Baby Dies After Coming Into Contact With Non Vaccinated Person
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CoronaCheck #97
Welcome to the offset edition of CoronaCheck for 2022. As the world enters the tertiary yr of the pandemic, we remain committed to helping our readers split fact from fiction.
This week, nosotros take a wait at some of the most pervasive incorrect claims being spread over the summer — from the imitation death of a child supposedly post-obit a COVID-nineteen vaccination to the connected misrepresentation of coronavirus hospitalisation and death statistics.
Nosotros also draw attention to a phone call to action issued past a worldwide cohort of elevation fact-checking organisations, which before this month published an open letter to YouTube.
No, a child did not die after being vaccinated in NSW
Coinciding with COVID-nineteen vaccines existence fabricated available to children anile v to 11 before this calendar month was a rumour nearly the apparent vaccine-related death of a 7-year-old boy in NSW which spread rapidly online after a Facebook comment was left by a human purporting to be the kid's father.
The man, "Steve Leary", detailed how his recently vaccinated son Lachlan had supposedly died of a heart attack in an ambulance hours later being sent home past Westmead Hospital in Sydney.
Only according to officials and fact checkers, the story doesn't stack up.
Westmead Hospital officials, for case, wrote in a Facebook comment of their ain that there was "no tape of any child having passed away following vaccination at [the] hospital". In a argument issued to fact checkers at Snopes, the hospital added that information technology "did non treat whatever children with those symptoms in the time menstruation indicated" by the Facebook post.
Meanwhile, NSW Wellness told Snopes that it had "not been able to locate any record of whatsoever such incident".
According to an article in the Daily Telegraph, Ambulance NSW likewise had no record of a seven-year-old dying of a centre assault in the back of an ambulance.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration, according to the Daily Mail, confirmed that information technology had non received whatever reports of vaccine adverse events involving the death of a child anile five to 11 years.
And while the contour photo belonging to the Facebook account that posted the story (which has since been deactivated or deleted) did indeed appear to prove a man named Steve Leary, he actually lives in the US, as Fact checkers from UK-based outlet Full Fact discovered.
"Co-ordinate to his ain website, [the] Mr Leary pictured has triplets, which does not friction match the family described in the Facebook comment.".
Full Fact concluded: "The fact that there is no mention of his story across trusted news sources, clear rebuttals of the claims from official medical and local government sources and evidence his movie has been taken from an apparently unrelated human'due south page indicate that this story is faux."
Higher numbers of deaths, hospitalisations among vaccinated people does not mean COVID-19 jabs don't work
It'southward a point that has been reiterated in this newsletter on numerous occasions, but with surging hospitalisations and dozens of daily COVID-nineteen deaths, information technology bears repeating: the relative adventure of a vaccinated person dying with COVID-nineteen is far lower than that of an unvaccinated person, even when vaccinated people are succumbing in higher numbers.
While some anti-vax social media users are quick to indicate to the fact that the majority of Australians dying or in intensive intendance units with COVID-19 have been vaccinated, sharing such statistics without context can paint a misleading pic of vaccine efficacy.
In NSW, for example, the most recent COVID-19 weekly surveillance written report shows that 267,381 double-dosed people were reported to have contracted COVID-19 in NSW between November 26 and January 8.
Of those cases, 1 per cent required hospitalisation, 0.one per cent required intensive care and 0.03 per cent of people died (that is, one person in nearly 4,000 cases of the virus).
Of the 3,552 unvaccinated people who contracted COVID-19 over the same menses, eight.9 per cent were hospitalised, ane.v per cent landed in ICUs and 0.half dozen per cent died (or one person for every 169 cases).
Equally the report notes: "Amongst cases since 26 Nov 2021, although the number of hospitalisations, admissions to ICU and deaths is greater amongst those who had received two constructive doses than those with no effective dose, the proportion of cases with these outcomes is nonetheless much college amid those with no effective dose."
Neil Young takes Spotify to task over vaccine misinformation
Music streaming service Spotify this week removed music by Neil Immature from its platform after the veteran rocker used an open letter to phone call out the company for its lack of action on misinformation.
In the letter of the alphabet, which was addressed to Immature'due south managing director and record label and has since been taken offline, the musician asked for his music to be taken off Spotify, which he said had "get the home of life-threatening COVID misinformation".
"I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation beingness spread by them," Young wrote, according to Rolling Rock.
Young pointed to Spotify's back up for Joe Rogan, whose podcast, which Spotify acquired for $100 1000000 in 2020 is the most popular on the platform, regularly plays host to conversations in which both Rogan and his guests spread misinformation well-nigh the pandemic.
