US President Donald Trump is the main source of distorted information about the remedies for the coronavirus COVID-19 in the world, according to Western media, citing the results of a Cornell University study..

A team from that university conducted a study based on 38 million articles published in English worldwide between January 1 and May 26, 2020.. More than 522.4 thousand. of these publications have been found to generate or amplify pandemic disinformation.

So, according to the authors of the study, more than half - 295.3 thousand. such publications - in one way or another were connected with the comments of President Trump about the "

In particular, Trump's briefing on April 24 led to an increase in the number of such articles, at which he expressed the idea of \u200b\u200bthe possibility of using disinfectants inside to treat coronavirus..

A similar increase in news stories misinforming the public about the coronavirus pandemic was fueled by statements by the US President about the effectiveness of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19..

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According to the study's lead author Sarah Evanagi, "

The database used by Cornell University covers publications in countries such as the US, UK, India, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and several African and Asian countries..

Cornell University study received partial funding from the Bill \u0026 Melinda Gates Foundation.

Trump repeatedly announced the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients earlier this year.. At the beginning of the pandemic outbreak, he said that he himself started taking the drug because " According to him, he himself asked the White House doctors if he could take this medicine.. The doctors replied that they did not mind.

Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug that has been around for decades. In many countries in recent months, it has been used to treat coronavirus.

Trump also stated that since disinfectants destroy the virus in minutes, it can be killed, for example, by injecting such a drug or by some other method of ingestion.. He also suggested that light and heat should be considered as a treatment..

Later, doctors criticized this idea of \u200b\u200bthe American leader, and Trump himself said that he put forward these proposals with sarcasm..