'But I saw it on Facebook': Hoaxes are making doctors' jobs harder

The news came from a colleague - not a doctor, but someone who works in the emergency room and has seen first-hand the devastation caused by the pandemic. "There is a cure for Covid-19," he said. "It must be true because a doctor friend shared a Facebook post about this cure."

When confronted with the latest, credible scientific evidence - that there is no cure for Covid-19, that the disease has killed more than 180,000 Americans precisely because we have no effective way of averting death for the millions who are infected - he doubled down. "But I saw it on Facebook," he said.