A viral Facebook meme misrepresents why hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine fell from favor and remdesivir became the next great COVID-19 hope.
A number of purported exemption “passes” or badges circulated on social media during the coronavirus pandemic, all falsely asserting that individuals could skirt local mask-wearing orders by citing HIPAA.
After Musk expressed scientifically and medically controversial COVID-19 opinions, screenshots of an old pro-science tweet he purportedly once sent circulated.
A University of Southern California professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics claimed that social distancing is ineffective.
Tacking “hmmm” onto a false statement about the purpose of quarantine doesn’t make this meme any less purposefully obtuse.
A tweet from pundit Bill Mitchell asserted that COVID-19 was no big deal compared to H1N1, but he included questionable figures about infection and mortality rates to make his point.
