COVID Conspiracies

What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack (gidmk.substack.com)) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter (twitter.com/babs_zone), Tiktok (tiktok.com/@babs_zone)) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!

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Links:
• How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ (whowhatwhy.org/culture/journalism-media/how-mu…)
• Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet (buzzsprout.com/1411126/episodes/14642508-covid…)
• Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away (scientificamerican.com/article/nine-covid-19-m…)
• Disinformation and coronavirus (lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/disinformati…)
• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9551662/#bibr…)
• Pain in the Nation (tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TFAH_2022_…)
• Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection? (thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-26…)30116-8.pdf)
• Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7502362)
• Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition (latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-14/wellne…)
• A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation (skyline725.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Vita…)
• Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic? (strathprints.strath.ac.uk/82317/1/Mavroeidi_et…)
• Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It (nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-mich…)
• The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19 (mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-health/truth-ab…)
• The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine (wired.com/story/hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-st…)
• Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research? (webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:…)
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