‘Oku taupotu ‘i lalo ha fakamatala fakaTonga
Tongan anti-vaxxers are still circulating a two-year-old video whose claims have long since been debunked.
The video, featuring Indian-born American entrepreneur Dr Shiva Ayyadurai, claims that Covid-19 can be treated with hydroxychloroquine and vitamins.
Dr Ayyadurai is not a medical doctor and his claims about how Covid-19 can be treated have been shown to be wrong by senior medical specialists and researchers.
Here is what the Harvard Medical School says about vitamins:
āClinical trials have explored the possibility that supplements may be effective. And, unfortunately, most of the evidence is unconvincing.
For example, a few observational studies link lower blood vitamin levels with a higher risk of testing positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, but studies like these cannot prove that vitamin D protects people against infection. A randomised controlled study of people with moderate to severe COVID-19 who received a high dose of vitamin D showed no benefit.
Similarly, a 2021 study of zinc and vitamin C demonstrated no benefit for people with mild COVID-19. In this study, people whose symptoms did not require hospital admission were randomly assigned to receive doses of Vitamin C and/or zinc.
The researchers found that people receiving the supplements, whether individually or combined, had no improvement in symptoms or a faster recovery when compared with otherwise similar patients receiving neither supplement.ā
Here is what Pharmac in New Zealand said about hydroxychloroquine in 2020: Itās great for treating active rheumatoid arthritis, systemic and discoid lupus erythematosus and malaria treatment and suppression. Pharmac cited the World Health Organisation as saying that hydroxychloroquine had not demonstrated an overall benefit in the treatment of COVID-19.
āUsing hydroxychloroquine for prevention had little or no effect on preventing illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19. Taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19 may increase the risk of diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, drowsiness and headache.ā
In other words, Dr Ayyaduraiās claims have long ago been debunked.
However, the video is still being shared by most Tongan anti-Covid 19 and conspiracy theorists. Some of them have tried to oppose Kaniva Newsā articles about Covid disease, Covid vaccine and the disease’s existence.
From the outset of the pandemic, Kaniva has attempted to educate our Tongan anti-Covid and conspiracy theorists about why their fears are groundless. Failure to do some background checks on the evidence and the more irresponsible claims means that they fail to understand that most of the claims made by people like Dr Ayyadurai are widely disputed and unfounded.
The claims about treatment are among the most rational claims made on the video. In the video Dr Ayyadurai claimed there was a giant global conspiracy to make everybody have a chip, destroy the American economy, and make everybody the slave of a network of powerful figures including the Chinese Communist Party, Bill Gates, the Clintons and the United Nations.
Ayyadurai was briefly linked to disgraced American President Donald Trump and tried to have Dr Anthony Fauci, who led the US governmentās fight against Covid-19, fired for advocating social distancing, vaccinations and masking.
None of Dr Ayyaduraiās claims have come true since he made them two years ago, so it is a fair bet that he was wrong about everything else.
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FAKAMATALA FAKATONGA
āOku kei vilohi takai hono āe he kau āenitivesa pe taaufehiāa ki he huhu maluāi Tonga āa e foāi vitiÅ kuo taāu āe ua hono motuāa pea kuo fuoloa fau hano fakahalakai āa e ngaahi faāufaāu taāemoāoni āoku tuku mai aiā.
Ko e vitiÅ ko eni āoku āasi ai āa e tangata āInitia fanauāi āi āAmelika ko Dr Shiva Ayyadurai, mo āene taukave āe lava faitoāoāaki e Koviti19 āa e hydroxychloroquine mo e vaitamini.
āOku āikai ko ha toketÄ metikolo āa Dr Ayyadurai pea ko āene taukaveā kau ki he Koviti 19 kuo āosi fakahalaki ia āe ha kau sipesialisi mo liseesa mÄāolunga.
Ko e lau āeni āa e akoāanga fakafaitoāo āa e Harvard ki he vaitamini:
āKuo āilo āi he ngaahi tulaila fakakilÄ«niki ko e faingamÄlie ke tokoni āa e vaitamini pe saplimeniā ki he āe ala āi ai hano ola. Pea, meāapango, ko e lahi taha āo e ngaahi fakamoāoni āoku āikai mÄlohi feāungaā.
