The Infodemic: COVID Vaccines' Approval Process Included Clinical Trials

FILE - A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020.

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Daily Debunk

Claim: Clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccines did not take place.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: Reuters

Social Media Disinfo

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Circulating on social media: Posts claiming a video shows Thailand's health minister crying in fear as a nurse attempts to give him the Covid-19 vaccine.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse

Factual Reads on Coronavirus

Comparing the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson
In an ideal world, a pandemic vaccine could be delivered in a single shot, so supplies could be stretched to cover a lot of people. It would trigger no side effect more significant than a sore arm. And it would be easy to ship and store. Soon, it seems, this ideal of a Covid-19 vaccine will be within reach.
-- Stat, February 2