A post on Facebook states that, in Brazil, a nurse handed over a card certifying Lula da Silva’s vaccination but, at that moment, told the Brazilian president: “But you were not vaccinated.” At stake is an image that was taken from a TV Brasil broadcast, where the professional appears addressing Lula with the certificate in hand.

The post also suggests that the Brazilian head of state took a dose of placebo (a harmless substance that has no effect on the body). The controversy quickly spread to other social networks such as Tik Tok or even Telegram, which show excerpts from that television broadcast with false subtitles accompanying the moment in which Lula and the nurse talk.

The electoral promise to Bolsonaro that Lula fulfilled and the vaccine taken live

The fight against Covid-19 and the supposed inefficiency of Jair Bolsonaro to face the pandemic became an “Ace of Diamonds” for Lula da Silva in the campaign for the presidential elections in Brazil in 2022, a government that claims to have disseminated fake news and being “highly incompetent” in managing the pandemic period. Calling for vaccination and guaranteeing that medicines help the country break the wave of deaths from Covid-19 became one of the main keys that reopened the door of the presidential office for Lula da Silva.

Once the elections were won, the official did not take two months to take the first step towards what he had said: promoting vaccination. On February 27 of this year, Lula decided to take the fifth dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, while participating in the event as part of the national vaccination campaign, in the city of Guará, São Paulo. “For God’s sake, don’t be irresponsible!” the Brazilian president says to the cameras.

In the video, Lula da Silva can be seen accompanied by his wife, as he takes off his coat and rolls up his gray T-shirt to take the vaccine booster, in front of dozens of people, including the Brazilian Minister of Health. , Nísia Trindade, and Vice President Geraldo Alkmin who, as a doctor, administered the dose to Lula in a symbolic gesture.

Check it out in the following video, at minute 11’54the statement of the nurse Fátima Rôla: “Get your vaccination card, otherwise you haven’t been vaccinated, no”since, in Brazil, it is the small card received at the time of vaccination that serves as proof of the doses taken against Covid-19:

The complaint on social networks, which managed to obtain at least 300,000 views on TikTok and almost 2,000 likes on Instagram, earned the public denial of the Brazilian presidency, which was forced to guarantee that the claims are false. Also according to the Brazilian press, the Federal District Health Secretariat also sent a note to the newsrooms stressing that not only Lula da Silva received the vaccine, but also that the nurse denies having made any such statement.

Conclusion

It is false that the nurse Fátima Rôla, who gave Lula da Silva the title of the vaccination card, said: “Take the card, but you have not been vaccinated.” The subtitles applied to the publications, in social networks, do not correspond to reality. The video of the television broadcast proves that the technician did say: “Get the vaccination card, otherwise you have not been vaccinated”, so that the Brazilian president would not forget to accompany him with the document proving the vaccination.

Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:

MISTAKEN

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