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Daily Debunk
Claim: No one has died from the coronavirus.
Verdict: Inaccurate
Read the full story at: Health Feedback
Social Media Disinfo
Claim: The number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide is less than the number of children who go missing in the United States.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Reuters
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Second Coronavirus Strain May Be More Infectious—but Some Scientists Are Skeptical
Researchers question whether a mutated viral strain that infected more cells in a lab dish is necessarily more transmissible among humans
-- Scientific American, July 16
