According to an authoritative paper published in the Lancet, “COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),” rather than bacteria.

“Many patients with severe COVID-19 present with coagulation abnormalities that mimic other systemic coagulopathies associated with severe infections, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) or thrombotic microangiopathy, but COVID-19 has distinct features.” Thrombosis is a complication of COVID-19, not a cause of it.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a briefing Monday that President Trump has the prerogative to invoke the Insurrection Act to solve the violent protests for supporting George Floyd across the nation.

According to the definition from the Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School, the Insurrection, adopted in 1807, authorizes the president, at the request of a state government, to federalize the National Guard and to use the remainder of the Armed Forces to suppress an insurrection against that state’s government. It further allows for the president to do the same in a state without the explicit consent of a state’s government if it becomes impracticable to enforce federal laws through ordinary proceedings or if states are unable to safeguard its inhabitants’ civil rights. However, the Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the government from using military forces to act as a police force within U.S. borders.

As of now, no governor has requested active-duty military police to assist with the widespread protests. Governors prefer relying on National Guardsmen to de-escalate the tensions.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday that he does not support invoking the Insurrection Act,

Not exactly true nor false as there isn’t a clear estimate of risk of transmission after recovery, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 COVID-19 recovered patients who had tested positive for the coronavirus. However, these patients weren’t found to have spread the virus. The virus samples collected from them indicated the patients were spreading non-infectious or dead virus particles. In addition, scientists found zero new cases among people close to the recovered patients.

According to the CDC, epidemiologists rely on surrogate evidence to approximate when and for how long someone may be infectious to others. “Although a precise estimate of this residual risk of transmission after recovery from COVID-19 illness cannot be generated at this time, it is likely substantially less than the risk during illness,” but the risk is still not eliminated.

It is a typical conspiracy theory. According to the statements from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates committed millions of dollars to research treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic. Bill Gates seeks to build up a digital tracking platform by distributing “digital certificates” to those who have been tested and immunized with vaccines.

Meanwhile, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been funding Microchips Biotech, Inc. to research and develop the birth control microchip for a long time, which aims to “develop a personal system that enables women to regulate their fertility.”

The digital certificates are not equivalent to birth control microchips.

Between 2014 and 2019, the National Institutes of Health gave a grant of $3.7 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a global nongovernmental environmental health organization, who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on a project that studied coronaviruses that originated from bats and the risk of potential transmission to humans.

However, not all of that $3.7 million was spent for the research and projects at the Wuhan Institute Virology. In addition, the grant continued under the Trump administration and was renewed in July 2019.

As a medical journal shows– “A new study is alerting more attention to gonadal function evaluation among patients recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection.” However, this article has not yet been peer-reviewed, and there is no clinical evidence about whether SARS-CoV-2 infection can affect male gonadal function so far.

Authoritative sources such as the UK’s Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority, the British Fertility Society, or the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, have not issued any specific advice on coronavirus and male fertility.

According to a medical journal – “Delayed clearance of SARS-CoV2 in male compared to female patients”– that “females were able to achieve viral clearance significantly earlier than males with a median difference of two days”, based on research on a total of 68 subjects. However, this article has not yet been peer-reviewed.

Data from New York City shows, more male than female patients were killed due to coronavirus. The trend is also reported in China, South Korea, Italy and France and other countries.

“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),” according to a statement from Lysol.

“As with all products, our disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines. Please read the label and safety information.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cautioned that “Never apply the product to yourself or others. Do not ingest disinfectant products.”

“It’s a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN.

The Stafford Act could provide $40 billion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and some other “major disasters” such as earthquakes and hurricanes, but it does not allow the federal government to impose mandatory quarantines across the country.

The National Security Council tweeted, “Text message rumors of a national #quarantine are FAKE.”

According to an article from the New York Times, U.S. officials confirmed the fake Stafford Act lockdown texts were spread by Chinese agents targeting Americans.

Herd immunity was once the official British public health policy against COVID-19. Achieving herd immunity means it would require a significant proportion of the population to be infected and recover from COVID-19. According to estimates and models from scientists, for herd immunity, about 70% of the U.K. population would need to be immune to COVID-19. However, herd immunity would lead the infection rate up to a level that collapses the hospital system in a short term.

WHO recommended that a delay strategy, when combined with surveillance and containment, could be effective in combating the spread of COVID-19. If we rely on herd immunity to protect the most vulnerable people, there would be more 47 million infected people.

Since the national health care was overwhelmed by cases, the British government has switched from herd immunity strategy to suppression techniques.