Health
Tuesday 31 March 2020
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@DogSerbia
Twitter account
“In Serbia, the #Covid19 curfew means we can’t walk our dogs for up to 14 hours at a time. It causes so much unnecessary suffering.”
Read more...On March 28, the Serbian government revoked its decision to rule to let people take pets out for a 20-minute evening walk during overnight coronavirus curfew hours. -
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Fehrettin Koca
Turkish Health Minister
"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.”
Read more...Confronting a rising coronavirus contagion, Turkey raised hopes by announcing that China had sent a “new” drug to treat patients. The drug is neither new nor Chinese – it was devised in Japan decades ago to treat the flu. -
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Dominic Gregorio
senior, University of Pennsylvania
“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 more...Colleges and universities have canceled classes or moved them online in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, prompting a backlash from some students. But claims that the disease is like the common cold are false. -
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All across the Internet
“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.”
Read more...The “Scott Fitzgerald quarantine letter” has gone corona-viral in Russian and English. It is a fake – the original was published as satire by the humor website McSweeney’s on March 13, 2020. -
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Channel One
Russian state-owned TV channel
“Well, today we finally managed to see the enemy’s face - the first high-quality photos of the coronavirus appeared.”
Read more...On Feb. 11, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana published high-resolution photos of the novel coronavirus taken with an electron microscope. -
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Alex Jones
Infowars
“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.”
Read more...Among many fake coronavirus cures on the internet was a toothpaste hawked by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His claim that ‘nanosilver’ -- claimed as an ingredient in Infowars toothpaste can kill the virus is unsupported. -
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Everywhere online
Fake coronavirus claims are all over the internet. Below we correct a few claims about the virus origin, diagnosis, prevention and cures.
Source: Social media, internet conspiracy sitesRead more...The coronavirus pandemic has spawned an avalanche of fake news and conspiracy theories about cures, prevention, diagnostics and origins of the virus. We check claims in all four areas. -
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Unidentified Iranian man
“In sacred places like this, there is no room for viruses, germs or diseases.”
Read more...Videos have emerged on social media of men and children in Iran licking and kissing the walls and doors of holy shrines. While they claim the shrines are immune from the coronavirus, Qom is the epicenter of Iran’s COVID-19 outbreak.
