Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here​.

Daily Debunk

Claim: The CDC revised down the number of COVID-19 deaths.

Verdict: False

Read the full story: BuzzFeed​

Social Media Disinfo​

Circulating on social media: The claim that Sweden has "zero lockdown” and “is in no worse shape than Denmark or Norway,” which are in lockdown.

Verdict: Mostly False

Read the full story at: PolitiFact

Factual Reads on Coronavirus

Three potential futures for Covid-19: recurring small outbreaks, a monster wave, or a persistent crisis
What all three scenarios agree on is this: There is virtually no chance Covid-19 will end when the world bids good riddance to a calamitous 2020.
-- Stat, May 1