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Checked by PolitiFact2 Jun 2020United StatesHealth
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“Italy “went against the WHO's ‘law’” against COVID-19 autopsies and “discovered covid is not a virus, but a bacterium” that “clots the blood and reduces the oxygen saturation.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Studies show COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, not bacteria. The Italian Ministry of Health still identifies the disease as caused by a virus. WHO never “outlawed” autopsies of patients with COVID-19.