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

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    Claim: Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus.

    Verdict: Misleading

    Read the full story at: Health Feedback

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    Lung transplant operation on a COVID-19 patient at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Northwestern Medicine/Handout via REUTERS

    Lung transplant operation on a COVID-19 patient at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Northwestern Medicine/Handout via REUTERS

    Claim: A photograph shows the damage to a person's lung from the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.​

    Verdict: True

    Read the full story at: Snopes

    Factual Reads on Coronavirus

    Latin American scientists join the coronavirus vaccine race: ‘No one’s coming to rescue us’
    Researchers fear that breakthroughs from abroad will be too slow or inequitably shared to benefit the global south.
    -- Nature, June 12

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