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  • 2021-05-27 (xsd:date)
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  • This Australian news report about new Covid-19 treatments has been misleadingly edited (en)
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  • Multiple social media posts purport to show a news presenter announcing that an Australian biotech firm has developed a new treatment it hopes will prevent people dying from the Covid-19 vaccine. However, the video has been deceptively edited: the full news report is about a drug to prevent deaths from Covid-19, not from the vaccine. The video was shared in this Facebook post on April 23, 2021. The eight-second clip shows a news presenter. An Australian biotech company has developed a new treatment it hopes will prevent people dying from Covid vaccine, she says. The Facebook post’s caption reads: Good news for everyone who took the vaccine: An Australian biotech company has developed a new treatment that will hopefully prevent people dying from the COVID vaccine. A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post as of May 26, 2021. Other instances of the claim appear in this Facebook post, as well as TikTok here and here , and Twitter here . Coronavirus immunisation efforts have been targeted by a deluge of misinformation, fuelling widespread vaccine hesitancy that has left some countries with no choice but to bin unused doses. Listen to this lovely lady and tell me this is a joke. Please! said one TikTok user who shared the video. Simple - DON'T GET THE JAB! another person wrote on Twitter. However, the video has been misleadingly edited. In the video, the logo for Australian network 7 News is featured, while the weather graphic in the bottom-left shows place names including MID, ARMA, and KALA. These appear to represent locations in Western Australia. A search for 7 News Perth bulletins on YouTube led AFP to this full recording of the bulletin, which was broadcast at 4:00 pm local time (0800 am GMT) on April 16, 2021. The clip in the misleading social media posts appears from the 20:38 timestamp in the YouTube video: In the video, presenter Tina Altieri mistakenly says Covid vaccine, but then corrects herself by stating Covid-19. An Australian biotech company has developed a new treatment it hopes will prevent people dying from Covid vaccine. Covid-19. As Katrina Blowers reports, it's now being trialled in the United States, she says. Australian-US biotech firm Implicit Bioscience announced in April that its drug IC14 would be tested in a Phase 2 clinical trial in Covid-19 patients in a handful of hospitals in the United States. The drug aims to reduce respiratory distress and damage to coronavirus patients’ internal organs, the firm said in a press release on April 16, 2021. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) also issued a press release about the trial on April 13, 2021. CORRECTION: This article was updated on November 3, 2021 to correct the issue date of Implicit Bioscience's press release. (en)
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