No, the Shanghai government has not recommended intravenous vitamin C as a treatment for COVID-19

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The government of Shanghai, China has announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with high amounts of intravenous vitamin C

SOURCE: Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

Published: 20 Mar 2020

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Long-term remission of an HIV patient who received a stem cell transplant is the closest so far to a full HIV cure

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The second person ever has been cured from HIV

SOURCE: Michelle Roberts, Tom Hale, BBC, IFLScience

Published: 19 Mar 2020

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CO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies

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CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.

SOURCE: Mike Adams, Natural News

Published: 19 Mar 2020

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Electroverse article incorrectly claims the Sun is behind climate change

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the IPCC is wrong − the sun, not CO2, drove modern global warming

SOURCE: Roger Higgs, Electroverse

Published: 18 Mar 2020

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Claim that burning sage purifies the air based on study that burned entirely different plants

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Research shows burning Sage cleans bacteria in the air

SOURCE: Anonymous, MyHighPlains, Spirit Science

Published: 14 Mar 2020

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Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods

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Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization

SOURCE: Thomas Lifson, American Thinker

Published: 12 Mar 2020

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Viral claim falsely asserts that COVID-19 is due to 5G technology rollout, not a virus

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The coronavirus outbreak is not actually caused by a virus, but by 5G technology

SOURCE: Dana Ashlie, YouTube

Published: 12 Mar 2020

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Contrary to viral Facebook claim, numerous studies show vaccines don’t cause autism

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there are no studies that prove vaccines don’t cause autism

SOURCE: Del Bigtree, Joe Martino, The HighWire, Collective Evolution

Published: 11 Mar 2020

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No, not every U.S. election year has had a disease outbreak and COVID-19 transmissibility is unconfirmed

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Every election year has a disease; coronavirus has a contagion factor of 2

SOURCE: Facebook users, Facebook

Published: 07 Mar 2020

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Scientific evidence indicates virus that causes COVID-19 infection is of natural origin, not the result of human engineering

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evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 research being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

SOURCE: Steven W. Mosher, New York Post, Daily Wire, InfoWars

Published: 05 Mar 2020

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