“Image shows a patient experiencing claustrophobia and having a panic attack during a CT scan.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 30 Jan 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The radiographer who shared the image was doing so to explain how hoaxes are created on the internet and said it showed a patient waking up to movement and simply raising his head.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 30 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 January 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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