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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: COVID-19 tests are compiling people's DNA.

    Verdict: False

    Read the full story at: USA Today

    Social Media Disinfo

    FILE PHOTO: A member of the staff holds the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Abercorn House Care Home in Hamilton, Scotland, Britain December 14, 2020.

    FILE PHOTO: A member of the staff holds the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Abercorn House Care Home in Hamilton, Scotland, Britain December 14, 2020.

    Circulating on social media: Video that includes false information about COVID-19 vaccines, such as a suggestion that that one hundred volunteers died following a clinical trial.

    Verdict: False

    Read the full story at: Reuters

    Factual Reads on Coronavirus

    The coronavirus at 1: A year into the pandemic, what scientists know about how it spreads, infects, and sickens
    The coronavirus behind the pandemic presents some vexing dualities.
    -- Stat, December 14

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