Table 2.
Respondents interacting with rumors regarding treatment of the Corona virus according to sex.
| Rumors | Sex |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female |
Male |
Total |
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| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Cocaine use and drinking alcohol | Fake | 722 | (96.3) | 723 | (96.4) | 1445 | (96.3) |
| Real | 28 | (3.7) | 27 | (3.6) | 55 | (3.7) | |
| Nasal spray, mouthwash and garlic every 15 minutes | Fake | 328 | (43.7) | 306 | (40.8) | 634 | (42.3) |
| Real | 422 | (56.3) | 444 | (59.2) | 866 | (57.7) | |
| Sprinkle the skin with alcohol or chlorine | Fake | 450 | (60.0) | 427 | (56.9) | 877 | (58.5) |
| Real | 300 | (40.0) | 323 | (43.1) | 623 | (41.5) | |
| Ultraviolet lights | Fake | 662 | (88.3) | 657 | (87.6) | 1319 | (87.9) |
| Real | 88 | (11.7) | 93 | (12.4) | 181 | (12.1) | |
| Hand dryers | Fake | 593 | (79.1) | 585 | (78.0) | 1178 | (78.5) |
| Real | 157 | (20.9) | 165 | (22.0) | 322 | (21.5) | |
| Total | 750 | (100.0) | 750 | (100.0) | 1500 | (100.0) | |