The news came from a colleague — not a doctor but someone who works in the emergency room and has seen firsthand the devastation caused by the pandemic. “There is a cure for Covid-19,” he said. “It must be true because a doctor friend shared a Facebook post about this cure.” When confronted with the latest, credible scientific evidence — that there is no cure for Covid-19, that the disease has killed more than 180,000 Americans precisely because we have no effective way of averting death for the millions who are infected — he doubled down. ...
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Coronavirus | Facebook | Fake news
Seema Yasmin Craig Spencer | NYT Last Updated at August 29, 2020 12:22 IST
First Published: Sat, August 29 2020. 12:22 IST
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