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Daily Debunk
Claim: Insurance companies deny life insurance payouts after people received COVID-19 vaccine.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: USA Today
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Claim that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contains a Bluetooth microchip.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: PolitiFact
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
New report of illnesses at Wuhan lab raises questions about origins of COVID-19
Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the COVID-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.
-- Wall Street Journal (via MarketWatch), May 23