HangÄ ko āeni, ko e ngaahi sitati lahi āoku āilo ai ko e siāi āa e levolo āo e totoā āi he vaitamini, oku ne fakatupu āe ia āa e fakatuāutamaki ke maāu ai kita āe he vailahi āoku ne fakatupu āa e Koviti 19. Naāe āi ai ha sitati pe fakatotolo āo ha kakai ne maāu kinautolu āe he Koviti ka ne āikai fuāu totuāa, pea ne huhu kia kinautolu ha ha faitoāo ne lahiāaupito ai āa e vaitamini D, ka ne āikai hano ola lelei taha.
Meāa tatau pe āi he 2021 ne āi ai ha sitati ne fai ki he zinc mo e vaitamini C fakamoāoniāi ai āa e āikai ha lelei āe maāu āe he kakai ne maāu kinautolu āe he Koviti āi ha tuāunga vaivai pe, pea ne āoange āa e faitoāo vaitamini Cmo e zinc ke faitoāoāaki kinautolu ka ne āikai hano ola.
Ko e lau āeni āa e Pharmac āi Nuāu Sila ki he hydroxychloroquine āi he 2020. āOku sai ia ki hono faitoāo āo e rheumatoid arthritis, systemic mo e discoid lupus erythematosus mo e malÄlia. Pehe āe he Pharmac ne pehÄ āe he World Health Organisation āoku teāeki lava fakapapauāi āoku faitoāo āe he Koviti 19.
āOku siāi pe pe āikai hano ola hano maluāi āe he hydroxychloroquine āa e puke pe tokoto fale mahaki pe mate mei he Koviti 19. Ko hono fakaāaongaāi āo e hydroxychloroquine ke taāofi āa e Koviti 19 āe lava ke ne fakatupu āe ia āa e fakalele, tokotokakoviāia, mamahi e kete ninimo mo e langaāulu.
I hono fakalea āe taha, ko e lau āa Dr Ayyadurai kuo fuoloa hono fakaeāa āene hala mo āene taāemoāoni.
Ka neongo ia, ko e vitiÅ ia ko eni āoku kei vilo holo pe ia āo tui ki ai āa e kakai Tonga āe niāihi āoku nau pipiki ki he takihala āa e toketaaā ni. Kau ai mo e faāahinga nau fakafepakiāi āa e ngaahi ongoongo āa e Kaniva kau ki he mooni āo e Koviti pea mo e lelei āo e faitoāo huhu maluāi, tuāunga pe āi heāenau tui ki he fakamatala hala āa Dr Ayyadurai.
Talu pe mei he kamata āa e panatemiki mo e feinga āa e Kaniva ke akoāi āa e kakai Tonga āenitÄ«kovitiā mo teolikonisipiulasÄ« ke mahino āoku āikai ha āuhinga lelei āenau hohaāaā. Ikai ke nau fekumi ke maāu āa e fakamatala falalaāanga kau ki he Koviti mo e huhu maluāi pea ko e meāa leva āoku hoko ko āenau faāu fakamatala hala hange ko e Dr Ayyadurai.
Ko e ngaahi taukave hala kau ki he faitoāo āoku kau ia āi he ngaahi maāuhala āoku āasi he vitiooā ni. āOku pehe āe Dr Ayyadurai he vitiooā kuo āi ai ha faāufaāu kovi ke maāu āe he taha kotoa ha kiāi chip fakakomipiuta, fakaāauha āa e āekonomika āa āAmelika, pea ke ngÄue pÅpula āa e taha kotoa ki he kakai mÄlohi fau kau ai āa e Paati Kominiusi āa e Puleāanga Siaina, Bill Gates, Clintons mo e Puleāanga Fakatahataha.
Ne lave foki āa Ayyadurai ki he palesiteni kuo tÅ āa āAmelika ko President Donald Trump toe feinga ke tuli āa r Anthony Faucci mei heāene poupouāi āa e tauhi e va mamaāo, huhu maluāi mo e tui āa e masks.
Hala āatÄ ke moāoni ha foāi taukave āa Ayyadurai talu mei he taāu āe ua kuohiliā mahino ai āoku ne hala āi ha toe meāa pe.
āO āo huhu maluāi:
āOku tui āa e Kaniva ko e founga pe ki he malum o hao mei he Koviti-19 ko e Å āo huhu maluāi. Fakapapauāi āoku fakahoko āa ho ngaahi huhu pusitaaā pea m oho famili ke huhu maluāi foki.
Oku āata ke huhu maluāi āa e taha kotoa āi Nuāu Sila āoku taāu nima pe āova ai pea āoku maāu taāetotongi pe āa honau huhu maluāi. āOku tatau ai pe pe ko e ha āa hoāo visa. āOku teāeki āatÄ ke huhu maluāi āa kinautolu āi lalo he taāu nimaā.
