, 2021 08:25AM EDT

Fact Check-Photo does not show Dutch police intervening at a bar that swerved COVID–19 rules

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims that a widely shared photo shows… customers at a Dutch bar outsmarting local police on COVID–19 rules are false…

APRIL 23, 2021 12:52PM EDT

Fact Check-Michelle Obama’s 2020 DNC speech necklace spells ‘VOTE’

…By Reuters FactCheck Screenshots of former first lady Michelle Obama… FactCheck team. Read more about our fact–checking work  https…

MAY 12, 2021 04:08PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 is a contagious disease and is not caused by radiation poisoning

… Reuters FactCheck previously debunked the claim that COVID–19…-factcheck-radiation/fact–check–covid–19-is-not-a-smoke-screen…

MARCH 10, 2021 09:43AM EST

Fact Check–COVID–19 does exist and autopsies in Russia did not show otherwise

…By Reuters FactCheck Autopsies of COVID–19 victims in Russia have…://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-radiation/fact–check–covid–19…

APRIL 15, 2021 01:44PM EDT

Fact Check-UK government data does not show pandemic is a hoax

… Reuters has previously fact–checked for spreading COVID–19…/fact–check-staff-administering-covid–19-vaccines-are-not-war-criminals…

MAY 05, 2021 12:06PM EDT

Fact Check-Código QR en foto de Ivanka Trump vacunándose contra COVID–19 no está ligado a QAnon

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 22 abr… contra el COVID–19 el 14 de abril, conduce a un foro de internet…

APRIL 22, 2021 06:24PM EDT

Fact Check-Seven-point list provides false ‘evidence’ that the COVID–19 pandemic was planned

…-pandemic/fact–check-this-article-is-not-ultimate-proof-that-the-covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Posts showing a list of seven claims serving…

APRIL 12, 2021 01:25PM EDT

Fact Check–COVID–19 vaccines greatly reduce risk of severe illness or death

…By Reuters FactCheck A news report about a small number of people… contracting COVID–19 after being vaccinated is being taken out…

APRIL 13, 2021 01:37PM EDT

Fact Check-Pictured baby mask is a design created for pollution, not COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been sharing posts… to be for COVID–19 and was designed prior to the discovery of COVID–19…

MARCH 12, 2021 01:37PM EST

Fact Check-U.S. government guidance against use of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID–19 has not changed in 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been sharing posts… advising against treating COVID–19 with hydroxychloroquine or urging…

APRIL 14, 2021 06:04AM EDT

Fact Check-RT-PCR tests are highly accurate, Delta variant is determined through genomic sequencing

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-genomic-sequencing/fact–check–covid–19-variants…/fact–check-cdc-lab-update-on-covid–19-pcr-tests-misinterpreted…

OCTOBER 04, 2021 03:43PM EDT

Fact Check-Image of truck with text calling for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to resign is digitally-altered

…By Reuters FactCheck An image of a motorway blocked by a truck…!” On Aug. 30, truck drivers protested COVID–19…

AUGUST 31, 2021 10:47AM EDT

Fact Check-No hay pruebas de que las vacunas de ARNm contra COVID–19 reduzcan esperanza de vida o causen esterilidad

…-that-pfizers-covi/fact–check-no-evidence-that-pfizers-covid–19-vaccine…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 17 may…

MAY 17, 2021 05:40PM EDT

Fact Check-Conspiracy theory video claims Joe Biden stepped down as president

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to claims made in a misleading video… 6 insurrection, child trafficking, anti-mask COVID–19 sentiments…

DECEMBER 23, 2021 01:04PM EST

Fact Check-Widely shared Ohio school board meeting video contains misleading claims

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-depopulation/fact–check–covid–19…/factcheck-vaccines-infertility/fact–check-available-covid–19-vaccines…

AUGUST 25, 2021 04:16PM EDT

Fact Check-No evidence many Ontario hospital patients had unexplained symptoms due to vaccination

…/corrected-fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-are-not-experimental…://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-vaccine/fact–check–covid–19…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 10:45AM EDT

Fact Check-Image does not show an endangered butterfly species, but artist’s rendering

…By Reuters FactCheck An image of an insect with shimmering… fighting COVID–19 (https://www.instagram.com/p/B-158SrAXOR/), a dandelion…

MAY 11, 2021 11:39AM EDT

Fact Check-Photo shows thousands of people at a Moscow rally in 1991, not Vienna in 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck Hundreds of social media users have mistakenly… believing it to show a protest over COVID–19 measures in Vienna…

NOVEMBER 22, 2021 10:25AM EST

Fact Check-Lisbon court did not rule that there have only been 152 COVID deaths in Portugal

…By Reuters FactCheck A court in Lisbon did not rule that there had… only been 152 COVID–19 deaths in Portugal, as opposed to the official…

JANUARY 07, 2022 02:40PM EST

Fact Check-Posts featuring 818,042 ‘adverse vaccine events’ in U.S. distort data

…/fact–check-vaers-data-does-not-prove-over-2000-deaths-due-to-covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a post showing…

OCTOBER 27, 2021 03:31PM EDT

Fact Check-Fauci’s comments on the effectiveness of the COVID–19 vaccines misconstrued in video

…By Reuters FactCheck A highly edited video shared on Instagram… infectious disease expert, on why individuals with the COVID–19 vaccine…

MARCH 10, 2021 03:34PM EST

Fact Check-Yes, one Florida school says it won’t hire teachers who get the COVID–19 jab, but it’s false to say people ‘shed’ the vaccine

…By Reuters FactCheck A Facebook post suggesting multiple schools… in Florida have stopped hiring teachers based on their COVID–19…

MAY 04, 2021 10:50AM EDT

Fact Check-Noncompliant healthcare workers will not be replaced by unvaccinated FEMA workers, agency says

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… be vaccinated against COVID–19. FEMA is a federal…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 04:06PM EDT

Fact Check-Video of Dr Anthony Fauci discussing vaccines with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg does not say COVID–19 vaccines make recipients more vulnerable to infection.

