claim: #verificamos: itaperuna no tuvo el 99% de los pacientes con coronavirus recuperados
summary: the news went viral in brazil that 99% of people positive to the new coronavirus, in the city of itaperuna (near rio de janeiro) had been cured with chloroquine and successfully so. the claim, however, was completely fabricated: even though treatments with chloroquine were being experimented on in the city, no such high success rate was reported
subject_description: claim that 99% of patients positive to the new coronavirus in the city of itaperuna (near rio de janeiro) were successfully cured using chloroquine
Motive_Description: give hope that a cure to covid-19 might finally have been found
author_description: general public
keywords: coronavirus, itaperuna, rio de janeiro, brazil, cure, chloroquine, success, 99%