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    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​

    A billboard informing about the importance of social distancing, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen on a facade in Stockholm, Sweden April 29, 2020.

    A billboard informing about the importance of social distancing, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen on a facade in Stockholm, Sweden April 29, 2020.

    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

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