A report by NY Attorney General Letitia James charged that the nursing home death count could be off by about 50%.
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Snopes→ How to Counter COVID-19 Misinformation on Chinese Social Media
Conspiracy theories and misinformation are global phenomena that affect people’s perceptions of other countries.
Snopes→ Did Biden Ban Saying ‘China Virus’ With Executive Order?
The U.S. president condemned increasing xenophobia against Asian Americans during the pandemic.
Snopes→ COVID-19 Variant from South Africa Detected in US for 1st Time
The two cases don't appear to be connected, nor do the people have a history of recent travel, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said.
Snopes→ Should Pregnant Women Avoid COVID-19 Vaccine?
This is an excellent question to ask your health care provider.
Snopes→ Is China Using Anal Swabs to Test for COVID-19?
Maybe wearing a mask isn't such a bad idea after all.
Snopes→ Did Fauci Say Wearing Two Masks Is Better Than One?
The quote in question came after several variant strains of the coronavirus were found to be highly transmissible and potentially more dangerous.
Snopes→ Is Oklahoma Trying To Return $2M Worth of Hydroxychloroquine?
Gov. Kevin Stitt defended the purchase in April, saying the money spent "will not have gone to waste in any respect."
Snopes→ Did a Californian Die Hours After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine?
Authorities are investigating, but say it is too soon to tell if the death was causally related to the coronavirus immunization.
Snopes→ Biden to Reopen ‘Obamacare’ Markets for COVID-19 Relief
The order would reopen HealthCare.gov to allow those who lost jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic to enroll.
Snopes→ Is Germany Planning To Put Quarantine Violators in Detention Centers and Refugee Camps?
A feature in the German Sunday paper Welt am Sonntag asked every federal state in the country if it had a facility or a plan to detain repeated quarantine offenders.
Health Feedback→ Frequency of deaths in elderly individuals after COVID-19 vaccination wasn’t higher than the frequency in those who weren’t vaccinated
REVIEW Baseball legend Hank Aaron passed away at the age of 86 on 22 January 2021. Aaron was among several civil rights icons to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on 5 January 2021. Motivated by the wish to show the African-American community tha
Poynter→ 10,300 documented falsehoods in 12 months: the CoronaVirusFacts Alliance enters its second year
Today, the International Fact-Checking Network is honoring the one-year anniversary of the CoronaVirusFacts Alliance – the global collaborative project launched by 99 fact-checking organizations from more than 70 countries. The alliance is the larges
Snopes→ Mexican President Tests Positive for COVID-19, Symptoms Mild
“The symptoms are mild but I am already under medical treatment," Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tweeted.
Health Feedback→ Most positive COVID-19 PCR test results are true positives; WHO information notice didn’t change threshold or criteria for a positive COVID-19 test
REVIEW Claims aimed at discrediting the COVID-19 PCR test and by extension, public health responses to the pandemic including the wearing of face masks, have repeatedly made their appearance over the course of the pandemic. An Information Notice reg
Snopes→ Job Losses from Virus 4 Times As Bad As ’09 Financial Crisis
The United Nations agency noted that most people who lost work stopped looking for a job altogether.
Snopes→ Did Amazon Wait To Help Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine?
Anonymous Twitter accounts accused Amazon of playing politics with its offer to help the Biden administration distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
Snopes→ Did Biden Violate His Own Mask Mandate?
This argument appears to be based on a willful misunderstanding of Biden's new mask policy.
Health Feedback→ Too early for conclusions on long-term COVID-19 immunity, but some findings suggest that immune memory against the virus lasts for up to eight months and possibly longer
SUMMARY This article, published on 6 Jan. 2021 by MIT Technology Review, titled “COVID-19 immunity likely lasts for years”, reports the findings of a study led by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. The article received more th
Snopes→ How To Interpret That ‘1 in 8 Recovered COVID Patients Die’ Study
The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, has troubling implications. But headlines focusing solely on deaths miss the broader point about "long COVID."
Snopes→ Biden to Sign Virus Measures, Requires Mask Use to Travel
President Biden has vowed to take far more aggressive measures to contain the virus than his predecessor.
