Misleading information about Covid-19 spreads through texts and emails—but you can protect yourself from dubious claims and reports
The same coronavirus post kept popping up on my Facebook feed last week. People in my network—a friend’s mom, a college classmate and another “friend,” who I’m not sure I’ve even met in person—had somehow obtained identical symptom and treatment guidance from Stanford University.
There were details about an at-home testing technique involving breath holding, as well as something truly dubious about sipping water every 15 minutes. On March 12, the university said the text was “not from Stanford.”
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