VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Prolonged mask use DOES NOT cause hypoxia
It’s been debunked by several public health experts and WHO.
It’s been debunked by several public health experts and WHO.
Early this month, a study went up on the pre-print server bioRxiv. In it, the research team builds the case for “the emergence of a more transmissible form” of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic. Mutations, essentially tiny changes to the virus’ genetic code, may reflect on the overall structure of the spike protein.
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President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in his previous late night speeches: that the novel coronavirus is airborne, and that China has registered the highest death toll.
Hindi tama ang rekomendasyon ni Health Secretary Francisco Duque III na uminom ng maraming tubig at panatilihing basa ng lalamunan bilang proteksyon laban sa new coronavirus.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III inaccurately recommended that drinking lots of water and keeping one’s throat moist can be a protection against the new coronavirus.
As the Duterte government scrambles to cope with the fast-spreading novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV, the Department of Health (DOH) announced Feb. 5 the third confirmed patient in the country: a 60-year-old tourist from Wuhan City, China, the center of the virus outbreak.
Manila Vice Mayor Sheilah “Honey” Lacuna-Pangan, a former physician at the Manila Health Office, is wrong in saying the correct way of wearing a surgical mask depends on whether one is sick or wants to be protected against germs or virus.