Snopes: Everyone is searching for an easy “cure”

Snopes Digest, #7, 31 March 2020:

As the world deals with an ever-more-frightening pandemic, we at Snopes are seeing the resurgence of a classic form of misinformation: Rumors of snake-oil cures and junk medicine have roared into public consciousness, crossing social media feeds and even the White House podium, around the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.

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