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Daily Debunk
Claim: The "mainstream media" were "silent" after 23 elderly people died in Norway after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Verdict: Missing Context
Read the full story at: Reuters
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Video purportedly showing a man fainting after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine in Indonesia’s West Nusa Tenggara province.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
COVID Can Cause Forgetfulness, Psychosis, Mania or a Stutter
The virus induces neurological symptoms that persist long after the pandemic ends.
-- Scientific American, January 21
