A video through a post is being widely shared on social media in the context of the present COVID-19 vaccination across the world. A doctor named Rima Laibow had claimed in the video that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been working on vaccines to create permanent sterility. Let us fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: 2009 video of Dr Rima Laibow confirming that WHO had been working on COVID-19 vaccines to create permanent sterility.
Fact: There is no evidence to show that WHO has been preparing vaccines to create complete sterility. The video is from a show named “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura” where Jesse Ventura, the host talks with people on various conspiracy theories. The video had been created in the context of Swine Flu that was spreading in 2008-09 and has nothing to do with COVID-19. There is no evidence to show that the Swine Flu vaccine had created permanent sterility. In fact, there is no evidence that the present COVID-19 vaccines will cause complete sterility. The COVID-19 vaccines do not contain adjuvants based on squalene, the substance mentioned in the video. Dr Rima Laibow is a conspiracy theorist whose organisation had been selling unlicensed drugs in the US at various times. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When reverse image search is done on the screenshots of the video, a Facebook video was found with similar visuals saying that the video is from a TruTV show named “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura”. The viral video has been taken from Season 1, Episode 5 of the show, “Secret Societies”, where Jesse Ventura, the host talks to the doctor named Rima Laibow who talks about “a pandemic on the horizon that would cause forced vaccinations with the goal of decreasing world’s population”. The video was aired in December 2009.
However, the video had been created in the context of the Swine Flu that was spreading in 2008-09 and has nothing to do with COVID-19. There is no evidence to show that the Swine Flu vaccine had created permanent sterility.
Squalene, a substance mentioned in the video, is naturally found in humans, animals, and plants. Squalene is an essential building block to make certain hormones and other substances in the body, manufactured in the livers, and circulates in the bloodstream with the highest amount found in the skin. Squalene-based adjuvants (to enhance the immunogenicity of antibodies) can be found in Swine Flu vaccines. However, the COVID-19 vaccines reportedly do not contain adjuvants based on squalene.
There is no evidence to show that WHO has been preparing vaccines to create complete sterility. In fact, there is no evidence that the present COVID-19 vaccines will cause complete sterility.
Jesse Ventura is a former governor of Minnesota and an American TV host. In 2009-2012, he hosted a show for TruTV based on various conspiracy theories, named ‘Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura’. Dr. Rima Laibow’s organisation, ‘The Natural Solutions Foundation’ has been selling unlicensed drugs in the United States at various times.
In 2014, Dr. Rima Laibow distributed the drug ‘Nano-Silver’ by a fraudulent scheme, claiming that the drug could cure the Ebola virus. In early 2020, she began selling the ‘medicine’ for coronavirus. On 13 November 2020, at the Food and Drug Administration’s request, the US Department of Justice filed a civil complaint against her and the organisation. Subsequently, in December 2021, a federal court had ordered Dr. Rima Laibow and the organisation to stop distributing unapproved ‘Nano Silver’ products touted as COVID-19 treatment.
To sum it up, a 2009 video from a show based on conspiracy theories is shared to say that the WHO had been working on COVID-19 vaccines to create permanent sterility.
