IT STARTED WITH one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general practitioner from Putte, near Antwerp. “5G is life-threatening, and no one knows it", according to the website "Wired", which specializes in sharing global news and general media. They said that 5G might be linked with COVID-19 , "It has claimed 9 lives and infected 440 people, almost all of them in the Chinese city of Wuhan", And as of 2019 a couple of 5G towers had been built around the city of Wuhan. 

Some people believe theories about the 5G network, and that the towers started the Coronavirus Pandemic. And because of their ignorance, they believe what they read but they refuse to read the entire post/story/article. Thus they think that the little information they got from reading the simple headline is the truth. And most importantly they aren't analyzing their sources. All of this can make them worried and paranoid. Then they start to spread this misinformation further onto friends and social medias such as Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Doctors helping a patient infected with Covid-19 PHOTO: Pictures uploaded to social media on January 25, 2020 by the Central Hospital of Wuhan show medical staff attending to a patient, in Wuhan, China. Image: Pictures uploaded to social media on January 25, 2020 by the Central Hospital of Wuhan show medical staff attending to a patient, in Wuhan, China.

"I would say this isn't true at all because it sounds dumb that a 5G WIFI tower would spread a virus around humans all over the world" - Lucas

"People who believe these stories are stupid. 5G is a network and thus it has no correlation to COVID-19." - Caspian