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Wearing more than one surgical mask will help prevent infection from the novel coronavirus.

According to medical experts, people can protect themselves if they wear a mask correctly. Wearing additional ones will not work, but will be a waste of resources and may even make it more difficult to breathe.
Supplies from Shanghai Huashan Hospital, including vital items for medical workers, had been "stolen and had disappeared" after being sent to Wuhan, Hubei province

The hospital said the rumored disappearance and theft of the supplies was incorrect, adding that they had been delivered to Wuhan several hours after the medical workers from Shanghai had arrived in the city. The supplies had then been taken to hotels where medical staff members were staying.
Hormone therapy leaves novel coronavirus patients disabled.

According to the latest version of the guideline on diagnosis and treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia released by the National Health Commission, doctors should be quite careful and cautious in the application of glucocorticoids - hormones that inhibit inflammation - to patients infected with the virus.
Five allegations are featured in the video. One claims that the novel coronavirus was manufactured and leaked from a research lab in China.

In this video, we refute some of the most inaccurate claims to better inform people about the realities of the outbreak.
I should disinfect my clothes and everything when I get back home.

If you're not in the infected areas, that might be slight overkill. Since the virus is primarily spread through the air and respiratory droplets, the likelihood of directly coming into contact with it is much lower.
Novel coronavirus can be transmitted via mosquito

The rumor that mosquitoes are likely to transmit the novel coronavirus has gone viral on social media.
Seafood can spread novel coronavirus, since the virus originated from a seafood market.

The novel coronavirus has no connection with seafood, and seafood won't transmit the virus. People can eat seafood and go to seafood markets, but should avoid contact with wild animals.
Xinjiang's vocational education and training centers face dissemination risks of the novel coronavirus.

There is no risk of large-scale coronavirus infections in vocational education and training centers in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, as trainees have graduated, Ilijan Anayt, spokesman for the Xinjiang government, said.
The novel coronavirus can stay in the hair, so people must disinfect and wash the hair after going out.

There are certain conditions for people to get infected with the novel coronavirus, such as the amount of the virus in droplets or viral activity. And the novel coronavirus is sensitive to heat and ultraviolet rays. Therefore, it's nearly unlikely for people's hair to be contaminated with droplets containing high concentrations of active virus in public places.
Recycled subway tickets can transmit novel coronavirus.

The major routes of transmission are still through respiratory droplets and direct contact, so it's highly unlikely that recycled subway tickets are contaminated with the virus.

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