“COVID-19 infection caused by the Omicron variant is "like having the flu.”
What Vera Files found
Overall, it is not accurate to compare the flu directly to COVID-19 because “[COVID-19] is in a crisis state with many complicating layers to infection and severity,” according to health experts from Meedan, a global technology nonprofit, in an email to VERA Files Fact Check. The Department of Health said: "For now, let's not confuse COVID-19 as only like the flu… People might get complacent when you do that.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. made this claim around 5 July 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 8 July 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has 31 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 20 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/Rjxzk6TAHKw?t=1164
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.
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- THIP Media: False“Covid variant, Omicron, means non-existing”