Skip to content ![\\"Project](\\" content/uploads/2019/08/comprova-logo.svg\\"/) Collaborative journalism against disinformation About Comprova Arquivos ### Health Investigated by: ![](\\" Gazeta-png.png\\"/) ![](\\" content/uploads/2019/07/WhatsApp-Image-2020-09-10-at-19.47.33.jpeg\\"/) 2020-04-09 # Hospital denies having treated “cousin Antonio Carlos” *False False Hospital Unimed-Rio denies that it treated a patient named Antonio Carlos, aged 67, who was cured of Covid-19 with chloroquine, characteristics described in a tweet that went viral. See more See less Hospital Unimed-Rio denies that a patient with the characteristics described in a tweet that went viral on social media was handled at the institution. THE patient would be a man named Antonio Carlos, 67 years old, cousin of the author of the tweet, and that he would have been cured of covid-19 with the use of the drug chloroquine at the hospital located in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. The author of the post states that he had just left Hospital Unimed da Barra, where the “67-year-old cousin Antonio Carlos”, detected 16 days ago with covid-19, had been cured after treatment with chloroquine. The message went viral and was copied by a series of Twitter profiles and also on Facebook. Many people gathered posts from different social accounts to mock the number of cousins ​​that Antonio Carlos would have. Some profiles asked the author of the original post if he was related with other people who published the same post, saying they were cousins ​​of “Antonio Carlos.” Comprova verified the veracity of the content published on Twitter by the profile @marcelloneves72 on April 7th. The profile had 45 thousand followers in the afternoon on April 9th. This Wednesday, April 8, Marcello stated again, in response to a publication by President Jair Bolsonaro on Twitter regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine, that his cousin had been cured by the medicine. False, for Comprova, is content that is invented or has been edited to change its original and disseminated meaning in a deliberate manner to spread a lie. ### How we check To verify the content of the message, Comprova contacted the Unimed-Rio. By email, the Institution informed that it was unaware of “the aforementioned care for patient Antonio Carlos, 67 years old, diagnosed with Covid-19". Asked whether any patient had been cured or treated with chloroquine in the unit, Unimed-Rio said that it “follows all the guidelines of the Ministry of Health for the treatment of suspected or confirmed cases of illness". Comprova also tried to speak to Marcello Neves to find out about the “cousin Antonio Carlos”. The team sent messages on Twitter, which were not answered. Soon after, Marcello restricted access to his account on the network social. Chloroquine has been the subject of debate in the country for the treatment of Covid-19. THE President Jair Bolsonaro has treated the drug as a possibility of cure of the disease and encouraged its use by doctors to end isolation social. The substance, together with hydroxychloroquine, has been administered in patients infected by the new coronavirus in Brazilian institutions and international studies, but there are still not enough scientific elements that ensure its effectiveness. The Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, has alerted to the side effects of indiscriminate use of the medication, such as cardiac arrhythmia. ### Viral The message published on Twitter had 12.5 thousand likes and 3.7 thousand retweets on Twitter. afternoon of Thursday, April 9th. Verification of this content was also carried out by the Catraca Livre website. 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UnimedRio Hospital cures Covid19 of patient Antônio Carlos 67 with chloroquine