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Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2024-08-15): Sweden said Thursday that it had confirmed a case of the more contagious version of mpox circulating in central and eastern Africa. [...] "We have now also during the afternoon had confirmation that we have one case in Sweden of the more grave type of mpox, the one called clade I," Health and Social Affairs Minister Jakob Forssmed said at a news conference. [...] The strain that spread widely in 2022 and prompted the WHO's first public health emergency declaration was a version of clade II. The current outbreak, however, is a version of clade I, which is "likely to be associated with a higher risk of a more severe course of disease and higher mortality," according to the Public Health Agency of Sweden.
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2022-05-30): The WHO European Region remains at the epicentre of the largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported outside of endemic areas in western and central Africa. The learning curve has been steep over the past 2 weeks. We now have a critical opportunity to act quickly, together, to rapidly investigate and control this fast-evolving situation. [...] We must remember, however, as we have seen from previous outbreaks, that monkeypox is caused by a virus that can infect anyone and is not intrinsically associated with any specific group of people. The gay and bisexual communities have high awareness and rapid health-seeking behaviour when it comes to their and their communities’ sexual health. Indeed, we should applaud them for their early presentation to health-care services. [...] As of now, an effective response to monkeypox will not require the same extensive population measures as we needed for COVID-19 because the virus does not spread in the same way. But – and this is important – we do not yet know if we will be able to contain its spread completely. For that, we need a significant and urgent reduction in exposures through clear communication, community-led action, case isolation during the infectious period, and effective contact tracing and monitoring.
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2024-08-15): Swedish officials said Thursday they have detected a version of mpox that only a day earlier prompted global health authorities to declare a health emergency, marking the first time that variant has been discovered outside of Africa. [...] Swedish officials said the risk to the public is considered low, in line with an assessment from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. But they said a new assessment is expected soon, with occasional cases related to travel anticipated. [...] During the earlier global outbreak, Sweden identified about 300 clade 2 cases.
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2022-07-08): ECDC releases first update to its Rapid Risk Assessment on the monkeypox outbreak [...] The updated rapid risk assessment includes new information on the different clinical picture of monkeypox cases in the ongoing outbreak, and insights from modelling work developed collaboratively between ECDC and the European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA). This modelling work assesses vaccination strategies as outbreak response measures as a complement to the isolation of cases and effective contact tracing for controlling the outbreak. [...] Monkeypox multi-country outbreak - first update
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2022-05-20): WHO and partners are working to better understand the extent and cause of an outbreak of monkeypox. The virus is endemic in some animal populations in a number of countries, leading to occasional outbreaks among local people and travelers. The recent outbreaks reported across 11 countries so far are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries. [...] Monkeypox spreads differently from COVID-19. WHO encourages people to stay informed from reliable sources, such as national health authorities, on the extent of the outbreak in their community (if any), symptoms and prevention. As monkeypox spreads through close contact, the response should focus on the people affected and their close contacts. People who closely interact with someone who is infectious are at greater risk for infection: this includes health workers, household members and sexual partners.
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2024-08-15): Sweden reports first case of new monkeypox strain outside Africa The World Health Organization on Thursday said a first case of mpox linked to an outbreak in Africa has been identified outside the continent after an infection was confirmed in Sweden. The news comes a day after the WHO declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, a global public health emergency. [...] "A person who sought care" in Stockholm "has been diagnosed with mpox caused by the clade I variant. It is the first case caused by clade I to be diagnosed outside the African continent," the agency said in a statement.
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2024-08-20): The current outbreak stems from the clade I strain of mpox, different from the clade II strain that caused the 2022 global health emergency. [...] "The current upsurge of mpox in parts of Africa, along with the spread of a new sexually transmissible strain of the monkeypox virus, is an emergency, not only for Africa, but for the entire globe," said Dimie Ogoina, MBBS, FWACP, FMCP, FACP, FIDSA, chair of WHO's mpox emergency committee and president of the Nigeria Infectious Diseases Society. "Mpox, originating in Africa, was neglected there, and later caused a global outbreak in 2022. It is time to act decisively to prevent history from repeating itself."
