Australian Media Outlet Discovers Those In Hospital With COVID In News Report Are Crisis Actors

Media Watch, a TV program on ABC Australia uncovered a scandal across several news reports featuring reportedly 'sick' patients with COVID in the hospitals. Turns out, they are all crisis actors!

Paul Barry reported on Ramona, one of 700 COVID patients hospitalised in Australia at the end of last month.

Who, along with two others in Sydney’s Concord Hospital, was keen to warn people of the dangers of COVID by sharing heartbreaking stories about the illness from their hospital beds:

FAWAZ DANDAN: So please get vaccinated. I wish I knew it beforehand.

OSAMA AHMAD: … shortness in breath, something attacking the lungs. It was harsh.

Footage of those patients, identified only by their first names, was recorded by Dr Lucy Morgan and released by New South Wales Health. And it made it onto all the major networks including ABC News, Ten News First and Seven News.

But soon people on social media were wondering if the New South Wales Health video was actually a fake.

And among the skeptics was former One Nation senator Rod Culleton, whose post received thousands of likes, and another former senator, David Leyonhjelm.

And one intrepid TikToker who went digging was able to reveal:

I found all 3 actors. Now how can this be coincidental?

Yes, all three, including Ramona, were supposedly paid crisis actors, who did not have COVID at all.