The other Czech pandemic: Disinformation about anti-COVID vaccination. Romea.cz refutes the most frequent hoaxes and manipulations
30.12.2020 12:18
Vaccination against COVID-19 began on 27 December 2020 in the Czech Republic. The first person to receive the vaccine was Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO). (PHOTO: ČT24)
It is becoming an iron-clad rule of thumb in the Czech Republic that each new piece of information reported these days is accompanied by 10 pieces of disinformation. In the case of the events around the COVID-19 disease, that is doubly true.
Different hoaxes and manipulations used to pop up before, but those authoring them were doing so for their own amusement; today the aftermath of people believing hoaxes is much more dangerous and could even destabilize or hamstring the entire society, above all by being spread through various social media. Every day, the common social media user is flooded with an unbelievable amount of information, and therefore freq
Fact Check: US nurse who fainted after Covid-19 vaccine shot is not dead
A viral message on social media claims that Tiffany Dover, the nurse in Tennessee, United States, who fainted after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, is now dead.
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UPDATED: December 22, 2020 22:43 IST
A viral message on social media claims that Tiffany Dover, the nurse in Tennessee, United States, who fainted after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, is now dead.
This has been claimed by several websites, and many Twitter and Facebook users.
Some suspect a conspiracy behind the Covid-19 vaccine as they believe the nurse died after vaccination. One such Facebook claim says, “The nurse who fainted after the Pf1zer \//\cc1ne died 10 hours later. Did you find this story in mainstream media..anywhere..? Of course we aren’t we being told the vaccines k1ll us.it’s part of the plan?”
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However, Dover said she fainted as the result of the pain from the hypodermic needle shot, not the vaccine itself, and that she has a longstanding medical condition as a result of which she is prone to fainting spells triggered by pain.
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On Dec. 17, 2020, a nurse in Tennessee fainted on live television after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer, an incident that inevitably fueled anti-vaccine fear-mongering.
Although it’s true that Tiffany Dover, a critical care nurse at Catholic Health Initiatives Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, passed out after receiving the Pfizer vaccine on TV, the episode was not the result of the vaccine itself. Dover later explained that she has a medical condition that renders her susceptible to fainting spells when she feels pain.