“COVID-19 is not a respiratory virus of any kind. It is actually venom poisoning.”
What FactCheck.org found
The COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a novel coronavirus, first isolated in Jan. 2020. But a viral video has been spreading a conspiracy theory that the pandemic has actually been a plot to poison people with snake venom.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bryan Ardis (Retired chiropractor) made this claim around 11 April 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 April 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Bryan Ardis has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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.