…By Reuters FactCheck A clip shared widely online of Dr Anthony Fauci… to March 2020 and pre-dates COVID–19 vaccine rollouts by many months…

DECEMBER 16, 2021 11:22AM EST

Fact Check-EU’s von der Leyen did not call for abandonment of Nuremberg Code

…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nuremberg-mandate/fact–check–covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck European Commission President Ursula von der…

DECEMBER 08, 2021 03:54PM EST

Fact Check-300-word journal abstract is not proof of mRNA vaccines being used to ‘murder’

…By Reuters FactCheck A 300-word journal abstract that has been… previously been fact–checked by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article…

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 10:07AM EST

Fact Check-Multiple factors contributed to India’s second wave

…By Reuters FactCheck As India is in the grip of a deadly surge… of COVID–19 cases with at least 300,000 people testing positive daily…

MAY 03, 2021 09:52AM EDT

Fact Check-Reports to UK’s Yellow Card Scheme are not confirmed side effects of coronavirus vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck The false claim that reports to the British… side effects of COVID–19 vaccines is circulating again on social media…

AUGUST 09, 2021 04:47AM EDT

Fact Check-Britain’s vaccine advisory body did not say the risks outweigh the benefits for inoculating children

…By Reuters FactCheck A self-described lawyer has misquoted Britain’s… vaccine advisory committee on its advice about administering COVID–19…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 02:44AM EDT

Fact Check-‘Long COVID’ is not fake, quoted French study did not say it does not exist

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to claims made online, the condition… a COVID–19 infection, is real. A French study which the posts use…

NOVEMBER 16, 2021 01:48PM EST

Fact Check-Noncompliant healthcare workers will not be replaced by unvaccinated FEMA workers, agency says

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are falsely claiming… be vaccinated against COVID–19. FEMA is a federal…

OCTOBER 22, 2021 04:06PM EDT

Fact Check-UK passport holders must comply with the COVID–19 travel rules   

…By Reuters FactCheck Hundreds of Facebook users have distributed… False. Passport holders are legally bound to comply with COVID–19…

APRIL 15, 2021 01:07PM EDT

Fact Check-The WHO did not say 377 out of every 100,000 people die from COVID–19 vaccines 

…By Reuters FactCheck A Facebook user who says he is citing data from… 100,000 people are killed by a COVID–19 vaccine is spreading false…

APRIL 12, 2021 02:45PM EDT

Fact Check-Western Australian legislation uses ‘poison’ as a catch-all legal term; it is not implying something sinister

…By Reuters FactCheck Suggestions on social media that Western… Australia has slyly admitted to harming its citizens by classifying COVID–19…

JULY 13, 2021 11:29AM EDT

Fact Check-Western Australia Premier did not get COVID booster shot with ‘the cap still on’

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users have erroneously… claimed Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan “faked” his COVID–19 booster…

JANUARY 11, 2022 01:41PM EST

Fact Check-300-word journal abstract is not proof of mRNA vaccines being used to ‘murder’

…By Reuters FactCheck A 300-word journal abstract that has been… previously been fact–checked by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article…

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 10:07AM EST

Fact Check-Lower number of anti-N antibodies does not indicate lower immunity, say medical experts

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have misinterpreted… a British government report on COVID–19 vaccines, baselessly claiming…

NOVEMBER 23, 2021 11:50AM EST

Fact Check-The Delta variant death toll is not zero in the United States, as posts claim

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims that the Delta variant of the COVID–19… against COVID–19 to get their shots to protect themselves from the widely…

JULY 12, 2021 04:03PM EDT

Fact Check-Report on ‘CDC whistleblower’ saying vaccines ‘never meant to stop COVID’ from satirical website

…-check-story-about-27-u-s-air-force-pilots-resigning-over-covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a hoax article…

JANUARY 17, 2022 01:23PM EST

Fact Check-Syringe used to give booster shot to PM Johnson was not covered with a cap

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to claims made online, British Prime… Minister Boris Johnson did not receive his COVID–19 booster shot…

DECEMBER 03, 2021 06:28AM EST

Fact Check-Western Australia Premier did not get COVID booster shot with ‘the cap still on’

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users have erroneously… claimed Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan “faked” his COVID–19 booster…

JANUARY 11, 2022 01:41PM EST

Fact Check-Report about Australian hospitals overrun with victims of police brutality is satire

…By Reuters FactCheck A satirical report about police and COVID–19…). It is influenced by strict COVID–19 restrictions…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 09:59AM EDT

Fact Check-Asymptomatic people can infect others with COVID–19

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been sharing posts… for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website explains how COVID–19…

MARCH 05, 2021 11:53AM EST

Fact Check-Multiple factors contributed to India’s second wave

…By Reuters FactCheck As India is in the grip of a deadly surge… of COVID–19 cases with at least 300,000 people testing positive daily…

MAY 03, 2021 09:52AM EDT

Fact Check-NHS chief’s comment about hospital admissions ‘up 14 times on last year’ was referencing August data

…. Reuters checked the data, which showed there were 22,877 COVID–19…By Reuters FactCheck England’s National Health Service has clarified…

NOVEMBER 08, 2021 03:43PM EST

Fact Check-Irish barrister takes multiple facts out of context to bolster her opinion against COVID–19 restrictions  

… to curb the spread of COVID–19 – but has taken facts and figures out…By Reuters FactCheck A senior counsel has criticised measures used…

MARCH 18, 2021 07:13AM EDT

Fact Check-Primera plana de publicación irlandesa que cita a Bill Gates no es prueba de que la pandemia por COVID–19 fue planeada

…Por Reuters FactCheck 12 ago (Reuters… la pandemia por COVID–19 haya sido planeada o que es falsa…

AUGUST 12, 2021 12:32PM EDT

Fact Check-VAERS data does not prove thousands died from receiving COVID–19 vaccines

…-vaccines-infertility/fact–check-available-covid–19-vaccines…. By Reuters FactCheck Viewed more than 21,000 times on Facebook, a video…

APRIL 08, 2021 04:56PM EDT

Fact Check-Screenshot of French news clip altered to include image of hospital training with mannequin

…By Reuters FactCheck The screenshot of a news segment by French… this image claim the scene is evidence that the COVID–19 pandemic…

JANUARY 10, 2022 09:59AM EST

Fact Check-Purported ITV article about an individual with a bright red face following a vaccine is fabricated

…-check-purported-cnn-article-about-40-year-old-vaccinated-covid–19-victim…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been duped…

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 12:29PM EDT

Fact Check-Parents did not replace school board in Vail, Arizona

… paragraph By Reuters FactCheck A widely shared video showing… the spread of COVID–19 ( https://www.azfamily.com/news…

MAY 04, 2021 12:02PM EDT

Fact Check-Video of Dr Anthony Fauci discussing vaccines with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg does not say COVID–19 vaccines make recipients more vulnerable to infection.