Snopes→ ‘Shameful’: US Virus Deaths Top 400K As Trump Leaves Office
“Everything about how it’s been managed has been infused with incompetence and dishonesty, and we’re paying a heavy price,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University
Poynter→ U.S. fact-checkers expect new debates over policy as Joe Biden prepares to take office
U.S. fact-checkers are planning for a smooth transition from their work fact-checking the outgoing Trump administration to new claims about coronavirus relief, immigration and economic policy coming out of the soon-to-be inaugurated Biden administratio
Snopes→ ‘Shameful’: US Virus Deaths Top 400K as Trump Leaves Office
As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term in January 2020, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had the virus “totally under control.”
Health Feedback→ People who received the COVID-19 vaccine aren’t more likely to develop facial paralysis than people who didn’t receive the vaccine
REVIEW To date, there have been 95 million cases and two million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. To curb the spread of the disease, several governments initiated massive vaccination campaigns using some of the recently developed and approved vaccine
Snopes→ A New COVID-19 Challenge: Mutations Rise Along with Cases
Each new infection gives the virus a chance to mutate as it makes copies of itself, threatening to undo the progress made so far to control the pandemic.
Health Feedback→ VAERS reports alone don’t demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccines caused adverse events; evidence does not indicate vaccines caused Bell’s palsy and deaths
REVIEW An article published in mid-January 2021 by Children’s Health Defense, an organization which opposes vaccines, claimed that thousands of adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine, including deaths, were reported in December 2020. The o
Snopes→ California Urges Stop to 300K Vaccines after Some Fall Ill
California’s state epidemiologist is urging a halt to more than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations using a Moderna vaccine version because some people received medical treatment for possible severe allergic reactions.
Snopes→ Did Ice Cream Test Positive for COVID-19?
Considering its cold temperature and fatty ingredients, one virologist said ice cream could harbor conditions for the virus to survive.
Health Feedback→ Strong evidence lacking to support claim that ivermectin is a cure for COVID-19 ; there are only limited clinical results at this stage
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the world since early 2020 sparked an intense research effort to uncover cures for it. To date, scientific and general public media outlets presented several molecules as possible cures for COVID-19, such
Snopes→ Was Kissing Through Handkerchiefs Advised During 1918 Pandemic?
"Want to Kiss and Escape Grip? Use Handkerchief!"
Snopes→ Biden Unveils $1.9T Plan to Stem COVID-19 and Steady Economy
“We not only have an economic imperative to act now — I believe we have a moral obligation,” President-elect Joe Biden said in a nationwide address.
Snopes→ US Unemployment Claims Jump to 965,000 As Virus Takes Toll
Before the pandemic, weekly applications typically numbered around 225,000.
Snopes→ Was ‘America’s Frontline Doctor’ Simone Gold at US Capitol Attack?
Readers may remember Gold from the notorious "White Coat Summit" of 2020.
Snopes→ US COVID-19 Deaths Hit Another One-Day High at over 4,300
The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States is closing in fast on the number of Americans killed in World War II
Snopes→ Was ‘I Am Legend’ Set in 2021?
And was the "zombie outbreak" caused by a vaccine?
Health Feedback→ Vaccines protect people from diseases, but don’t always prevent disease transmission; research ongoing to determine if COVID-19 vaccines stop transmission
REVIEW A YouTube live stream recorded on 5 January 2020, featured David Martin, who claimed that the COVID-19 RNA vaccines are not vaccines because they don’t fulfill the definitions of a vaccine according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a
Snopes→ Second Lawmaker in Lockdown Tests Positive for COVID-19
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said she has tested positive and criticized Republican members of Congress who declined to wear a mask when it was offered to them during the lockdown.
Snopes→ Gorillas Test Positive for Coronavirus at San Diego Park
Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the coronavirus in what is believed to be the first known cases among such primates in the United States and possibly the world.
Snopes→ Scam in New York City Urges Residents To ‘Pre-Register’ for COVID-19 Vaccine
Scammers are targeting New York residents with fake promises about early COVID-19 vaccine access.