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Covid - Misinformation is death World Wide WTF?
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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?
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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?
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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?
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
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.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
7/13/20
There are conspiracy theories undermining Melbourne's COVID-19 testing blitz
While testing is ramping up to detect COVID-19, misleading information is circulating social media about how - and whether - the tests detect the virus.
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