Inaccurate
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]
Articles tagged with
Respiratory infections
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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 -
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 -
IncorrectViral claim falsely asserts that COVID-19 is due to 5G technology rollout, not a virus
Claim:
The coronavirus outbreak is not actually caused by a virus, but by 5G technology
Source: YouTube, Dana Ashlie, 2020-02-22 -
InaccurateNo, not every U.S. election year has had a disease outbreak and COVID-19 transmissibility is unconfirmed
Claim:
Every election year has a disease; coronavirus has a contagion factor of 2
Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2020-03-02 -
IncorrectScientific evidence indicates virus that causes COVID-19 infection is of natural origin, not the result of human engineering
Claim:
evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 research being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Source: Infowars, New York Post, Daily Wire, Steven W. Mosher, 2020-02-22 -
-1.5Very lowViral New York Post article perpetuates the unfounded claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 is manmade
Overall, Mosher’s argument is based on unfounded speculation and scientific inaccuracies. Such claims, which continue to be perpetuated even by public officials, have real-world repercussions. Peter Daszak, epidemiologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance who has collaborated with WIV researchers, warned during an interview with the journal Science: “These rumors and conspiracy theories have real consequences, including threats of violence that have occurred to our colleagues in China.”
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UnsupportedVitamin C supplementation does not prevent viral respiratory infections, such as those caused by coronaviruses, in the general population
Claim:
The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C
Source: Health Impact News, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Andrew W. Saul, 2020-01-26
