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Daily Debunk
Claim: Coronavirus is being recorded as the cause of death for every person who dies in the United Kingdom.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Reuters
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Sri Lankan social media users share the claim that California's Los Angeles County suspended cremations for people who died after contracting Covid-19.
Verdict: Misleading
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
Americans are dying of covid-19 by the thousands, but efforts to ramp up production of potentially lifesaving vaccines are hitting a brick wall.
-- Kaiser Health News, January 26
Monoclonal antibodies can prevent COVID-19—but successful vaccines complicate their future
[G]iven the success of COVID-19 vaccines and their increasing availability, it’s not clear that the expensive and somewhat cumbersome intervention will be widely used.
-- Science, January 22
