“Rothschild filed a patent for COVID-19 testing in 2015.”
What FACTLY found
Rothschild filed a series of regular, non-provisional patent applications under the name “System and Method for Using, Processing, and Displaying Biometric Data”, starting from 2015. However, there is no mention of COVID-19 in these initial fillings. The patent for a system analyzing biometric data to ascertain COVID-19 infection was applied for in May 2020
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 8 March 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 12 March 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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