“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, Artin Massihi, Daniel Erickson, 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 -
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Little 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 -
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The 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…
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Eating alkaline food cannot prevent or cure COVID-19
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The pH for the coronavirus varies from 5.5 to 8.5. What we need to do to defeat the coronavirus is to consume more alkaline foods above the virus’ pH level.
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-04-15 -
InaccurateNobel laureate Luc Montagnier inaccurately claims that the novel coronavirus is man-made and contains genetic material from HIV
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this coronavirus genome contained sequences of another virus […] the HIV virus (AIDS virus)
Source: Zero Hedge, Gilmore Health News, Luc Montagnier, 2020-04-16
