Thanks for the kind words.
I don't think Medium does fact checking except perhaps for medical lies.
I'm less polite than you, which is probably wrong, but I believe the only way that article got written is that someone decided to lie, and I am sick unto death of deliberate lies.
Today in the Netherlands they announced a recommendation to wear medical face masks - this after 1% of the population has been infected in the last week or so - and the response to this was a barrage of lying tweets. "Masks reduce oxygen. Masks are proven not to work. Masks are toxic! Masks decrease your immune system." FUCK these people!
Sorry - sorry. My faith in humanity has been sorely challenged in the last few years.