Inaccurate
OSHA recommends using cloth face coverings at the workplace, contrary to claim by Peggy Hall
Claim:
“OSHA says masks don't work and violate OSHA oxygen levels”
Articles tagged with
Coronavirus
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Source: GreenMedInfo, TheHealthyAmerican.org, Peggy Hall, 2020-06-15 -
No, Bill Gates is not funding COVID-19 vaccines as a way to conduct global surveillance or to depopulate the world
Claim:
Bill Gates, founder of harmful vaccination campaigns in developing countries, now plans to use COVID-19 vaccines to surveil the population
Source: The Truth About Cancer, Ty and Charlene Bollinger, 2020-06-13 -
Lacks contextPeople should take precautions against COVID-19 regardless of their blood type
Claim:
“People with blood type O [are] more protected against COVID-19”
Source: The Jerusalem Post, Celia Jean, 2020-06-15 -
IncorrectPeople who do not show COVID-19 symptoms can and do transmit it to others; physical distancing and face masks effectively reduce the risk of transmission
Claim:
The WHO stated that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is “very rare”, therefore physical distancing and face masks are not necessary
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-06-08 -
German Ministry employee makes unsupported claim that COVID-19 pandemic is a global false alarm in widely circulated yet unsolicited opinion article
Claim:
German government leaked document declares COVID-19 is “a global false alarm”
Source: NewsPunch, Baxter Dmitry, 2020-06-02 -
-1.5Very low
People who do not show symptoms can contribute to significant COVID-19 transmission, contrary to CNBC report
there is already “abundant data” showing that people who are not showing symptoms—which could include asymptomatic, presymptomatic, and paucisymptomatic individuals—comprise about 40 to 50% of COVID-19 cases
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Inaccurate
Article inaccurately claims that coronavirus vaccine by Oxford researchers caused animal test subjects to develop COVID-19
Claim:
“Bill Gates’ shoddily-hastened vaccine has been determined to make all animal test subjects get COVID-19 when exposed to the virus“
Source: Montana Daily Gazette, Anonymous, 2020-05-27 -
Unsupported
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Inaccurate
The spread of COVID-19 is not related in any way to the deployment of 5G
Claim:
“5G plays a part in this ‘plandemic’” ... The cases of COVID-19 are “directly related to electromagnetic radiation exposure by 5G”
Source: Gumshoe News, Dee McLachlan, 2020-05-04 -
Flawed reasoning
Facebook posts misinterpret a study of 455 contacts of an asymptomatic COVID-19 carrier to claim that asymptomatic spread does not occur
Claim:
Asymptomatic carriers cannot spread COVID-19; COVID-19 is not contagious; masks are not needed to reduce COVID-19 transmission from asymptomatic carriers
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-05-22
