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Jul 29, 2022 · Article content. Dr. Jeff Matheson was not exactly on message with COVID-19. The Toronto-area physician refused to wear a mask and urged patients to remove theirs, saying they actually did harm.
2 days ago · With access to COVID-19 rapid tests becoming increasingly difficult in Windsor, a former director of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is advising people to do all they can to avoid ...
Sep 14, 2021 · The misinformation — which usually involves inflating the risks of vaccines and offering the false promise of alternative therapies — is coming as cases of COVID-19 surge nationwide, mainly in ...
- Anti-Mask Movement
- Conspiracy Theories
- Problem Won't 'Go Away Any Time Soon'
One source of much debate and misinformation revolves around wearing non-medical masks to prevent the spread of the virus. While the issue isn't as politicized and polarizing in Canada as it is in the U.S., some fringe groups in Canada — such as those in Toronto protesting mandatory mask-wearing— have cropped up. Such groups often espouse beliefs t...
As part of the spread of misinformation and disinformation, a number of conspiracy theories have cropped up surrounding COVID-19 — including those falsely linking COVID-19 to 5G technology and beliefs that coronavirus was developed in a lab or purposefully spread by pharmaceutical companies. Many have been widely debunked. A survey from Carleton Un...
Marmura also said organizing online can make it look like these causes have more support than they actually do, and complicating matters is the fact that groups subscribing to harmful conspiracy theories often cherry-pick their information and can compile "impressive" lists of sources that support their beliefs. The internet, while it can provide a...
Jul 24, 2020 · A British Columbian doctor who was diagnosed with COVID-19 is sharing his story of the lasting effect the novel coronavirus can have.
- Kendra Mangione
Jun 1, 2022 · Li Wenliang (李文亮), MD, was an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, China, who warned several of his colleagues about the appearance of a new SARS-like virus in December 2019, at the very beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Initially reprimanded by a hospital administrator and formally admonished by the local authorities in Wuhan, he was later exonerated by the Supreme People’s Court of the ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Dr. Stella Immanuel, a member of a group America’s Frontline Doctors, which has consistently made false statements about COVID-19, said in a video that went viral in July 2020 that masks weren ...