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2024-08-16): EU countries should issue travel advice for areas impacted by mpox, European health authorities said, after the virus outbreak was declared a global emergency. European health authorities warned on Friday that it is "highly likely" Europe will see more imported cases of mpox due to the virus’ spread in multiple African countries. [...] The change to Europe's risk assessment also came a day after Sweden detected the first case of a new variant, that is likely more transmissible, outside Africa.
Claim: “Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.” (Facebook post, 2022-05-22)
Evidence (2022-06-01): Monkeypox, a rare disease, is caused by the simian pox virus, which is structurally related to smallpox and causes a similar disease, but less severe. It is part of the group of orthopoxviruses_. [...] Monkeypox, a rare zoonosis that occurs sporadically in forested areas of Central and West Africa, is an orthopoxvirus that can cause fatal illness. [...] Monkeypox is a rare disease that occurs throughout remote parts of Central and West Africa, often near tropical rain forests. People at risk for monkeypox are those who get bitten by an infected animal or have contact with the animal's rash, blood, or body fluids. It can also be transmitted person to person through respiratory or direct contact and contact with contaminated bedding or clothing.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2021-03-29): Davis, the incumbent, represented a Florida man convicted in the murder of a corrections officer for 21 years before the man was executed in 2013. The ad exaggerates the nature of the case and Davis’s goal, however. He was seeking to get the death penalty reduced to life in prison. And the ominous narration in the ad implies there is something nefarious in the act of representing a client, a standard part of the American judicial system.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2024-01-31): "DJ Vlad" Lyubovny is among those skeptical of the timing of Davis’ indictment after he spent so many years hiding in plain sight. "The information has been out there," Lyubovny says. "It’s not like they have to have [a lot] to corroborate what Keffe D is saying. I mean, Keffe could always say, ‘Hey, I made all this up because I was facing a life sentence, and then I made up more of it because I was being paid to do the interviews. I saw it as a stream of income.’" [...] Special public defenders Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo, who represent Davis, declined to comment for this article, but wrote in a bail motion that the case was based on an "astounding amount of hearsay and speculative testimony" presented to the grand jury: "It cannot be said that the proof is evident and the presumption great that Duane is guilty of first-degree murder for the death of Shakur," they wrote. In a theme sure to be repeated throughout the trial, Cano and Arroyo argued, "The truthfulness of the content of the interviews was never verified. The book and interviews were done for entertainment purposes and to make money from a situation that Kading and others had already profited." In January, District Judge Carli Kierny set bail at $750,000 and ordered home confinement for Davis pending trial.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2024-07-30): Further reading [edit]- The Thinnest Blue Line - Fear of retaliation - Len Davis Trial: 1996 | Encyclopedia.com - James Gill: Spinning their wheels on death row - Federal judge recuses herself from ex-cop Len Davis’ case - New Orleans Breaking News, Today's News | WWL Radio - 24 Years After New Orleans Officer Had Her Killed, Kim Groves' Children to Receive $1.5M Settlement - 1964 births - 1994 murders in the United States - 20th-century American criminals - American male criminals - American police officers convicted of depriving others of their civil rights - American police officers convicted of murder - American prisoners sentenced to death - Living people - New Orleans Police Department officers - People convicted of murder by the United States federal government - People convicted of soliciting murder - Police misconduct in the United States - Prisoners sentenced to death by the United States federal government
