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The Infodemic: The West Isn't Waging a 'War' Against Russian Vaccine


FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 file photo, a view of a vial of Russia's experimental Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, in Moscow, Russia. Belarus has started giving shots to volunteers in human trials of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V,…
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 file photo, a view of a vial of Russia's experimental Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, in Moscow, Russia. Belarus has started giving shots to volunteers in human trials of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V,…

Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here​.

Daily Debunk

Claim: "The West has waged a vaccine war over the COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccine. It is a geopolitical confrontation that really has nothing to do with the vaccine. Clinical trials are ongoing and the results are positive." -- Russian defeners of the country's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine

Verdict: False

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Social Media Disinfo

Circulating on social media: Video filmed at UK hospital claims that COVID-19 is a hoax.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: Reuters Fact Check

Factual Reads on Coronavirus

The race to make COVID antibody therapies cheaper and more potent
Injections of antibodies might prevent mild COVID-19 from becoming severe, but the treatments are expensive and difficult to make.
-- Nature, October 28

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