On November 17, 2020 web-page Tvalsazrisi.ge published an article titled “You won’t get infected with Covid if you use this easiest method once in three days”. The mentioned article discusses lemon juice and instruction on how to use it, which is featured as a preventive measure against Covid-19 infection.
The article comes with a video from Russian Telecola TV depicting a cut from the interview with Dr. Yosef Wosk. In this video, the doctor recommends disinfection of throat and nasal cavity using lemon juice as a protection from the virus based on his 54-years long medical experience and together with the host calls for viewers to repeat this procedure at home.
Disseminated information as if lemon juice is a preventive measure against COVID-19 is false. It’s one of the COVID-19 related myths that were debunked by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, lemon juice cannot prevent COVID-19. According to BBC, the aforesaid claim is one of the most common coronavirus-related myths.
Source: mythdetector.ge
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