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Dozens of clinical trials ongoing to investigate whether vitamin D prevents COVID-19; no firm evidence yet
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“Vitamin D insufficiency [...] may account for the majority of COVID-19 deaths”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Facebook users, 2020-11-30 -
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Face masks, handwashing, and vaccination do not weaken the immune system, and are effective measures to reduce the spread of infectious diseases
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Public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 including face masks, vaccines, and frequent handwashing “suppress our immune systems”
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2020-11-23 -
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Danish face mask study did not show that masks were ineffective at reducing spread of COVID-19; study was underpowered and results were inconclusive
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“Masks make no significant difference”; “Masks have no significant effect”
Source: Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, Buck Sexton, Sharyl Attkisson, Anthony Sabatini, Alex Berenson, 2020-11-18 -
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COVID-19 is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than seasonal flu, according to current estimates
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“COVID-19 [is] less deadly than [seasonal] flu”
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2020-09-27 -
IncorrectGreenhouse gases cause global warming by trapping infra-red radiations, not by “causing more holes in the ozone layer”
Claim:
Greenhouse gases emitted into the ocean are causing more holes in the ozone layer … “the ozone layer has holes in it causing global temperature to rise”
Source: Instagram, Otis Holland, 2020-07-11
