“The world has been trying to treat Covid-19 incorrectly and patients are being misdiagnosed with pneumonia.”
What TheJournal.ie found
It’s wrong to say that Covid-19 patients have been wrongly diagnosed with pneumonia. It has been proven that many patients with Covid-19 have developed pneumonia – so while blood clotting and thrombosis-related conditions are increasingly being researched as illnesses identified in patients, that doesn’t mean medics don’t need to treat patients for pneumonia.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 May 2020. TheJournal.ie (Ireland) looked into it and published its finding on 22 May 2020, 21 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by TheJournal.ie, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.