Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.
Daily Debunk
"Discredited scientific paper behind false claims on COVID-5G link," Agence France-Presse, August 7
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Video purporting to show a daughter of Vladimir Putin getting a Covid-19 vaccine shot.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: India.com
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing
Unless Americans use the dwindling weeks between now and the onset of “indoor weather” to tamp down transmission in the country, this winter could be Dickensianly bleak, public health experts warn.
-- Stat, August 10
