How to distinguish fakes about coronavirus from the truth

Now the news about coronavirus is coming from everywhere. Everyone wants to hear and say something encouraging or even vice versa. As a result, there has been so much talk about the pandemic that the voices of real experts are simply lost.

Everyone is sharing information about COVID-19: military historians, IT specialists and fiction writers. The Internet is full of absolutely unreliable rumors and speculation. Some of the coronavirus myths are quite funny - for example, that COVID-19 distributed by via 5G waves. Or that he can be overcome with baby urine and cocaine. But others don't look so absurd, and many people are willing to take them at face value.

Especially dangerous are the misconceptions spread by reputable and authoritative TV presenters, journalists and politicians, which many are used to believing. Sometimes even people involved in medicine say nonsense. For example, a dentist on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship off Yokohama, Japan, became famous for his upbeat

What is the general coronavirus? The usual flu is. Temperature, runny nose. It would be better not to go somewhere, but to lie down, lie down in the cabin, drink hot tea with raspberries or vodka with pepper, and that's it. Any virus would go away.

Sergey Popov, dentist, from an interview with RT

Sounds sobering, good advice for alarmists. But a second. Why is the dentist talking about how to treat a viral infection? Real infectious disease specialists and virologists from WHO do not agree with him - they claimthat alcohol does not protect against COVID-19 and may, conversely, be dangerous. Even from vodka hand sanitizer do not do.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to tell the truth about COVID-19 from speculation.

Did you find any statement that sounds convincing? Google who owns it. If the one who said it is an epidemiologist, that's okay.

If a person became an expert on the coronavirus epidemic only with the arrival of this very epidemic, stop reading him and forget what he said. Do not let yourself be fooled and do not spread unverified information.

Be critical, follow recommendations World Health Organization, observe isolation and you will be fine.