“Says “Ultraviolet Radiation is administered into the body as a disinfectant to kill bacteria and viruses and this has been used for a while now.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 24 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Health experts say there is no evidence that injecting ultraviolet light into the body would kill viruses like the novel coronavirus.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 24 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 April 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.fo/xPDVR#selection-815.0-932.0
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