…By Reuters FactCheck A clip shared widely online of Dr Anthony Fauci… to March 2020 and pre-dates COVID–19 vaccine rollouts by many months…

DECEMBER 16, 2021 11:22AM EST

Fact Check-Report about Australian hospitals overrun with victims of police brutality is satire

…By Reuters FactCheck A satirical report about police and COVID–19…). It is influenced by strict COVID–19 restrictions…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 09:59AM EDT

Fact Check-The Delta variant death toll is not zero in the United States, as posts claim

…By Reuters FactCheck Claims that the Delta variant of the COVID–19… against COVID–19 to get their shots to protect themselves from the widely…

JULY 12, 2021 04:03PM EDT

Fact Check-Syringe used to give booster shot to PM Johnson was not covered with a cap

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to claims made online, British Prime… Minister Boris Johnson did not receive his COVID–19 booster shot…

DECEMBER 03, 2021 06:28AM EST

Fact Check-News outlets did report on early indications of Omicron variant having ‘mild’ symptoms

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media claims that news networks never… about the latest COVID–19 variant causing concern, CDC experts say (https…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 04:58PM EST

Fact Check-Typo on Australian database wrongly says woman who experienced menstrual bleeding was six years old

…By Reuters FactCheck A typo on an Australian database of suspected… bleeding, after receiving a Pfizer/BioNTech COVID–19 vaccine…

DECEMBER 03, 2021 01:02PM EST

Fact Check-Las vacunas contra el COVID–19 no matan a más personas de las que salvan; expertos de la FDA de EEUU no hicieron esa falsa afirmación

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 30 sep…), reveló en una reunión grabada que las vacunas contra el COVID–19 matan…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 10:20AM EDT

Fact Check-6,000 VAERS reports were deleted for being foreign entries, CDC says

…-vaers-symptoms/fact–check-data-in-internet-posts-does-not-prove-covid…By Reuters FactCheck Users are claiming that the U.S. Centers…

AUGUST 02, 2021 01:14PM EDT

Fact Check-UK passport holders must comply with the COVID–19 travel rules   

…By Reuters FactCheck Hundreds of Facebook users have distributed… False. Passport holders are legally bound to comply with COVID–19…

APRIL 15, 2021 01:07PM EDT

Fact Check-Video no muestra protestas en Rumania contra las vacunas anti-COVID; fue tomado en 2017

…/fact–check-footage-doesnt-show-protest-against-covid–19-vaccines…Por Reuters FactCheck 7 oct (Reuters…

OCTOBER 07, 2021 11:26AM EDT

Fact Check-Bulgarian Chief State Health Inspector Dr Angel Kunchev is alive and did not die after booster dose

…By Reuters FactCheck Bulgaria’s Chief State Health Inspector, Dr… for the coronavirus, had mild COVID–19 symptoms and was on sick leave…

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 11:24AM EST

Fact Check-The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is named after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have made unfounded claims…://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-variants-alphabet/fact–check-who-skipped…

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 11:42AM EST

Fact Check-World Economic Forum did not report about Omicron variant in July

…By Reuters FactCheck An update in an article by the World Economic… entitled “Explainer: This is how scientists detect new variants of COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 27, 2021 02:09PM EST

Fact Check-The WHO did not say 377 out of every 100,000 people die from COVID–19 vaccines 

…By Reuters FactCheck A Facebook user who says he is citing data from… 100,000 people are killed by a COVID–19 vaccine is spreading false…

APRIL 12, 2021 02:45PM EDT

Fact Check-Purported ITV article about an individual with a bright red face following a vaccine is fabricated

…-check-purported-cnn-article-about-40-year-old-vaccinated-covid–19-victim…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have been duped…

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 12:29PM EDT

Fact Check-State premier did not say Australian hospitals are full of vaccine-injured patients

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are falsely claiming… with individuals injured by COVID–19 vaccines. In remarks last month…

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 08:21AM EST

Fact Check-Video does not show Australian police pushing man out of his wheelchair

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a clash between a Black Lives Matter… a protest against COVID–19 restrictions in Australia…

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 03:21PM EST

Fact Check-Clip of a British cabinet minister on a dancefloor is from the Conservative Party Conference

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of Britain’s housing secretary hitting… at Downing Street attended parties during a period of strict COVID–19…

DECEMBER 09, 2021 10:48AM EST

Fact Check-Widely shared photo does not show 2021 protests in France; it shows FIFA World Cup celebrations in 2018

…By Reuters FactCheck Hundreds of social media users have… vaccines for healthcare workers and COVID–19 health passes (https…

JULY 20, 2021 08:38AM EDT

…By Reuters FactCheck Dozens of social media users have reacted… policy on COVID–19 vaccines. The fire…

JULY 21, 2021 12:06PM EDT

Fact Check-News outlets did report on early indications of Omicron variant having ‘mild’ symptoms

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media claims that news networks never… about the latest COVID–19 variant causing concern, CDC experts say (https…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 04:58PM EST

Fact Check-Research abstract is not reliable evidence of a link between mRNA vaccines and heart disease

…By Reuters FactCheck A research abstract cited by commentators… as proof that COVID–19 vaccines increase a person’s risk of heart disease…

NOVEMBER 26, 2021 11:23AM EST

…By Reuters FactCheck British supermarket chain Tesco has not removed…”. Father Christmas is then seen at border control presenting a COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 01:06PM EST

Fact Check-The COVID–19 vaccine does not change recipients’ genetic makeup

…/article/uk-factcheck-vaccine/fact–check–covid–19-vaccines-have-been-shown…By Reuters FactCheck A Facebook post referring to debunked theories…

MARCH 04, 2021 04:57PM EST

Fact Check-Widely shared photo does not show anti-lockdown demonstrations on Bondi Beach

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have miscaptioned an image… demonstrating on Bondi beach against COVID–19 restrictions in Sydney…

AUGUST 25, 2021 08:33AM EDT

Fact Check-Controversial MIT study does not show that mRNA vaccines alter DNA

…By Reuters FactCheck A controversial study is being misrepresented… on social media as evidence that mRNA COVID–19 vaccines modify your DNA…

AUGUST 13, 2021 12:16PM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows Chinese schoolchildren wearing inflatable space suit costumes, not hazmat suits

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of children in China, has been… of Chinese space crew, not hazardous material suits for COVID–19 as some…

JANUARY 10, 2022 04:48PM EST

Fact Check-White House, CDC, FDA, NIAID, Pfizer and Moderna employees are subject to vaccine mandates

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are claiming that employees… against the COVID–19 virus. Biden also…

OCTOBER 01, 2021 02:39PM EDT

Fact Check-6,000 VAERS reports were deleted for being foreign entries, CDC says

…-vaers-symptoms/fact–check-data-in-internet-posts-does-not-prove-covid…By Reuters FactCheck Users are claiming that the U.S. Centers…

AUGUST 02, 2021 01:14PM EDT

Fact Check-Empty shelves pictured in a Belgian Carrefour were a result of strikes at distribution centres

…By Reuters FactCheck A Eurosceptic social media account has made… reported shortages of labour in the wake of Brexit and COVID–19 (https…

OCTOBER 07, 2021 08:22AM EDT

Fact Check-Image of NBA player Draymond Green wearing vaccine message is digitally altered

…By Reuters FactCheck An image shared thousands of times on social…-covid–19-restrictions-espn-2021-09-29…

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 12:37PM EDT

Fact Check-Zello ‘walkie-talkie’ natural disaster app requires internet access

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are recommending that people…-hurricane-covid–19-taxes-hospitals-2021-08-29…

SEPTEMBER 01, 2021 12:32PM EDT

Fact Check-Video takes footage out of context and features clips of retractable needles

… By Reuters FactCheck A montage video circulating on social media of people… receiving their COVID–19 shots makes the unfounded claim…

JULY 29, 2021 09:28AM EDT

Fact Check-Clip of a British cabinet minister on a dancefloor is from the Conservative Party Conference

