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Daily Debunk
Claim: "Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers." U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Twitter, November 9.
Verdict: Mostly Accurate
Read the full story at: Health Feedback
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: An image of two lorries transporting coffins has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows preparations for Sri Lanka’s second wave of coronavirus cases in November 2020.
Verdict: Misleading
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is strongly effective, early look at data show
The news comes exactly a week after results from Pfizer and BioNTech, which announced broadly similar results.
-- Stat, November 16
For COVID Drugs, Months of Frantic Development Lead to Few Outright Successes
There have been mixed results as researchers try to stop a disease they are still trying to understand.
-- Scientific American, November 13
