[GABS] Fwd: [NFB_of_Georgia] Fwd: COVID-19 - A viral list of dubious coronavirus tips claims to be from Stanford — it isn’t
Armando Vias
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> From: Dorothy Griffin via NFB_of_Georgia <nfb_of_georgia at nfbnet.org>
> Date: March 14, 2020 at 5:22:21 AM EDT
> To: NFB of Georgia List <NFB_of_Georgia at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Dorothy Griffin <dgriffin at nfbga.org>
> Subject: [NFB_of_Georgia] Fwd: COVID-19 - A viral list of dubious coronavirus tips claims to be from Stanford — it isn’t
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> Please read for immediate update.
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> From: McGill, Kay <Kay.McGill at ablegeorgia.ga.gov>
> Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:01 AM
> Subject: COVID-19 - A viral list of dubious coronavirus tips claims to be
> from Stanford — it isn’t
> To: McGill, Kay <Kay.McGill at ablegeorgia.ga.gov>
> CC: Housley, Danny <danny.housley at gatfl.gatech.edu>, Anika Futch <
> afutch at savannahcblv.org>, Jane Boynton <jboynton at garrs.org>
>
>
> Hello everyone, pls read the following. The concern is that there is
> information in the article recently sent that is true e.g. washing your
> hands. Lesson learned – we have to be vigilant regarding info on COVID-19.
>
>
>
> So I am sending this email to the bazillions of people I sent the original
> article to yesterday. My goodness gracious, what times we are living in
> these days!
>
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>
> Thank you, Danny (Tools for Life) and Jane (GaRRS) for this alert!
>
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>
> Hey Kay, just a heads up: the information in the e-mail you shared is a
> hoax.
>
>
>
> https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/theres-a-facebook-coronavirus-post-going-viral-claiming-to-be-from-stanford-dont-believe-it/
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> *Danny Housley*
> Assistive Technology Acquisition Manager
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> Tools for Life
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> A list of dubious coronavirus tips is going viral on Facebook and Twitter,
> as well as spreading through email. It falsely claims to be from the
> Stanford Hospital board and contains advice like “take a few sips of water
> every 15 minutes at least,” to kill the virus. None of these tips have
> anything to do with reality; it is dangerous misinformation.
>
> Stanford confirmed the message did not come from the university. In a
> statement emailed to *The Verge*, Lisa Kim, a media relations specialist at
> Stanford Health, said “A widely distributed email about COVID-19 that is
> attributed to a ‘Stanford Hospital board member’ contains inaccurate
> information. It did not come from Stanford Medicine.”
>
> “Even if the virus gets into your mouth, drinking water or other liquids
> will wash them down through your throat and into the stomach. Once there,
> your stomach acid will kill all the virus,” one tip reads. Loren Rauch, an
> emergency room doctor in Los Angeles who has a master’s degree in
> epidemiology, told *Mother Jones*
> <https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/theres-a-facebook-coronavirus-post-going-viral-claiming-to-be-from-stanford-dont-believe-it/>
> this advice was “totally bogus.”
>
> Another tip tells people to check for the virus by holding their breath for
> 10 seconds. “If you complete it successfully without coughing, without
> discomfort, stiffness or tightness, etc., it proves there is no Fibrosis in
> the lungs, basically indicates no infection,” it adds.
>
> Unfortunately, this is also false. “That can check if you are anxious or
> have respiratory compromise,” Rauch said
> <https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/theres-a-facebook-coronavirus-post-going-viral-claiming-to-be-from-stanford-dont-believe-it/>
> .
>
> The message also says the virus “hates the sun” and isn’t heat-resistant.
> It can be “killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees,” (roughly 78
> degrees Fahrenheit). This is not entirely true. “If something’s in
> sunlight, it’s going to get disinfected pretty quickly, because that’s
> ultraviolet light, just the same type of sanitation we use in hospitals,”
> Rauch told *Mother Jones*. “But just, like, ‘It’s gonna be a warm day
> today. We don’t have to worry about coronavirus,’ I don’t think that’s
> gonna work.”
>
> I received the tips firsthand, in an email from a friend who was sending
> them out in a sincere effort to keep people safe. When I read that I didn’t
> have coronavirus if I could hold my breath for 10 seconds, I felt relieved.
> Then I felt suspicious. I remembered Adi Robertson’s advice for spotting
> fake news
> <https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20980741/fake-news-facebook-twitter-misinformation-lies-fact-check-how-to-internet-guide>:
> if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
>
> So I did what any of us should do if we’re on the receiving end of
> misinformation from a friend or loved one: I told my friend that the tips
> were fake. The most reliable sources of information on the coronavirus
> continue to be the World Health Organization’s
> <https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019> guidance on
> COVID-19, or the Centers for Disease Control’s coronavirus page
> <https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html>.
>
>
>
> Another article from *Mother Jones*
>
>
>
> If you’ve opened Facebook or Twitter in the past few days, you might have
> come across a post <https://imgur.com/5qQSoqc> with alarming information
> about the coronavirus attributed to Stanford University.
