President Trump and other world leaders have touted unproven — and sometimes dangerous — claims about the coronavirus. That worries public health experts, who say history has shown that false claims about health can wreak havoc for years.
, saying on Kenya's Citizen TV,"I think from the research it is believed that alcohol plays a very major role in killing the coronavirus."
History has shown that wrong information can wreak havoc for years. South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki obstructed the introduction of lifesaving AIDS treatment in his country because he refused to believe the scientific consensus that HIV caused AIDS. In 2000 at the International AIDS conference, he publicly rejected the accepted scientific wisdom on the cause of AIDS, instead insisting it was caused by the consequences of poverty, including poor nourishment.
Gordie Howe's Miraculous Treatment: Case Study of Twitter User's Reactions to a Sports Celebrity's Stem Cell Treatment"Gordie Howe was an icon," Caulfield says. He played hockey for the Detroit Red Wings. Following a stroke, he went to Mexico in 2014 to receive unproven stem cell treatment. Afterwards, his family reported general improvements in Howe's condition but provided few details. Caulfield's study examined 2,783 tweets about Howe's stem cell treatment.
"The vaccine myth just doesn't die," says Kasisomayajula Viswanath, professor of health communication at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2019,a major threat to world health that could reverse decades of progress in tackling preventable diseases.
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