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Gargling salt water or vinegar may soothe a sore throat, but it will not eliminate COVID-19
Claim:
Gargling with warm water and salt or vinegar eliminates the virus [SARS-CoV-2]
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Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-03-14 -
Partially correctThe virus that causes COVID-19 can survive on solid surfaces for days, but infection risk from contaminated objects is unknown
Claim:
[SARS-CoV-2] is spreading quickly from gas pumps. Shopping carts as well.
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-03-17 -
InaccurateThe coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is real; the story that claims otherwise is a work of fiction
Claim:
There is no ‘coronavirus’
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-03-01 -
Flawed reasoningGlobal warming and the COVID-19 pandemic are unrelated issues: one will not protect us from the other
Claim:
If we want to protect ourselves from the coronavirus, we must back away from all the climate change efforts we've been making
Source: LifeSite News, Andrea Widberg, 2020-03-17 -
IncorrectVaccines do not cause neurological damage, aluminum levels in vaccines are safe
Claim:
Aluminum in vaccines causes neurological damage and autism
Source: Collective Evolution, Facebook user, Arjun Walia, 2020-02-19 -
Flawed reasoningTemperature trends in the U.S. are consistent with warming around the world, contrary to Electroverse claim
Claim:
Historical data of temperature in the U.S. destroys global warming myth
Source: Electroverse, Cap Allon, 2020-01-22 -
MisleadingNo, the Shanghai government has not recommended intravenous vitamin C as a treatment for COVID-19
Claim:
The government of Shanghai, China has announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with high amounts of intravenous vitamin C
Source: Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Andrew W. Saul, 2020-03-03 -
Mostly accurateLong-term remission of an HIV patient who received a stem cell transplant is the closest so far to a full HIV cure
Claim:
The second person ever has been cured from HIV
Source: BBC, IFLScience, Michelle Roberts, Tom Hale, 2020-03-10 -
Flawed reasoningCO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies
Claim:
CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.
Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2013-06-22 -
IncorrectElectroverse article incorrectly claims the Sun is behind climate change
Claim:
the IPCC is wrong − the sun, not CO2, drove modern global warming
Source: Electroverse, Roger Higgs, 2020-03-11
