AFTER THE DOCTOR who led the responses against the Covid pandemic in America was brought before a Senate hearing, false claims were shared by an Irish commentator that he had said that Covid was just the common flu. “Admitting, basically, that Covid was nothing more than the common flu”. The video has been viewed more than 60,000 times and shared more than 440 times since it was shared on 30 July. Nor were the mentions of “the common flu” — they were all references to swine, Russian, avian or bird flu. Nor would it make sense for Fauci to say that Covid was “nothing more than the common flu” — it is not a flu.