# Source note — Australian biotech / COVID treatment edited-clip claim

Prepared: 2026-07-27

## Social lead
- TikTok shortlink: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS4JqUGk3/
- Resolved URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@legitimacy101/video/7666850047597841672
- Creator: @legitimacy101 / Phantasm
- TikTok caption: “#onthisday on this day lmao....can't make this stuff up. #pie #in #the #face”
- Captured transcript begins: “An Australian biotech company has developed a new treatment it hopes will prevent people dying from COVID vaccine.”

## Finding
The clip is a recycled/meme version of an already fact-checked misleading edit. AFP reported that the presenter misspoke “Covid vaccine” but immediately corrected herself to “Covid-19” in the original segment. The story was about a COVID-19 treatment for severely ill patients, not a treatment for people dying from vaccines.

## Anchor sources captured
- AFP Fact Check: “This Australian news report about new Covid-19 treatments has been misleadingly edited.”
- ABC News Australia, April 16, 2021: Brisbane biotech company trials drug on US COVID-19 patients in bid to prevent deaths from the virus.
- Business News Australia, April 16, 2021: Implicit Bioscience to trial COVID-19 immunotherapy treatment.
- Implicit Bioscience media release: IC14 Phase 2 trial in hospitalized COVID-19 patients; NIAID-sponsored CaTT trial.

## Evidence label
Verified misleading edit / social clip lacks corrective context.

## Public wording guardrail
Do not imply ABC or the biotech company confirmed “vaccine-death treatment.” The reliable record says IC14 was an investigational anti-CD14 monoclonal antibody trial for hospitalized COVID-19 respiratory disease.