Verdicts

"From this morning we have brought a special drug used in China which is claimed to have resulted in improvements in intensive care patients, cutting their time in care from 11-12 days to four days. The new drugs will be used by COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care units.”

“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish (U. Penn) President Gutmann had heard the COVID-19 mortality rates in the U.S. were just above 0.1 percent, very similar to the seasonal flu, and acted like it.”

“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France in 1920 due to the Spanish influenza.”

“Prokopyeva is suspected of activities aimed at the public justification of terrorism, accomplished with the use of media or online informational-telecommunications networks, including the Internet.”

“The patented nanosilver we have, the Pentagon has come out and documented and Homeland Security has said this stuff kills the whole SARS-corona family at point-blank range. Well, of course it does, it kills every virus.”

Fake coronavirus claims are all over the internet. Below we correct a few claims about the virus origin, diagnosis, prevention and cures.

"The promised 6 billion euros -- they [Brussels] did not release. Now they say they will allocate 1 billion euros. Who are you lying to?”

“Don’t panic. Oil is falling but Russia remains in the black, not allowing its opportunities in the global oil market to be curtailed. Strategically, the decision is the right one. Had we agreed to a bad deal with OPEC (read - with the Saudis) - we would have been thrown overboard and deprived of new income. Now we have a chance not only to extract and sell as much as we need to extract and sell, but also to send American LNG (liquid natural gas) overboard.”

“In sacred places like this, there is no room for viruses, germs or diseases.”

“Joe Biden Campaign rejects ex-FBI director Comey’s endorsement.”

“…[T]he system of thousands of satellites being deployed [by SpaceX] will interfere with the work of astronomers, said astrophysicist Nikolai Samus, a research fellow at the Institute of astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences ... According to data provided by him, 30-40% of astronomical images will be corrupted by the sunlight reflected by Elon Musk’s satellites.”

“Turkish servicemen inside the combat units of terrorist groups came under fire from the Syrian military on February 27 near the town of Behun. According to the data submitted by Turkey to the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, there were no Turkish soldiers near Behun.”