"I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform," Young said. "They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both."
Young's letter of the alphabet came weeks later on a grouping of 270 scientists and medical professionals signed their own alphabetic character seeking activeness from Spotify against Rogan.
In an update on Midweek, Young thanked his record label for its support and urged fellow musicians to follow his pb in leaving Spotify.
"I sincerely promise that other artists and tape companies will move off the Spotify platform and terminate supporting Spotify's deadly misinformation about COVID."
Fact checkers phone call out YouTube for failing to stem 'destructive disinformation and misinformation'
RMIT ABC Fact Check, along with more than than 80 fact-checking organisations from beyond 60 countries, has chosen on the video-sharing and social media platform YouTube to intensify its efforts to forbid the spread of destructive disinformation and misinformation.
In an open letter of the alphabet addressed to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, verified signatories of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) noted that despite the platform being "one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide", YouTube was doing little to address the problem.
"On the contrary, YouTube is assuasive its platform to be weaponised by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit others, and to organise and fundraise themselves," the letter read. "Current measures are proving insufficient."
Among the examples of harmful and dangerous misinformation put forward by fact checkers was a global campaign, originating in Frg, in which so-chosen "doctors for the truth" promoted faux COVID-nineteen cures, rejected the use of face masks and suggested the pandemic was a "program of global domination".
Co-ordinate to the open letter, "millions" of other YouTube users were "watching videos in Greek and Arabic that encouraged them to boycott vaccinations or care for their COVID-xix infections with bogus cures".
Away from the pandemic, the fact checkers drew attention to the platform's part in amplifying hate speech and ballot disinformation.
Measures proposed by the fact-checking organisations as a means of stemming the tide of misinformation included a commitment from YouTube to "meaningful transparency", the provision of context and debunking of misinformation in collaboration with fact checkers, and firmer activeness against repeat offenders, with all steps to exist taken in a multitude of languages.
In a statement to the United states-based Poynter Institute, which oversees the IFCN, YouTube spokeswoman Elena Hernandez said the visitor had "invested heavily" in policies to combat misinformation, including $1 1000000 invested in the IFCN via the Google News Initiative.
"Fact checking is a crucial tool to help viewers brand their own informed decisions, but it'southward one piece of a much larger puzzle to accost the spread of misinformation," Ms Hernandez argued.
"Over the years, we've invested heavily in policies and products in all countries [in which] we operate to connect people to authoritative content, reduce the spread of borderline misinformation, and remove violative videos."
According to the spokeswoman, YouTube had seen "important progress" and consumption of "recommended deadline misinformation" accounted for "significantly below i per cent" of all views on the platform.
In other news: The curious case of Scott Morrison'due south Chinese social media account
When Prime Minister Scott Morrison's account on the Chinese social media platform WeChat was renamed this week, media outlets and politicians were quick to written report the account had been "hacked" or "hijacked".
Simply according to Get-go Draft, a non-for-profit global organization that researches online misinformation and disinformation, a hacking scenario appeared "unlikely".
While Mr Morrison's account was indeed renamed "Australian-Chinese New Life", the alter came months later the Prime number Minister'south function was reportedly locked out of the account.
Equally First Typhoon discovered this calendar week, posts made to the account earlier Mr Morrison lost access remained "live".
Moreover, the master executive of the business at present controlling the account, Fuzhou 985 Information technology, explained this calendar week that he was unaware of who the account belonged to when he purchased it from a Chinese national named only every bit "Mr Ji" in November.
"I don't even know who [Scott] Morrison is," Huang Aipeng told the ABC. "I saw the account has a lot of followers, then we bought information technology."
As reported by the ABC, western leaders such as Mr Morrison bypassed WeChat regulations blocking foreign nationals from holding accounts by registering through Chinese agencies.
While the details of how Mr Morrison lost access to his account are non clear, WeChat rules also state that the person who initially registers an account should not let others to use the account.
According to AAP, WeChat's parent company, Tencent, refuted claims the account had been hacked, stating that there was no evidence of "third-party intrusion".
"Based on our information, this appears to exist a dispute over business relationship ownership," the visitor said in a argument to AAP.
"The account in question was originally registered by a [People's Republic of China] individual and was after transferred to its current operator, a engineering services company — and it volition be handled in accordance with our platform rules."
Edited past Ellen McCutchan
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Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-28/coronacheck-steve-leary-lachlan-covid-19/100784704
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