“If the coronavirus gets in your mouth, "drinking water or other liquids will WASH them down through your esophagus and into the stomach. Once there in tummy ... your stomach ACID will kill all the virus.”
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Claim dated 6 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 March 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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