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Daily Debunk
Claim: More Americans have died of COVID-19 than died in World War One, World War Two and Vietnam combined.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: AP Fact Check
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Claim that the World Health Organization (WHO) approved Coronil, an Indian herbal medication, as a Covid-19 treatment.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Andrew Cuomo’s Covid-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic policymaking
The humbling of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on pandemic policy has been spectacular and swift. Within a matter of days, one of America’s most trusted voices in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic became a political pariah.
-- Stat, February 26
