evidence: False information that claims COVID-19 is caused by a bacteria and can be easily treated started spreading by text message, and is now viral on social media. Actually, COVID-19 is caused by a virus and there is no treatment for it. COVID-19 is caused by a virus that was first seen in China at the end of 2019 and has spread around the world, reaching pandemic proportions. There is currently no specific treatment for it or a vaccine to prevent it. [...] The post circulating in U.S. groups claims that Italian authorities "allegedly discovered covid is not a virus, but a bacterium" and that they discovered this when "[t]hey went against the World Health Organization’s \’law\’ that no bodies be autopsied."