Old Claim On Singapore Finding Thrombosis As Main Cause of COVID Deaths Resurfaces
BOOM had debunked the claim in 2021 and found that Singapore's Health Ministry had dismissed it as fake
Claim
An old viral message claims that Singapore is the first country in the world to conduct an autopsy on a COVID-19 victim. According to the claim, the investigation revealed that COVID-19 is not a virus, but bacteria exposed to radiation, which allegedly causes death by blood clotting or thrombosis.
BOOM had previously debunked this claim in June 2021, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, similar false messages were also circulating, claiming that Italy and Russia had also found a way to cure COVID-19 after conducting similar autopsies.
FactCheck
BOOM found that the viral claim is old and unrelated to the recent rise in JN.1 variant COVID-19 cases in India. When the same claim circulated in 2021, the Singapore Ministry of Health had issued a statement calling it false and clarified that no such autopsy had been conducted.
We had then confirmed with pulmonologists that thrombosis, while observed in certain COVID-19 cases, was not the primary cause of death associated with the virus.
