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Flawed reasoningMasks offer only partial protection from the virus that causes COVID-19, but their effectiveness can be enhanced with other measures like physical distancing
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“Either masks work or they don’t”; “I don’t understand the safety concern with voting in person. Your mask works, right?”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-06-30 -
IncorrectA person’s response to vaccination is not associated with birthmarks or the presence of mutations in a gene involved with vitamin B9 production
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Birthmarks are indicators of the MTHFR gene; “When people have MTHFR their chances of vaccine reactions increase because they cannot detox the toxins from the vaccines”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2018-11-03 -
Flawed reasoningFalse claim shared by President Trump that only 6% of CDC-reported deaths are from COVID-19 is based on flawed reasoning
Claim:
only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid, the rest had other serious illnesses
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-08-29 -
InaccurateHuman DNA does not produce a positive result on the RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2
Claim:
“WHO coronavirus PCR test primer sequence is found in all human DNA”; “this means that the WHO test kits should find a positive result in all humans”
Source: Piece of Mindful, Anonymous, 2020-04-06 -
Lacks contextA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 would be useful even if the survival rate from COVID-19 is high
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With the survival rate of COVID-19 close to 100% without a vaccine, what exactly will the purpose of the new vaccine be?
Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2020-08-21 -
InaccuratePeople infected with SARS-CoV-2 can transmit the virus to others, even if they do not show symptoms of the disease and are not considered sick
Claim:
“The greatest trick the CDC ever pulled was convincing the world you can be sick without having symptoms”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-08-23 -
InaccurateAltered image falsely suggests that restaurant staff in Maine are required to wear dog cone-style face visors to protect against COVID-19
Claim:
“Governor of Maine orders restaurant staff to wear COVID visors like dog cones”
Source: Summit.news, Twitter/X, Paul Joseph Watson, Sherri Tenpenny, 2020-08-18 -
InaccurateListicle of “facts” about COVID-19 contains numerous inaccurate and misleading claims
Claim:
“The overall lethality of [COVID-19] (IFR) is about 0.1% to 0.3% and thus in the range of a severe influenza”
Source: Swiss Policy Research, Anonymous, 2020-03-14 -
MisleadingCurrent COVID-19 mortality rate does not predict the future probability of dying from the disease
Claim:
“Chance of NOT dying from Covid-19: 99.96%”
Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2020-08-16