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of Britain’s housing secretary hitting… at Downing Street attended parties during a period of strict COVID–19…

DECEMBER 09, 2021 10:48AM EST

…By Reuters FactCheck Dozens of social media users have reacted… policy on COVID–19 vaccines. The fire…

JULY 21, 2021 12:06PM EDT

Fact Check-Omicron does not have a 100% survival rate, as posts online claim

…By Reuters FactCheck Contrary to online claims, the Omicron variant… of COVID–19 does not have a 100% survival rate, as some social media…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 04:16PM EST

Fact Check-Video does not show Australian police pushing man out of his wheelchair

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of a clash between a Black Lives Matter… a protest against COVID–19 restrictions in Australia…

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 03:21PM EST

Fact Check-State premier did not say Australian hospitals are full of vaccine-injured patients

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are falsely claiming… with individuals injured by COVID–19 vaccines. In remarks last month…

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 08:21AM EST

Fact Check-La presidenta del Comisión Europea no pidió eliminar el Código Nuremberg

…-nuremberg-mandate/fact–check–covid–19-public-health-measures-do…Corrige error gramatical en párrafo 6 Por Reuters FactCheck…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 11:20AM EST

Fact Check– Macron no dijo “esta vez se queda usted en casa, no nosotros” a no vacunados

…Por Reuters FactCheck 23 jul (Reuters…-19 ( https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-make-covid–19-shot…

JULY 23, 2021 03:43PM EDT

Fact Check-Image of Boris Johnson standing alongside empty grocery shelves is digitally altered

…By Reuters FactCheck An image of British Prime Minister Boris…-2021-08-17/). “Despite COVID–19…

AUGUST 25, 2021 08:45AM EDT

Fact Check-American Academy of Pediatrics said documents moved as part of website migration

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are claiming…://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid–19-infections/clinical…

AUGUST 20, 2021 02:37PM EDT

Fact Check-Colombia sí recibirá donaciones de vacunas contra la COVID–19 de Estados Unidos a través de COVAX, pero no de un lote de 500 millones

…Por Reuters FactCheck 1 jul (Reuters… ese mismo día sobre vacunas contra la COVID–19. Entonces, el gobierno…

JULY 01, 2021 01:46PM EDT

…By Reuters FactCheck White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has… comments that social media companies should do more to fight COVID–19…

JULY 20, 2021 11:50AM EDT

Fact Check-Belgrade protest was held in response to violence against anti-mining activists

…By Reuters FactCheck A photo of crowds marching through Belgrade has… been used on social media to suggest it shows a protest over COVID–19…

NOVEMBER 30, 2021 10:27AM EST

Fact Check-Omicron variant did not arise as punishment for South Africa delaying receiving vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck The Omicron variant did not arise… in retaliation for South Africa’s decision to delay taking delivery of COVID–19…

DECEMBER 06, 2021 01:18PM EST

Fact Check-Article examining the probability of Omicron variant breakthrough cases is misinterpreted online

…-health-coronavirus/fact–check-there-is-no-evidence-to-suggest-covid–19…By Reuters FactCheck New data from the U.K.’s Office for National…

DECEMBER 23, 2021 01:37PM EST

Fact Check-‘I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life’ monologue not authored by French president

…Corrected crowd size in paragraph 2 By Reuters FactCheck A social… media commentary by an Italian journalist about people wary of COVID–19…

JULY 23, 2021 11:41AM EDT

Fact Check-Video shows Chinese schoolchildren wearing inflatable space suit costumes, not hazmat suits

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of children in China, has been… of Chinese space crew, not hazardous material suits for COVID–19 as some…

JANUARY 10, 2022 04:48PM EST

Fact Check-Controversial MIT study does not show that mRNA vaccines alter DNA

…By Reuters FactCheck A controversial study is being misrepresented… on social media as evidence that mRNA COVID–19 vaccines modify your DNA…

AUGUST 13, 2021 12:16PM EDT

Fact Check– German protester dressed as Santa Claus was led away by officers after refusing to show ID, police say

…By Reuters FactCheck A video clip showing a man dressed as Santa… meeting at the city’s market square to demonstrate against COVID–19…

DECEMBER 14, 2021 02:48PM EST

Fact Check-Video does not show spoof Christmas Eve party outside British government HQ

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of people dancing at a protest rave… by officials during COVID–19 lockdowns last year which critics said…

DECEMBER 27, 2021 01:07PM EST

Fact Check-Video no muestra manifestación en Austria contra confinamiento a personas no vacunadas; circula desde 2019

…Por Reuters FactCheck 18 nov (Reuters… contra el COVID–19. “Austria se levanta…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 04:31PM EST

Fact Check-No evidence leaders of Haiti, Tanzania and Zambia died due to vaccine rejection

…-for-opposing-covid–19-vaccination-idUSL2N2NP2SW) and other fact-checkers…By Reuters FactCheck A meme has falsely suggested a link between…

JULY 14, 2021 08:52AM EDT

Fact Check-WHO chief’s stutter while speaking about booster shots triggers conspiracy

…By Reuters FactCheck A video showing the head of World Health… to the clip to erroneously claim he “admitted” or “revealed” COVID–19…

DECEMBER 29, 2021 10:16AM EST

Fact Check-CBC Edmonton news report featuring a mannequin was filmed at a training facility, not in a hospital Intensive Care Unit

…By Reuters FactCheck A news report released by CBC Edmonton on how… in another report about COVID–19 projections for Alberta (https…

OCTOBER 12, 2021 02:17PM EDT

Fact Check-Video of Britain’s former health minister doing karaoke is from 2017

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of Britain’s former health minister… at No. 10 have been accused of breaking COVID–19 rules to throw…

DECEMBER 10, 2021 12:09PM EST

Fact Check-Las vacunas contra el COVID–19 no matan a más personas de las que salvan; expertos de la FDA de EEUU no hicieron esa falsa afirmación

…Por Reuters FactCheck CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 30 sep…), reveló en una reunión grabada que las vacunas contra el COVID–19 matan…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 10:20AM EDT

Fact Check-Media reports have not lied about Pfizer-BioNTech’s FDA approval

… corrected. By Reuters FactCheck News reports did… not mislead the public that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID–19 vaccine was approved…

DECEMBER 21, 2021 08:44AM EST

Fact Check-Video shows 2019 football fans, not anti-lockdown protest in Austria

…By Reuters FactCheck A video of football fans marching…-to-enforce-covid–19-lockdown-unvaccinated-2021-11-15…

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 03:38PM EST

Fact Check-Images do not show empty shelves in U.S. supermarkets in October 2021

…By Reuters FactCheck Alongside hashtags like #BidenEmptyShelves… the COVID–19 pandemic, thanks to more than $10 trillion in global economic…

OCTOBER 15, 2021 02:20PM EDT

Fact Check-Video is not evidence Fauci was plotting for a ‘new avian flu virus’ to enforce universal influenza vaccines

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are sharing a video from… based on messenger RNA, the same technology used in the COVID–19 shots…

