Not only did a pandemic break out in 2020. There was also an outbreak of a so-called “infodemic” of previously unforeseen magnitude, as information regarding the new corona virus, both accurate and inaccurate, rapidly flooded the Internet. Among the false and misleading information that quickly started to spread, three themes were among some of the most commonly occurring: the origin of the virus, alternative medical advice, cures and treatment and the vaccine. This paper discusses the three themes based upon recent research, and argues that they were each fairly predict-able. Not only was the demand for information regarding the new virus enormous – and understandably so – but the groundwork for misinformation on the differ-ent themes had already been laid. Some of the false information therefore got off to a flying start. The paper concludes that remedies to address this kind of infor-mation suffer from the inherently very high level of uncertainty that follow signifi-cant health emergencies, which in turn sets the bar very high in terms of accurately addressing false claims.