>
>
>
> The post goes something like this: People with coronavirus may not show
> symptoms for several days, but if you can comfortably hold your breath for
> more than 10 seconds, you’re probably not infected. You should sip water
> every 15 minutes to wash the virus into your stomach, where stomach acid
> kills it, to prevent the virus from entering your windpipe and lungs. And
> if you have a runny nose, you have a cold, not the coronavirus.
>
>
>
> Most of this is false.
>
>
>
> I emailed Stanford’s office of communications to check the post’s
> authenticity. “The post is not from Stanford,” Lisa Kim at Stanford Health
> Care wrote back. She directed anyone who is confused to the university’s actual
> coronavirus information page
> <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstanfordhealthcare.org%2Fstanford-health-care-now%2F2020%2Fnovel-coronavirus.html&data=01%7C01%7Caweinberg%40motherjones.com%7Ceede403645714facf10508d7c5711684%7C012f9e2f06f14827a96c9a54d367d83e%7C1&sdata=qhI4zZhiYR5sA1mSr3LhJIaTW13YhqOx1JYp5s0QeRk%3D&reserved=0>
> .
>
>
>
> Then I called Loren Rauch, a community ER doctor at Antelope Valley
> Hospital in Los Angeles with a master’s degree in epidemiology, to dispel
> some of the rumors circulating online. The statements in bold are quotes
> from the viral Facebook post, and Rauch’s responses—lightly edited for
> length and clarity—follow.
>
>
>
> “The new coronavirus may not show signs of infection for many days. By the
> time you have fever and/or cough and go to the hospital, the lung is
> usually 50 percent fibrosis.”
>
>
>
> That doesn’t mean anything. Fibrosis is a late scarring process. You may
> have 50 percent of your lung affected by the virus, causing pneumonia or
> fluid in your lungs. But fibrosis—that is not correct.
>
>
>
> If you can breathe fine, do not go to the doctor. Only go if you cannot
> breathe or are very ill.
>
>
>
> “Taiwan experts provide a simple self-check that we can do every morning:
> Take a deep breath and hold it for more than 10 seconds. If you do this
> successfully without coughing, without discomfort, stiffness or tightness,
> there is no fibrosis in the lungs; it basically indicates no infection. In
> critical times, please self-check every morning in an environment with
> clean air.”
>
>
>
> That’s not true. That can check if you are anxious or have respiratory
> compromise.
>
>
>
> “Everyone should ensure your mouth and throat are moist, never dry. Take a
> few sips of water every 15 minutes at least. Even if the virus gets into
> your mouth, drinking water or other liquids will wash them down through
> your throat and into the stomach. Once there, your stomach aid will kill
> all the virus. If you don’t drink enough water regularly, the virus can
> enter your windpipe and then the lungs. That’s very dangerous.”
>
>
>
> Totally bogus. That’s not real.
>
>
>
> “Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids
> with ice.”
>
>
>
> No.
>
>
>
> “If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold. Coronavirus
> pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.”
>
> Editor’s note: On this one, we thought new research might help: A pre-print
> study <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v1> by a
> group of German researchers suggests that upper respiratory tract symptoms
> like runny nose may be more common than previously thought.
>
>
>
> However, the CDC
> <https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.html> still
> emphasizes fever, cough, and shortness of breath as the main symptoms. And
> Whitney Adams, a former pandemic preparedness coordinator and programs
> manager for CARE <https://www.care.org/>, issued a word of caution when
> considering the deluge of non-peer-reviewed research information relating
> to the coronavirus. “While it’s really important for the research
> community, the medical community, public health community keep sharing
> these findings, we should take those with a grain of salt,” she said.
>
>
>
> “It’s not necessarily helpful for people to try to self diagnose based on
> these things that are really hard for even clinicians to understand,” Adams
> said.
>
>
>
> So the short answer is: It’s complicated.
>
>
>
> “This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature
> of just 26/27 degrees Celsius (about 77 degrees Fahrenheit). It hates the
> sun.”
>
>
>
> If something’s in sunlight, it’s going to get disinfected pretty quickly,
> because that’s ultraviolet light, just the same type of sanitation we use
> in hospitals. The temperature in a dryer, for example, would kill
> everything. But just, like, “It’s gonna be a warm day today. We don’t have
> to worry about coronavirus,” I don’t think that’s gonna work.
>
>
>
> “If someone with coronavirus sneezes, it goes about 10 feet before it drops
> to the ground and is no longer airborne.”
>
> The general rule of thumb we’re using is about six feet.
>
>
>
> The bottom line is that “there’s a lot of misinformation floating around,”
> said Adams, who noted she received an email containing the text of the
> false viral Facebook post last week. So to prevent the spread of rumors, do
> the information equivalent of social distancing: If someone posts something
> that sounds even the slightest bit fishy, don’t pass it on.
>
>
>
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