This is going to be a running list, updated as needed, of the bogus stuff I’ve seen floating around the internet / social media as it relates to Coronavirus. Sadly, I don’t have time to unpack and explain why/how every false piece of information on this list is false. I wish I did, but I don’t. But, suffice it to say, if it is on this list, it is false.
Despite what you may have heard….
There is no special toothpaste, cream, or hair gel that will kill Coronavirus or keep you from becoming infected.
Using a sauna will not cleanse your body of the virus if you are infected, instead, especially if you have a high fever, it may kill you
It is not the “China Virus”
It was not made in a lab designed to infect humans
It is not “just the flu”
You can’t get rid of the virus by gargling bleach
It is not airborne by attaching to pollen grains
It is not raining coronavirus in highly infected places when it precipitates
It can’t get into the water system through the sewer
Coronavirus is not an ingredient in Lysol nor did the company know “it was coming”
Running a hair dryer up your nose, set to high, to burn off the virus doesn’t work
Hospitals are not asking for hundreds or thousands of dollars – up front – to give Coronavirus tests
5G did not help to mutate COVID-19 to becoming a human-infecting virus
Sitting in the sun, with no sunscreen, to soak up UV radiation will not kill the virus
In hospitalized adult patients with severe Covid-19, no benefit was observed with lopinavir–ritonavir treatment beyond standard care (this is direct from a research paper)
There is currently no medical information to support that Ibuprofen makes COVID-19 more potent
Your pets won’t die if you use hand sanitizer (so long as you don’t let them eat it)
Inhaling steam from hot water doe not kill the virus
Gargling salt water does not kill the virus
Drinking copious amounts of water won’t keep the virus out of your lungs
