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India Covid-19: Fact-checking misleading claims on oxygen treatments – Yahoo News Australia
Families affected by Covid in India are being misled by dubious online claims about oxygen treatments.
Oxygen for treating Covid is increasingly hard to find in India, with long queues forming to refill cylinders
As India battles a deadly second wave of the pandemic, its healthcare system has come under severe strain.
Hospitals are experiencing shortages of oxygen for patients and, as people try to get hold of their own supplies, online misinformation has been spreading.
It includes misleading claims about ways to treat falling oxygen levels – one of the symptoms of Covid-19.
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