“Covid19 is a bacterium, easily treated with aspirin and coagulant.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 25 May 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
False claims COVID-19 is caused by a bacteria and can be easily treated started spreading by text message, and is now viral on social media. Actually, COVID-19 is caused by a virus and there is no treatment for it.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 25 May 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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