OCTOBER 12, 2021 02:14PM EDT

Fact Check-Fences were not put up at a festive celebration in the Netherlands to prevent unvaccinated people from seeing Santa Claus

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users have claimed that fences… be controlled in order to adhere to COVID–19 rules…

NOVEMBER 23, 2021 11:59AM EST

Fact Check-Christmas tuberculosis public health poster altered to include guidance about masking

…By Reuters FactCheck An edited 1919 Christmas poster about fighting… to recommended measures for reducing the spread of COVID–19…

DECEMBER 31, 2021 11:08AM EST

Fact Check-60% of people in hospital in UK were unvaccinated; UK government’s chief scientific adviser corrected an earlier statement

…By Reuters FactCheck The British government’s chief scientific… briefing stating that 60% of people in hospital with COVID–19 are double…

JULY 27, 2021 12:26PM EDT

Fact Check-El gobierno del estado mexicano de Guanajuato no anunció el “cierre de varias zonas” y otras medidas contra la COVID–19

…Por Reuters FactCheck 10 ago (Reuters… medio de un alza en los contagios por COVID–19 en México, que se acerca…

AUGUST 10, 2021 12:30PM EDT

Fact Check-Image of Boris Johnson standing alongside empty grocery shelves is digitally altered

…By Reuters FactCheck An image of British Prime Minister Boris…-2021-08-17/). “Despite COVID–19…

AUGUST 25, 2021 08:45AM EDT

Fact Check-American Academy of Pediatrics said documents moved as part of website migration

…By Reuters FactCheck Social media users are claiming…://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid–19-infections/clinical…

AUGUST 20, 2021 02:37PM EDT

Fact Check-La presidenta del Comisión Europea no pidió eliminar el Código Nuremberg

…-nuremberg-mandate/fact–check–covid–19-public-health-measures-do…Corrige error gramatical en párrafo 6 Por Reuters FactCheck…

DECEMBER 22, 2021 11:20AM EST

Fact Check-‘Vaccine bandits’ are not taking to the streets of L.A.; TikTok video made as a joke

…By Reuters FactCheck A satirical video posted on TikTok…). As of Aug. 12, 2021, COVID–19 vaccinations remains optional…

AUGUST 13, 2021 12:19PM EDT

Fact Check-German institute did not report 96% of Omicron cases fully vaccinated

…By Reuters FactCheck Some social media users are sharing claims… context. The weekly report by RKI on COVID–19 cases included an error…

JANUARY 04, 2022 12:01PM EST

Fact Check-Esta fotografía de presidente mexicano sin cubrebocas circula desde mayo 2019

…Por Reuters FactCheck 3 nov (Reuters… pandemia por COVID–19; sin embargo, la misma fotografía circula en…

NOVEMBER 03, 2021 04:42PM EDT

Fact Check-Spain’s health  ministry  did not ‘admit’ that SARS-CoV-2 is yet to be isolated 

…By Reuters FactCheck Spain’s health ministry did not tell activists…-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID–19 disease, “has never been isolated…

OCTOBER 18, 2021 02:19PM EDT

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30 Facts You Need to Know: Your Covid Cribsheet

Posted on January 17, 2022 by mekorganic

30 Facts You Need to Know: Your Covid Cribsheet – A Collection of All the Arguments You’ll Ever Need.

30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet

You asked for it, so we made it. A collection of all the arguments you’ll ever need.

by Kit Knightly, OffGuardian
September 23, 2021

We get a lot of e-mails and private messages along these lines “do you have a source for X?” or “can you point me to mask studies?” or “I know I saw a graph for mortality, but I can’t find it anymore”. And we understand, it’s been a long 18 months, and there are so many statistics and numbers to try and keep straight in your head.

So, to deal with all these requests, we decided to make a bullet-pointed and sourced list for all the key points. A one-stop-shop.

Here are key facts and sources about the alleged “pandemic”, that will help you get a grasp on what has happened to the world since January 2020, and help you enlighten any of your friends who might be still trapped in the New Normal fog:

PART I: “COVID DEATHS” & MORTALITY

1. The survival rate of “Covid” is over 99%. Government medical experts went out of their way to underline, from the beginning of the pandemic, that the vast majority of the population are not in any danger from Covid. https://www.youtube.com/embed/adj8MCsZKlg

Almost all studies on the infection-fatality ratio (IFR) of Covid have returned results between 0.04% and 0.5%. Meaning Covid’s survival rate is at least 99.5%.

2. There has been NO unusual excess mortality. The press has called 2020 the UK’s “deadliest year since world war two”, but this is misleading because it ignores the massive increase in the population since that time. A more reasonable statistical measure of mortality is Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR):

By this measure, 2020 isn’t even the worst year for mortality since 2000, In fact since 1943 only 9 years have been better than 2020.

Similarly, in the US the ASMR for 2020 is only at 2004 levels:

For a detailed breakdown of how Covid affected mortality across Western Europe and the US click here. What increases in mortality we have seen could be attributable to non-Covid causes [facts 7, 9 & 19].

3. “Covid death” counts are artificially inflated. Countries around the globe have been defining a “Covid death” as a “death by any cause within 28/30/60 days of a positive test”.

Healthcare officials from Italy, Germany, the UK, US, Northern Ireland and others have all admitted to this practice:

Removing any distinction between dying of Covid, and dying of something else after testing positive for Covid will naturally lead to over-counting of “Covid deaths”. British pathologist Dr John Lee was warning of this “substantial over-estimate” as early as last spring. Other mainstream sources have reported it, too.

Considering the huge percentage of “asymptomatic” Covid infections [14], the well-known prevalence of serious comorbidities [fact 4] and the potential for false-positive tests [fact 18], this renders the Covid death numbers an extremely unreliable statistic.

4. The vast majority of covid deaths have serious comorbidities. In March 2020, the Italian government published statistics showing 99.2% of their “Covid deaths” had at least one serious comorbidity.

These included cancer, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s, kidney failure and diabetes (among others). Over 50% of them had three or more serious pre-existing conditions.

This pattern has held up in all other countries over the course of the “pandemic”. An October 2020 FOIA request to the UK’s ONS revealed less than 10% of the official “Covid death” count at that time had Covid as the sole cause of death.

5. Average age of “Covid death” is greater than the average life expectancy. The average age of a “Covid death” in the UK is 82.5 years. In Italy it’s 86. Germany, 83. Switzerland, 86. Canada, 86. The US, 78, Australia, 82.

In almost all cases the median age of a “Covid death” is higher than the national life expectancy.

As such, for most of the world, the “pandemic” has had little-to-no impact on life expectancy. Contrast this with the Spanish flu, which saw a 28% drop in life expectancy in the US in just over a year. [source]

6. Covid mortality exactly mirrors the natural mortality curve. Statistical studies from the UK and India have shown that the curve for “Covid death” follows the curve for expected mortality almost exactly:

The risk of death “from Covid” follows, almost exactly, your background risk of death in general.

