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News Assembly, Social Media User

“On Sunday 05 September 2021, be ready… receiving news saying Hun Sen is in critical and ready for emergency surgery at Calmette Hospital as medical experts in Singapore stopped providing medical treatment for him.”

Fact Crescendo Cambodia rated this: False

Fact Crescendo Cambodia says: Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen was not hospitalized for any surgery in early September. The Cambodia’s premier showed up in a virtual summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion hosted on September 9. The image used along…

Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier

“Doherty Institute modelling predicts that even with 70 per cent of the population vaccinated, 80 people will die each day from COVID once the outbreak reaches six months after it started. That is 2,240 who will die each month.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Misleading

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Palaszczuk's claim is misleading. The outcome the Premier selected refers to a graph in the modelling report, which contains the results of just one of the scenarios modelled by the Doherty Institute. The graph conta…

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Tucker Carlson, Fox News host

“If the [COVID-19] vaccine works — and they assure us adamantly that it does work and they punish us if we question how well it works — then how can the unvaccinated possibly pose a threat to the vaccinated?”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain How

FactCheck.org says: Vaccines are not 100% effective, so there is a chance that an unvaccinated person could infect a vaccinated person -- particularly the vulnerable, such as elderly and immunocompromised individuals.