Consuming Garlic Cures Coronavirus

Question

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the current major health crisis in the world. A successful strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is the improvement of nutritional pattern. Garlic is one of the most efficient natural antibiotics against the wide spectrum of viruses and bacteria. Organosulfur (e.g., allicin and alliin) and flavonoid (e.g., quercetin) compounds are responsible for immunomodulatory effects of this healthy spice. The viral replication process is accelerated with the main structural protease of SARS-CoV-2. The formation of hydrogen bonds between this serine-type protease and garlic bioactives in the active site regions inhibits the COVID-19 outbreak. The daily dietary intake of garlic and its derived-products as an adjuvant therapy may improve side effects and toxicity of the main therapeutic drugs with reducing the used dose.

Answer 1

This is false. Link has more information. https://www.who.int/vietnam/emergencies/covid-19-in-vietnam/information/mythbusters

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A complete fact-check would include some background information, sources that are well cited, and further information on why the claim is true, false, exaggerated, etc. Thanks!

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A full fact check would include more about the link provided and how that link itself is fact checked, along with some overview as to what the source is! thanks!

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This is not a thorough or helpful fact check. Although the linked information is from a reliable source from the World Health Organization, it is important to include information on your source for your fact check to be credible. Aside from providing more details on your source, it is also helpful to point out why the claim may be incorrect. For example, although the article provides evidence to show that garlic may be therapeutic to COVID-19 symptoms, it does not provide substantial evidence to claim that "Garlic cures coronavirus".

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This fact check is not complete due to a lack of information, as well as no explanation of the sources being linked. The WHO is a mostly credible research source, so explaining why they posted an incorrect claim would make your fact check much stronger

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This fact check is unforunately not complete as it provides no explanation or analysis regarding the validity of the source. There is no case being made, just a link, which without any explanation is immediately invalid when it comes to an argument. Next time, explain why the information in the linked url supports your theory that the main claim is false.

Answer 2

After reviewing this claim I have come to the conclusion that it is false. While the article provided does come from a decently reliable source, It makes large claims like "This bioactive component alone or in combination with the main therapeutic drug would be an efficient therapy to eradicate SARS-CoV-2 with the lowest side effects and toxicity". This claim is ultimately what led me to believe it was false. I continued on to google to do some research of my own and after pasting the claim into the search engine I was provided with multiple different articles with titles similar to "Fake Coronavirus Cures, Part 2: Garlic Isn’t a ‘Cure’". This article gave evidence from the WHO which stated that “Garlic is a healthy food that may have some antimicrobial properties. However, there is no evidence from the current outbreak that eating garlic has protected people from the new coronavirus.”. Ultimately the claim stated above is false. 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/fake-coronavirus-cures-part-2-garlic-isnt-a-cure/ 

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I believe this to be a mostly effective fact check, although to improve it I'd recommend you omit your "backstory" section in the former half of the fact check. It's important to prioritize the claim made by the original poster, wasting time referring to aspects unrelated to the question and your thought process regarding those unmentioned aspects is muddying the water. FactCheck.org exists as an excellent summation of different sources, but it's important to mention that FactCheck themselves is a summation of research and evidence gathered from different sources across the web (those sources are avaliable at the bottom of the page). I recommend you individually annotate the sources used by FactCheck.

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I appreciate that you included a source from a reliable institution to disprove this claim. I do think to strengthen this fact check, you could further analyze why you believed the original article to be false, or directly linking where WHO disproved it.