The small increase for some of the older age groups can be accounted for by other factors.[facts 7, 9 & 19]

7. There has been a massive increase in the use of “unlawful” DNRs. Watchdogs and government agencies have reported huge increases in the use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs) over the last twenty months.

In the US, hospitals considered “universal DNRs” for any patient who tested positive for Covid, and whistleblowing nurses have admitted the DNR syste m was abused in New York.

In the UK there was an “unprecdented” rise in “illegal” DNRs for disabled people, GP surgeries sent out letters to non-terminal patients recommending they sign DNR orders, whilst other doctors signed “blanket DNRs” for entire nursing homes.

A study done by Sheffield Univerisity found over one-third of all “suspected” Covid patients had a DNR attached to their file within 24 hours of hospital admission.

Blanket use of coerced or illegal DNR orders could account for any increases in mortality in 2020/21.[Facts 2 & 6]

PART II: LOCKDOWNS

8. Lockdowns do not prevent the spread of disease. There is little to no evidence lockdowns have any impact on limiting “Covid deaths”. If you compare regions that locked down to regions that did not, you can see no pattern at all.

“Covid deaths” in Florida (no lockdown) vs California (lockdown)

“Covid deaths” in Sweden (no lockdown) vs UK (lockdown)

9. Lockdowns kill people. There is strong evidence that lockdowns – through social, economic and other public health damage – are deadlier than the “virus”.

Dr David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for Covid-19 described lockdowns as a “global catastrophe” in October 2020:

We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of the virus[…] it seems we may have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition […] This is a terrible, ghastly global catastrophe.”

A UN report from April 2020 warned of 100,000s of children being killed by the economic impact of lockdowns, while tens of millions more face possible poverty and famine.

Unemployment, poverty, suicide, alcoholism, drug use and other social/mental health crises are spiking all over the world. While missed and delayed surgeries and screenings are going to see increased mortality from heart disease, cancer et al. in the near future.

The impact of lockdown would account for the small increases in excess mortality [Facts 2 & 6]

10. Hospitals were never unusually over-burdened. the main argument used to defend lockdowns is that “flattening the curve” would prevent a rapid influx of cases and protect healthcare systems from collapse. But most healthcare systems were never close to collapse at all.

In March 2020 it was reported that hospitals in Spain and Italy were over-flowing with patients, but this happens every flu season. In 2017 Spanish hospitals were at 200% capacity, and 2015 saw patients sleeping in corridors. A paper JAMA paper from March 2020 found that Italian hospitals “typically run at 85-90% capacity in the winter months”.

In the UK, the NHS is regularly stretched to breaking point over the winter.

As part of their Covid policy, the NHS announced in Spring of 2020 that they would be “re-organizing hospital capacity in new ways to treat Covid and non-Covid patients separately” and that “as result hospitals will experience capacity pressures at lower overall occupancy rates than would previously have been the case.”

This means they removed thousands of beds. During an alleged deadly pandemic, they reduced the maximum occupancy of hospitals. Despite this, the NHS never felt pressure beyond your typical flu season, and at times actually had 4x more empty beds than normal.

In both the UK and US millions were spent on temporary emergency hospitals that were never used.

PART III: PCR TESTS

11. PCR tests were not designed to diagnose illness. The Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test is described in the media as the “gold standard” for Covid diagnosis. But the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the process never intended it to be used as a diagnostic tool, and said so publicly:

PCR is just a process that allows you to make a whole lot of something out of something. It doesn’t tell you that you are sick, or that the thing that you ended up with was going to hurt you or anything like that.

12. PCR Tests have a history of being inaccurate and unreliable. The “gold standard” PCR tests for Covid are known to produce a lot of false-positive results, by reacting to DNA material that is not specific to Sars-Cov-2.

A Chinese study found the same patient could get two different results from the same test on the same day. In Germany, tests are known to have reacted to common cold viruses. A 2006 study found PCR tests for one virus responded to other viruses too. In 2007, a reliance on PCR tests resulted in an “outbreak” of Whooping Cough that nev e r actually existed. Some tests in the US even reacted to the negative control sample.

The late President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, submitted samples goat, pawpaw and motor oil for PCR testing, all came back positive for the virus.

As early as February of 2020 experts were admitting the test was unreliable. Dr Wang Cheng, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences told Chinese state television “The accuracy of the tests is only 30-50%”. The Australian government’s own website claimed “There is limited evidence available to assess the accuracy and clinical utility of available COVID-19 tests.” And a Portuguese court ruled that PCR tests were “unreliable” and should not be used for diagnosis.

You can read detailed breakdowns of the failings of PCR tests here, here and here.

13. The CT values of the PCR tests are too high. PCR tests are run in cycles, the number of cycles you use to get your result is known as your “cycle threshold” or CT value. Kary Mullis said: “If you have to go more than 40 cycles[…]there is something seriously wrong with your PCR.”

The MIQE PCR guidelines agree, stating: “[CT] values higher than 40 are suspect because of the implied low efficiency and generally should not be reported,” Dr Fauci himself even admitted anything over 35 cycles is almost never culturable.

Dr Juliet Morrison, virologist at the University of California, Riverside, told the New York Times: Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive…I’m shocked that people would think that 40 [cycles] could represent a positive…A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35″.

In the same article Dr Michael Mina, of the Harvard School of Public Health, said the limit should be 30, and the author goes on to point out that reducing the CT from 40 to 30 would have reduced “covid cases” in some states by as much as 90%.

The CDC’s own data suggests no sample over 33 cycles could be cultured, and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute says nothing over 30 cycles is likely to be infectious.

Despite this, it is known almost all the labs in the US are running their tests at least 37 cycles and sometimes as high as 45. The NHS “standard operating procedure” for PCR tests rules set the limit at 40 cycles.

Based on what we know about the CT values, the majority of PCR test results are at best questionable.

14. The World Health Organization (Twice) Admitted PCR tests produced false positives. In December 2020 WHO put out a briefing memo on the PCR process instructing labs to be wary of high CT values causing false positive results:

when specimens return a high Ct value, it means that many cycles were required to detect virus. In some circumstances, the distinction between background noise and actual presence of the target virus is difficult to ascertain.

Then, in January 2021, the WHO released another memo, this time warning that “asymptomatic” positive PCR tests should be re-tested because they might be false positives:

Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.

15. The scientific basis for Covid tests is questionable. The genome of the Sars-Cov-2 virus was supposedly sequenced by Chinese scientists in December 2019, then published on January 10th 2020. Less than two weeks later, German virologists (Christian Drosten et al.) had allegedly used the genome to create assays for PCR tests.

They wrote a paper, Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR, which was submitted for publication on January 21st 2020, and then accepted on January 22nd. Meaning the paper was allegedly “peer-reviewed” in less than 24 hours. A process that typically takes weeks.

Since then, a consortium of over forty life scientists has petitioned for the withdrawal of the paper, writing a lengthy report detailing 10 major errors in the paper’s methodology.

