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Wearing face masks does not cause hypercapnia or affect the immune system
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Wearing face masks can cause carbon dioxide toxicity; can weaken immune system
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Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-04-28 -
ImpreciseCurrent evidence suggests that COVID-19 may have a higher fatality rate than the flu, but a definitive conclusion requires more studies
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Antibody tests support what’s been obvious: Covid-19 is much more lethal than the flu
Source: The Washington Post, Joel Achenbach, 2020-04-28 -
“Plandemic” vignette featuring anti-vaccination activist Judy Mikovits contains numerous false and unsupported claims about COVID-19
This video is the first in a series of vignettes preceding a movie titled “Plandemic”. First published on 5 May…
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IncorrectBlog posts inaccurately claim that a 2005 NIH study demonstrated the effectiveness of chloroquine treatment against coronavirus infection such as COVID-19
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the NIH researched chloroquine and concluded that it was effective at stopping the SARS coronavirus in its tracks
Source: OneNewsNow, Bryan Fischer, 2020-04-17 -
InaccurateBakersfield physicians underestimate COVID-19 mortality using flawed statistics; wrongly claim sheltering in place causes weak immune system
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You have a 0.03[%] chance of dying from [COVID-19] in the state of California. [...] it’s similar to the flu.
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Daniel Erickson, Artin Massihi, 2020-04-22 -
MisleadingClaim that hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin improves COVID-19 recovery is unsupported at this stage
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By administering hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin, they were able to observe an improvement in all cases, except in one patient
Source: TechStartups, Anonymous, 2020-04-06 -
UnsupportedLittle to no evidence that smoking protects against COVID-19; may increase risk of complications instead
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smoking may protect against COVID-19
Source: Spiked, Christopher Snowdon, 2020-04-23 -
InaccurateThe number of flu cases and deaths in 2020 is comparable to previous years
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there are ZERO flu deaths and ZERO pneumonia deaths for the first time in history
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-04-12 -
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Volunteer for U.K. COVID-19 vaccine trial Elisa Granato is alive, contrary to claim in viral article
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Elisa Granato, the first volunteer who availed herself in Oxford for a jab in the first Europe human trial of a vaccine to protect against the coronavirus pandemic has died.
Source: News NT, James Alami, 2020-04-25 -
Did the COVID-19 virus originate from a lab or nature? Examining the evidence for different hypotheses of the novel coronavirus’ origins
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019, many hypotheses have been advanced to explain where the novel…