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2023-09-30): Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating Shakur's murder, told the Associated Press he is not surprised by Mr Davis' arrest."All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead," Mr Kading said, calling Mr Davis "the last man standing" in the case.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2023-11-28): For more than 40 years, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office were committed to successfully defending Gonzales’ conviction and sentence as legally valid. Both were affirmed by higher courts multiple times. Gonzales continues to challenge his conviction. This time through a Habeas Corpus petition. Penal Code 1473.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2021-04-04): "Jeff Davis just can’t be trusted to keep our communities safe. In fact, Jeff Davis spent years defending a convicted cop killer, who murdered a correctional officer in cold blood. The killer was sentenced to death row, and Jeff Davis tried to get him off the hook." [...] When Davis was a private lawyer, he worked for a large law firm and, starting in 1992 and going on for years thereafter, Davis represented a man named William Van Poyck in a post-conviction (appeal) in a murder case. Van Poyck had been convicted for a 1987 incident where Van Poyck and a man named Frank Valdes reportedly attacked a prison guard named Fred Griffis during a prisoner transport. Griffis was shot and killed. Van Poyck and Valdes each accused the other of being the person who killed Griffis. However, Van Poyck and Valdes were both convicted and sentenced to death. [...] It is important to have good lawyers, such as Davis, represent people in criminal cases – even persons accused or convicted of the most serious crimes. Our Constitutional system would be broken without having lawyers willing to take on that extraordinarily important role. While Davis’ attempt at clemency was ultimately unsuccessful in the case, our system depends on the willingness of good lawyers to provide zealous representation to everyone accused of a crime, even if the person is ultimately found guilty. Moreover, we demand that same kind of zeal on appeal because it is indisputable that there have been many people in the United States who have been exonerated after being sentenced to die.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2023-12-11): Jefferson Davis, the half-blind ex-President of the Confederate States of America, leaned on a cane as he hobbled into a federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia. Only days before, a Chicago Tribune reporter, who’d met Davis on the boat ride to Richmond, had written that "his step is light and elastic." But in court, facing trial for treason, Davis, fifty-eight, gave every appearance of being bent and broken. A reporter from Kentucky described him as "a gaunt and feeble-looking man," wearing a soft black hat and a sober black suit, as if he were a corpse. He’d spent two years in a military prison. He wanted to be released. A good many Americans wanted him dead. "We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a sour-apple tree," they sang to the tune of "John Brown’s Body."
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2024-10-04): - ^ "CONVICTED KILLER, EX-POLICEMAN, TURNS HIMSELF IN". The New York Times. 1981-03-24. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2021-03-29): "Jeff Davis just can’t be trusted to keep our communities safe. In fact, Jeff Davis spent years defending a convicted cop killer, who murdered a correctional officer in cold blood. The killer was sentenced to death row, and Jeff Davis tried to get him off the hook." [...] Grogan says Davis "spent years defending a cop killer." The ad goes on to reference the death of a correctional officer, but it exaggerates a bit on the "cop killer" line. That’s a term traditionally applied only to police officers. [...] In an attack ad, Grogan said Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook."
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2009-04-29): When it's revealed what his money was spent for, Davis hides no more. She's honest...she's exposed...she's naked. It's her one honest moment in the film. Steiner's music is a low bass somber drum beat. 'I was in love with Jeff Hammond. Been in love for years. We use to meet each other constantly once or twice a week. Not a soul had the smallest suspicion. Everytime I met him I hated myself and yet I lived for the moment when I'd see him again. It was horrible. Never an hour when I as at peace, when I wasn't reproa-ching myself. I was like a person who was sick with some loath-some disease and doesn't want to get well. Even my agony ws a kind of joy...Then I heard about that, that native woman. I couldn't believe it, I wouldn't belive it. At last I saw her. Saw her walking in the village with those hideous spangles, that chalky painted face, those eyes like a cobra's eyes. But I couldn't give him up...At last he turned on me. He told me he was sick and tired of me. That it was true about that other woman.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2015-07-26): This declaration is made all the more absurd by the fact that there wasn’t a war going on while Davis held the office and was being all fabulous. This is kind of like saying Jefferson Davis was the best fireman the country ever had, although he never went to a fire. [...] I completely agree here with the author on the Jefferson Davis writings…. both at the beginning and the end of the works Foote tried to set Davis up as a figure from a Shakespearean tragedy. Nonsense!
