Experts debunk the COVID-19 claims of Dr. Lee Merritt and the AFLDS

This appeared in The Millennial Source

One source of misinformation is America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), an organization that, despite its name, is not made up of doctors on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.

The world is facing two concurrent pandemics: the first, COVID-19, may finally be reaching a turning point with the introduction of vaccines, though it could still be months before some standard of normalcy is achieved. The second pandemic, an avalanche of coronavirus misinformation, is proving to be far more impervious to treatment and eradication.

Though worldwide deaths from the virus reached two million roughly one year into the pandemic (the global death toll now stands at 2.36 million, with 107.7 million cases), there are many who continue to insist it is nothing serious. From the beginning, skeptics have claimed that COVID-19 is no worse than a flu, even though roughly a billion people get the flu each year and the high end of its death toll is 650,000.

One source of misinformation is America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), an organization that, despite its name, is not made up of doctors on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. The AFLDS is responsible for a viral video last summer that featured nearly a dozen apparent doctors…