Fact Checking 68: Is Clinica Alemana recruiting volunteers for a study? Does Airbnb enable leases only for health personnel?

With the rate of coronavirus infections still on the rise, health personnel are among the first most exposed. For this reason, the preventive measures of these people must have been greater and in many cases has led them to make the decision to isolate themselves from their families, and even look for places other than their homes.

A few days ago, various social network users began to ask if it was true that Airbnb, the popular accommodation search application in various parts of the world, had enabled an exclusive system for health personnel that fights the Covid-19, and without considering the commission charged by the application, only considering the charge of the accommodation owner.

Through its website and its mobile version, the company confirms this formula with the following message: “We present the accommodations for Covid-19 emergency personnel. Airbnb hosts are offering places to host medical and emergency personnel so they can be close to their patients and a safe distance from their families. ”

German Clinic reportedly was recruiting volunteers for an alleged study. Along with denying this information, the medical center, in a statement published on its social networks, indicated that this alleged recruitment had been carried out at through an email or a WhatsApp message, in which, according to the clinic, his recipient was told that he had been selected “to participate in a study by the German Clinic.”

But during the course of the day, the publication of the clarification was deleted. When consulting the medical center, they only clarified that it was an internal error, and that in reality, this supposed call to participate in a study through social networks, never existed.

Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) He was a brilliant British theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and scientific popularizer. At an early age he began to suffer from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which left him prostrate in a wheelchair.

Although he was able to develop his scientific career, his illness increasingly complicated it. His last days had to be spent with medical assistance, in addition to connected to mechanical fans.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the scientist’s family donated these kits for use in treating coronavirus patients at Royal Papworth Hospital, located in Cambridge, England.

The family decided to help that particular enclosure, for before Hawking’s death at age 76, he was given “brilliant, dedicated and compassionate medical support.”

“After my father’s death, we returned everything that had been provided to us by the NHS (British National Health Service), but there were more respirators that he bought and that we are now delivering. All in the hope that they will help others in the fight against Covid-19, “said Lucy Hawking, her daughter.