They have also requested the release of the journal’s peer-review report, to prove the paper really did pass through the peer-review process. The journal has yet to comply.

The Corman-Drosten assays are the root of every Covid PCR test in the world. If the paper is questionable, every PCR test is also questionable.

PART IV: “ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION”

16. The majority of Covid infections are “asymptomatic”. From as early as March 2020, studies done in Italy were suggesting 50-75% of positive Covid tests had no symptoms. Another UK study from August 2020 found as much as 86% of “Covid patients” experienced no viral symptoms at all.

It is literally impossible to tell the difference between an “asymptomatic case” and a false-positive test result.

17. There is very little evidence supporting the alleged danger of “asymptomatic transmission”. In June 2020, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said:

From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,”

A meta-analysis of Covid studies, published by Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2020, found that asymptomatic carriers had a less than 1% chance of infecting people within their household. Another study, done on influenza in 2009, found:

…limited evidence to suggest the importance of [asymptomatic] transmission. The role of asymptomatic or presymptomatic influenza-infected individuals in disease transmission may have been overestimated…”

Given the known flaws of the PCR tests, many “asymptomatic cases” may be false positives.[fact 14]

PART V: VENTILATORS

18. Ventilation is NOT a treatment for respiratory viruses. Mechanical ventilation is not, and never has been, recommended treatment for respiratory infection of any kind. In the early days of the pandemic, many doctors came forward questioning the use of ventilators to treat “Covid”.

Writing in The Spectator, Dr Matt Strauss stated:

Ventilators do not cure any disease. They can fill your lungs with air when you find yourself unable to do so yourself. They are associated with lung diseases in the public’s consciousness, but this is not in fact their most common or most appropriate application.

German Pulmonologist Dr Thomas Voshaar, chairman of Association of Pneumatological Clinics said:

When we read the first studies and reports from China and Italy, we immediately asked ourselves why intubation was so common there. This contradicted our clinical experience with viral pneumonia.

Despite this, the WHO, CDC, ECDC and NHS all “recommended” Covid patients be ventilated instead of using non-invasive methods.

This was not a medical policy designed to best treat the patients, but rather to reduce the hypothetical spread of Covid by preventing patients from exhaling aerosol droplets.

19. Ventilators killed people. Putting someone on a ventilator who is suffering from influenza, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or any other condition which restricts breathing or affects the lungs, will not alleviate any of those symptoms. In fact, it will almost certainly make it worse, and will kill many of them.

Intubation tubes are a source of potential a infection known as “ventilator-associated pneumonia”, which studies show affects up to 28% of all people put on ventilators, and kills 20-55% of those infected.

Mechanical ventilation is also damaging to the physical structure of the lungs, resulting in “ventilator-induced lung injury”, which can dramatically impact quality of life, and even result in death.

Experts estimate 40-50% of ventilated patients die, regardless of their disease. Around the world, between 66 and 86% of all “Covid patients” put on ventilators died.

According to the “undercover nurse”, ventilators were being used so improperly in New York, they were destroying patients’ lungs:https://www.youtube.com/embed/UIDsKdeFOmQ

This policy was negligence at best, and potentially deliberate murder at worst. This misuse of ventilators could account for any increase in mortality in 2020/21 [Facts 2 & 6]

PART VI: MASKS

20. Masks don’t work. At least a dozen scientific studies have shown that masks do nothing to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.

One meta-analysis published by the CDC in May 2020 found “no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks”.

Another study with over 8000 subjects found masks “did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections nor against clinical respiratory infection.”

There are literally too many to quote them all, but you can read them: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Or read a summary by SPR here.

While some studies have been done claiming to show mask do work for Covid, they are all seriously flawed. One relied on self-reported surveys as data. Another was so badly designed a panel of experts demand it be withdrawn. A third was withdrawn after its predictions proved entirely incorrect.

The WHO commissioned their own meta-analysis in the Lancet, but that study looked only at N95 masks and only in hospitals. [For full run down on the bad data in this study click here.]

Aside from scientific evidence, there’s plenty of real-world evidence that masks do nothing to halt the spread of disease.

For example, North Dakota and South Dakota had near-identical case figures, despite one having a mask-mandate and the other not:

In Kansas, counties without mask mandates actually had fewer Covid “cases” than counties with mask mandates. And despite masks being very common in Japan, they had their worst flu outbreak in decades in 2019.

21. Masks are bad for your health. Wearing a mask for long periods, wearing the same mask more than once, and other aspects of cloth masks can be bad for your health. A long study on the detrimental effects of mask-wearing was recently published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Dr. James Meehan reported in August 2020 he was seeing increases in bacterial pneumonia, fungal infections, facial rashes.

Masks are also known to contain plastic microfibers, which damage the lungs when inhaled and may be potentially carcinogenic.

Childen wearing masks encourages mouth-breathing, which results in facial deformities.

People around the world have passed out due to CO2 poisoning while wearing their masks, and some children in China even suffered sudden cardiac arrest.

22. Masks are bad for the planet. Millions upon millions of disposable masks have been used per month for over a year. A report from the UN found the Covid19 pandemic will likely result in plastic waste more than doubling in the next few years., and the vast majority of that is face masks.

The report goes on to warn these masks (and other medical waste) will clog sewage and irrigation systems, which will have knock on effects on public health, irrigation and agriculture.

A study from the University of Swansea found “heavy metals and plastic fibres were released when throw-away masks were submerged in water.” These materials are toxic to both people and wildlife.

PART VII: VACCINES

23. Covid “vaccines” are totally unprecedented. Before 2020 no successful vaccine against a human coronavirus had ever been developed. Since then we have allegedly made 20 of them in 18 months.

Scientists have been trying to develop a SARS and MERS vaccine for years with little success. Some of the failed SARS vaccines actually caused hypersensitivity to the SARS virus. Meaning that vaccinated mice could potentially get the disease more severely than unvaccinated mice. Another attempt caused liver damage in ferrets.

While traditional vaccines work by exposing the body to a weakened strain of the microorganism responsible for causing the disease, these new Covid vaccines are mRNA vaccines.

mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccines theoretically work by injecting viral mRNA into the body, where it replicates inside your cells and encourages your body to recognise, and make antigens for, the “spike proteins” of the virus. They have been the subject of research since the 1990s, but before 2020 no mRNA vaccine was ever approved for use.

24. Vaccines do not confer immunity or prevent transmission. It is readily admitted that Covid “vaccines” do not confer immunity from infection and do not prevent you from passing the disease onto others. Indeed, an article in the British Medical Journal highlighted that the vaccine studies were not designed to even try and assess if the “vaccines” limited transmission.

The vaccine manufacturers themselves, upon releasing the untested mRNA gene therapies, were quite clear their product’s “efficacy” was based on “reducing the severity of symptoms”.

25. The vaccines were rushed and have unknown longterm effects. Vaccine development is a slow, laborious process. Usually, from development through testing and finally being approved for public use takes many years. The various vaccines for Covid were all developed and approved in less than a year. Obviously there can be no long-term safety data on chemicals which are less than a year old.

