Covid - Misinformation is death [aususuk 1353.145]

'Complete inaccuracies': Viral Facebook post about COVID-19 tests debunked

A post shared widely on Facebook, which screenshotted and annotated a government website to claim that COVID-19 tests cannot distinguish between COVID-19 and a cold, measles or ebola, has been debunked.

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5/23/20

A Microsoft crop circle, C.S. Lewis, and other COVID-19 misinformation

In this issue of CoronaCheck: an image of a Microsoft logo etched into a field has been found to be fake by fact checkers. The image was being used to promote the conspiracy theory that founder Bill Gates made the novel coronavirus.

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5/26/20

Testing of Donald Trump's preferred COVID-19 drug hydroxychloroquine suspended by WHO

The World Health Organization stops trials of the malaria drug after a paper in a top medical journal warns that those taking it are at higher risk of heart problems and death.

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5/26/20

Fact check

Was Barnaby Joyce correct about snake bites killing more than COVID-19?

In March, former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said deaths by snake bite outnumbered COVID-19 deaths by a factor of 30 to 40. But coronavirus moves quickly, so how do the figures stack up now?

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5/28/20

Mailbox misinformation: The COVID-19 infodemic battle is taking place offline too

Amid the COVID-19 infodemic online, a double-sided pamphlet containing a raft of coronavirus misinformation has reportedly been dropped in a Melbourne letterbox. RMIT ABC Fact Check debunks some of its claims.

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6/5/20

'The Lancet's got a bit of form, here': How did a retracted study on hydroxychloroquine get through peer review?

Influential medical journal The Lancet has retracted its heavily-criticised study into hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by Donald Trump as a "game changer" in the fight against coronavirus. So how did the paper slip through the cracks?

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6/13/20

No, wearing a face mask doesn't cause carbon dioxide toxicity

Claims that face masks can be detrimental to health or hurt the immune system have proliferated on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping fact checkers busy.

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6/16/20

How influencers went over to the dark side of wellness

Social media influencers are sharing conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter alongside smoothie recipes. But why?

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6/16/20

Malaria drug taken by Donald Trump for coronavirus withdrawn by US regulators

Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective for patients with COVID-19 and could cause heart complications, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

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7/2/20

I'm a doctor and scientist. These are the treatments for COVID-19 that actually work

With a vaccine for coronavirus still to be found, this is what is known about which treatments work against the disease, and which don't, writes William Petri.