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2021-03-29): Latest Fact-checks on Shelley Grogan Shelley Grogan stated on March 29, 2021 in a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." Shelley Grogan stated on March 29, 2021 in a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook."
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2021-03-21): Mark Born stated on March 21, 2021 in a TV appearance: "Private insurance gives … better coverage" than people would get under a Medicaid expansion. Janet Bewley stated on March 28, 2021 in TV interview: Says Republican lawmakers delayed COVID-19 testing Tony Evers stated on March 30, 2021 in Twitter: "It took the Legislature nearly 300 days to act on a (COVID-19) bill during this pandemic." Shelley Grogan stated on March 29, 2021 in a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." James Edming stated on March 23, 2021 in a speech: "You can’t tell me they can (develop a safe vaccine) in eight to 10 months. Or a year. It takes more time than that." Ron Johnson stated on March 20, 2021 in a speech: "There was no violence on the Senate side, in terms of the chamber." Duey Stroebel stated on March 7, 2021 in a TV interview: "We’ve had more voter turnout since voter ID was passed than ever before." [...] Shelley Grogan stated on March 29, 2021 in a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook."
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2022-06-13): Rusty Shackelford* July 5, 2016 at 12:01 pm Okay, let’s say she was a real harpy, and her coworkers had good reason not to like her. That still doesn’t get the LW off the hook. Good managers don’t make their employees responsible for finding their own coverage, and good managers don’t give their best employee the "work this extra shift or get fired" ultimatum in these circumstances.
Claim: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." (Shelley Grogan, 2021-03-29)
Evidence (2015-06-24): It wasn’t the uneducated, white guy out in the field that was responsible for resistance to civil rights, it was the elected leadership of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, it was the governors and the lieutenant governors and the county probation officers that were the architects of all of that injury. The Klan didn’t come up with mass incarceration and police violence. People who were acculturated into seeing black and brown people differently are the people who created that problem. And so I think we kind of let too many people off the hook by demonizing the minority who most unashamedly expressed these thoughts. While they are absolutely a particular threat, the bigger challenge is getting the rest of us to own up to this. And yes, I do think that we have tried to avoid accountability — not because we're incapable of it — but just because we’ve never had to. Everybody has learned to mimic the behaviors of people who are not racially discriminatory.
Claim: Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “says that all young people want to be socialists.” (Tim Baxter, 2022-01-04)
Evidence (2022-01-04): There’s no evidence she said that.
Claim: Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “says that all young people want to be socialists.” (Tim Baxter, 2022-01-04)
Evidence (2022-02-14): Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat representing parts of Queens and the Bronx (including Rikers Island), quickly became the most prominent progressive voice in the House of Representatives after she defeated a twenty-year incumbent, Joe Crowley, and went to Capitol Hill in January, 2019. In Congress, she is hardly alone in her advocacy for issues ranging from Medicare for All to the Green New Deal; she belongs to the Bernie Sanders wing of the Party. But few in the history of the institution have so quickly become a focus of attention, admiration, and derision.
Claim: Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “says that all young people want to be socialists.” (Tim Baxter, 2022-01-04)
Evidence (2018-06-27): Many Tuesday night were asking, "who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" after her stunning primary victory over the No. 4 House Democrat Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th District. The New York Times called her a "Democratic dragon slayer." MSNBC’s Joy Reid admitted on Twitter to "doing an Ocasio-Cortez crash course." She didn’t have a Wikipedia page until last night. A year ago, she was working as a bartender in Manhattan. She is young. She’s working class. She’s a New Yorker who has been immersed in community-based leadership, organizing, and service work. Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most progressive, uncompromising candidates to make it to the general election as a Democrat and the fact that she beat an entrenched machine politician has propelled her to instant national recognition. She’s also spoken out on Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, labeling a recent massacre for what it was, putting her at direct odds with much of the institutional Democratic leadership. [...] We spoke with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last month about her campaign’s grassroots start, immigration, the #MeToo movement, and foreign policy on the Intercepted podcast. What follows is the audio of our conversation as aired on Intercepted and the full transcript of the unedited interview.