Pfizer even admit this is true in the leaked supply contract between the pharmaceutical giant, and the government of Albania:

the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known

Further, none of the vaccines have been subject to proper trials. Many of them skipped early-stage trials entirely, and the late-stage human trials have either not been peer-reviewed, have not released their data, will not finish until 2023 or were abandoned after “severe adverse effects”.

26. Vaccine manufacturers have been granted legal indemnity should they cause harm. The USA’s Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) grants immunity until at least 2024.

The EU’s product licensing law does the same, and there are reports of confidential liability clauses in the contracts the EU signed with vaccine manufacturers.

The UK went even further, granting permanent legal indemnity to the government, and any employees thereof, for any harm done when a patient is being treated for Covid19 or “suspected Covid19”.

Again, the leaked Albanian contract suggests that Pfizer, at least, made this indemnity a standard demand of supplying Covid vaccines:

Purchaser hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Pfizer […] from and against any and all suits, claims, actions, demands, losses, damages, liabilities, settlements, penalties, fines, costs and expenses

PART VIII: DECEPTION & FOREKNOWLEDGE

27. The EU was preparing “vaccine passports” at least a YEAR before the pandemic began. Proposed COVID countermeasures, presented to the public as improvised emergency measures, have existed since before the emergence of the disease.

Two EU documents published in 2018, the “2018 State of Vaccine Confidence” and a technical report titled “Designing and implementing an immunisation information system” discussed the plausibility of an EU-wide vaccination monitoring system.

These documents were combined into the 2019 “Vaccination Roadmap”, which (among other things) established a “feasibility study” on vaccine passports to begin in 2019 and finish in 2021:

This report’s final conclusions were released to the public in September 2019, just a month before Event 201 (below).

28. A “training exercise” predicted the pandemic just weeks before it started. In October 2019 the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins University held Event 201. This was a training exercise based on a zoonotic coronavirus starting a worldwide pandemic. The exercise was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI the vaccine alliance.

The exercise published its findings and recommendations in November 2019 as a “call to action”. One month later, China recorded their first case of “Covid”.

29. Since the beginning of 2020, the Flu has “disappeared”. In the United States, since February 2020, influenza cases have allegedly dropped by over 98%.

It’s not just the US either, globally flu has apparently almost completely disappeared.

Meanwhile, a new disease called “Covid”, which has identical symptoms and a similar mortality rate to influenza, is supposedly sweeping the globe.

30. The elite have made fortunes during the pandemic. Since the beginning of lockdown the wealthiest people have become significantly wealthier. Forbes reported that 40 new billionaires have been created “fighting the coronavirus”, with 9 of them being vaccine manufacturers.

Business Insider reported that “billionaires saw their net worth increase by half a trillion dollars” by October 2020.

Clearly that number will be even bigger by now

These are the vital facts of the pandemic, presented here as a resource to help formulate and support your arguments with friends or strangers. Thanks to all the researchers who have collated and collected this information over the last twenty months, especially Swiss Policy Research.

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Posted on January 17, 2022 by mekorganic

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[MEK Note: Depending on whether there are reliable original sources, I may or may not agree with everything in these articles on Covid from Eindtijdnieuws. Each reader must decide what the truth might be. Because of massive censorship by government and corporate media I have had to concentrate on alternative information.]

Children born during COVID-19 pandemic have significantly lower IQs Study reveals: Babies born during the Coronavirus pandemic have dramatically lower IQs. When we see a 20% reduction, it’s a wakeup call.

Insights on COVID-19 data and especially how we can stay healthy Truths about the Corona measures, and suppressed information about how to stay healthy in this time of COVID-19. Data reveals the truth about the Corona measures.

AstraZeneca Bluetooth side effect | COVID-19 injection allows Bluetooth connection signaling After this guy gets the AstraZeneca injection, his body tries to connect to Bluetooth everywhere, and it wasn’t his phone. The AstraZeneca team.

Bombshell found on Australian Government website: Authorization to administer a Poison [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE Leaked: Australian Government admits that COVID-19 killer shots are indeed poisons. The COVID vaccine is a poison, and they know it! Furthermore an advice to

dr. Ryan Cole blows away the whole COVID-19 propaganda dr. Cole has conducted more than 100,000 Covid-19 laboratory tests and treated more than 350,000 patients during his medical career. He’s here to talk about data

Massive anti-lockdown protests are raging worldwide | COVID-19 is not a killer virus Thousands, and possibly tens of thousands of protesters across Europe marched Saturday against the ongoing lockdowns, which governments are illegally imposing, and other pandemic restrictions based on

Hefty fines: Indonesia is the first to require COVID-19 vaccines Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, is threatening residents with fines of up to 5 million rupiah (about 300 euros) for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, an unusual

BANNED VIDEO: COVID-19 vaccine could lead to massive death rate of 80% 2020 – The Highwire host Del BigTree meets with Valuetainment to discuss the numerous COVID-19 vaccines currently in production, and the fallout from all these

Bill Gates plots global genocide and Mark of the Beast implants long before COVID-19 Although billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates tries to deny it, he admitted during a virtual TED Talk this summer that it was his plan.

CDC report: 3,150 people paralyzed after COVID-19 vaccine Details were released in a CDC report on December 19, 2020. More than 3,000 people, after administration of the COVID-19 vaccine, can maintain their normal daily

COVID-19 autopsies show blood clots: a ‘bacterial, not viral disease’ Is COVID not a virus, but a bacteria? Doctors in Italy, Germany and India, who have performed autopsies on numerous patients who have died of COVID-19,

New Software Program ‘Tiberius’ | Nasal spray variant COVID-19 vaccine How a COVID-19 vaccine can actually help spread the virus. It may be possible to infect others even after you have already

Proven effective drugs against COVID-19 Cures for COVID-19 are available to everyone! This is a fact and has been proven by thousands of doctors worldwide. Thanks to all the doctors, that action

Warning COVID-19 vaccine: immediate danger to your life In very clear language, Dr. Carrie Madej explains in this revealing video, how the Corona vaccine, with which they want to go every human being on this globe

Implantable 5G nanotech biosensor in COVID-19 vaccines as early as 2021 In September of this year, the Pentagon’s technological development arm, DARPA, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they were working with the

Australian health minister accidentally tells the truth about COVID-19 The Health Minister of the Australian state of New South Wales, Brad Hazzard, slipped during a press conference about the Corona crisis. He said people

Italian physician, Dr. Roberto Petrella, warns citizens about the COVID-19 depopulation vaccine YouTube Censored Italian Doctor Warns the World! A video of Dr. Roberto Petrella, retired Italian gynecologist and an outspokenly critical doctor, who believes nothing of the

COVID-19 vaccine, transhumanism and Human 2.0: a wake-up call for the world dr. Carrie Madej, an internal medicine specialist, claims the COVID-19 vaccine will alter your DNA. She has more than 20 years of experience on

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