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On a recent show on Actualidad, a Miami AM radio station, the host was promoting a false cure for Covid-19: the use of ivermectin, a drug used to deworm animals. The host said on Aug. 23 that he could cite clinical trials from Latin America where doctors are using ivermectin with extraordinary results and people recover in three or four days. He falsely suggested that ivermectin was not being promoted for Covid by government health officials because it costs 20 cents per pill and with three or four, or five pills, youre done. Pharmaceutical companies dont make much money.
Amid a surge in Covid cases across the country,
medical disinformation in Spanish persists on AM radio, social media and closed messaging apps, with people
claiming that masks do not work and the vaccine is dangerous ... Many of the influencers and groups that are spreading such conspiracy theories in Spanish are the same ones that spread disinformation leading up to the 2020 presidential elections.
Now, they have moved to medical disinformation. A common theme in many posts is comparing international government responses to the pandemic to Nazi Germany, with groups claiming lockdowns as well as mask and vaccine mandates are the beginning of global tyranny.
In a popular FaceBook page in Spanish, an influencer calls school board members in Florida who voted to mask school children communist and equated vaccine mandates to tyranny against liberty. In her FaceBook page,
she calls for prayers for the marvelous Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/spanish-language-covid-disinformation-aimed-latinos-delta-surges-rcna1809
dchill
(38,324 posts)Veneno.
Runningdawg
(4,496 posts)So more people are turning to quack cures to protect themselves.