{"id":1251726,"date":"2022-01-28T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1251726"},"modified":"2022-01-28T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:22:47","slug":"fact-check-did-a-french-news-channel-film-mannequins-posing-as-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-a-french-news-channel-film-mannequins-posing-as-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did A French News Channel Film Mannequins Posing As COVID-19 Patients?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-a-french-news-channel-film-mannequins-posing-as-covid-19-patients%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1251726&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYXj691PHXh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Instagram<\/a> purportedly shows a French news network filming a mannequin disguised as a COVID-19 hospital patient.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYXj691PHXh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is a screen grab from a COVID-19 simulation video filmed by a Canadian university. The French news banner has been edited onto the image.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYXj691PHXh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows two nurses standing around a mannequin laying on a hospital bed. The figure can be seen in a large plastic tube with arms missing out of the socket. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/05\/fact-check-video-people-posing-covid-fatalities-husky-music-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show People Posing As COVID-19 Fatalities \u2018For The News\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance: Hospitals are so saturated with the omicron variant that there is not even time to put arms to the mannequins for the media\u2026\u201d text within the image reads, while the caption alleges, \u201cThe new variant will make your arms fall off. Wowwwww \u2026 and there still are many who think the Fake News and your government don\u2019t lie\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search revealed the picture is not from a French news segment. It originated from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUCqHSXKu80&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video<\/a> published by the University Institute of Cardiology and Pulmonology of Quebec (UICPQ) in April 2020. The video has a French title that roughly translates to, \u201cThe Institute in the time of COVID-19: simulation in intensive care.\u201d The video focuses on a hypothetical scenario of a COVID-19 patient being treated in the UICPQ intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>The French news banner included in the post can be seen in a BFM TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/politique\/gouvernement\/jean-castex-a-ete-teste-positif-au-covid-19_VN-202111220513.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news segment<\/a> that aired Nov. 22, 2021. The segment covered the news that France\u2019s prime minister, Jean Castex, had tested positive for COVID-19 at the time. The image featured in the Instagram post does not appear in the clip linked on BFM TV\u2019s website nor in any of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/sante\/covid-19-le-variant-omicron_DN-202112200181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">articles<\/a> regarding COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Instagram purportedly shows a French news network filming a mannequin disguised as a COVID-19 hospital patient. Verdict: False The image is a screen grab from a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}