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In response, the French Ministry of Health released a public service announcement debunking this claim, saying "No, cocaine does NOT protect against COVID-19. It is an addictive drug that causes serious side effects and is harmful to people’s health." The World Health Organization also debunked the claim.
The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
Let volunteers take the COVID challenge: Young, healthy, informed people should be allowed to participate in vaccine trials. Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 21 April 2020; 1 Day Sooner, US-UK advocacy organization for human challenge studies of candidate COVID-19 vaccines (25,104 volunteers from 102 countries, as of late May 2020)
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is well established for use in animals and people. [77] The World Health Organization (WHO), [78] the European Medicines Agency (EMA), [79] the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [80] and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) [81] all advise against using ivermectin in an ...
On March 19, Trump falsely claimed the drug chloroquine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19. This led the FDA to say it had not approved any drugs or therapies for COVID-19, and strongly advised people against taking it outside of a hospital or clinical trial, due to possibly fatal side effects. [36]
Relying on surveys and other data, the UN estimated that 1 in 20 adults — a quarter-billion people between the ages of 15 and 64 around the world — used at least one drug in 2014.
The Mexican cartels have become the "one-stop-shop" for processing and distributing nearly all the illegal drugs coming into the U.S. – the synthetic drugs made in China, as well as the cocaine ...
A study in Andrologia found that Google searches relating to a supposed link between vaccination against COVID-19 and adverse effects on fertility increased following the Emergency Use Authorization of COVID vaccines in the United States, indicating that concerns about alleged impacts on fertility are a major contributor to vaccine hesitancy. [39]