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Daily Debunk
Claim: The negative effects of the COVID-19 lockdown are evidence of "genocide."
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Reuters
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: A recipe for a Sri Lankan faith healer's COVID-19 "miracle cure" that purportedly offers “lifetime protection” against the disease.
Verdict: Misleading
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Behind Each of More Than 300,000 Lives Lost: A Name, a Caregiver, a Family, a Story
More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.
-- Kaiser Health News, December 15
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
