“A woman was diagnosed with COVID-19, but "[t]urns out it WAS legionnaires disease from the moisture and bacteria in her mask.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 27 Jul 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
A claim is circulating that wearing a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19 could cause Legionnaires’ disease. But that disease is caused by bacteria that festers mostly in warm, standing water, not in human saliva.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 27 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 August 2020, 16 days later. Its rating was “False”.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.