Multiple Facebook posts shared repeatedly in October 2020 claim that a Sri Lankan opposition party offered quarantine facilities and financial support for those infected with the novel coronavirus. The claim is false; on October 20, 2020, a spokesp
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AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts promote false conspiracy that coronavirus testing patent was submitted in 2015
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim that a person named Richard A. Rothschild filed a patent for novel coronavirus tests in 2015. The claim is false; the image shows a supplemental application that was filed in 2020 following the sub
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates online that suspected coronavirus patients fled bus after road accident in Sri Lanka
A photo has been shared repeatedly in multiple Facebook posts and in an online article alongside a claim it shows suspected coronavirus patients fleeing a quarantine centre-bound bus after a road accident in Sri Lanka. The claim, however, is mislea
Health Feedback→ No evidence that coronavirus genetic sequences were fabricated, contrary to preprint by Li-Meng Yan and colleagues
REVIEW Uncertainty surrounding the origin of the novel coronavirus has provided fertile ground for breeding conspiracy theories, some of which Health Feedback previously found to be inaccurate and unsubstantiated (see here and here). The recent clai
Logically→ The US was “expected to lose 2,200,000 people and maybe more than that” from the coronavirus.
The Trump administration quoted this figure from a March report which predicted the estimate "in the absence of any control measures"
Logically→ 85% of the people that wear masks catch Coronavirus.
President Trump misleadingly quoted the CDC report. The report does not state that 85% of the mask wearers contract COVID-19.
AFP Fact Check→ New hoax shared in Sri Lanka suggests WHO approved water, salt and vinegar remedy for coronavirus
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Instagram and Facebook in Sri Lanka claim that drinking lots of water or gargling warm water mixed with salt and vinegar can prevent novel coronavirus infection. The claim was shared alongside an image that shows a W
Snopes→ Coronavirus Vaccine: What We Know So Far
A survey of how a COVID-19 vaccine will work, the progress a leading vaccine is making, and what challenges there will be to manufacturing and rolling a vaccine out when ready.
Snopes→ After Independent Coronavirus Test, NBC Sets Trump Town Hall
The announcement sets up dueling events with Democratic opponent Joe Biden, who will appear in a town hall on ABC, on a night the two candidates were supposed to meet for their second debate.
Poynter→ No, face masks don’t ‘collect’ the coronavirus
If your time is short The post inaccurately summarizes a CDC report. In reality, the report found a correlation between regular mask wearing and lower COVID-19 transmission. Scientific studies have consistently found that face-mask use is one of the mo
AFP Fact Check→ False Facebook posts misrepresent suicides recorded in Australian state of Victoria during coronavirus lockdown
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim the Australian state of Victoria recorded the same number of suicides in September 2020 during a coronavirus lockdown as it did for the whole of 2019. The claim is false; the Victorian Suicide Reg
Poynter→ Trump says he may now be ‘immune’ to the coronavirus. Here’s what we know about COVID-19 and immunity.
If your time is short Scientists have been working hard to understand COVID-19, but there’s still a lot they don’t know about immunity after recovery, and how long it lasts. Longer immune responses are associated with more serious illness. There’
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates online in October 2020 about travel ban and curfew in Sri Lanka after discovery of coronavirus cluster
Multiple posts shared hundreds of times on Facebook and WhatsApp in early October 2020 claim Sri Lanka banned all vacation and pilgrim travel until 2021 following the discovery of a new coronavirus cluster. The claim, however, is misleading; as of Oct
AFP Fact Check→ Patients are not getting coronavirus from the flu shot
Instagram posts claim that the influenza vaccine will give patients the coronavirus. This is false; the chart provided as evidence is from a study which did not find that the flu shot is spreading the deadly virus, and Immunize Canada and the British C
Logically→ The president was informed about the airborne nature of Coronavirus on January 28th.
President Donald Trump admitted he knew that the virus was airborne weeks before the first confirmed Coronavirus death in the country. President Donald Trump admitted he knew that the virus was airborne weeks before the first confirmed Coron
Snopes→ Did Trump Say Doctors Had ‘Never Seen a Body Kill Coronavirus Like My Body’?
President Trump did say that he felt great after leaving Walter Reed Military Medical Center— but not this great.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say Doctors Have Never Seen A Body Kill Coronavirus Like His, Nor That He Has ‘USA’ Instead Of DNA
In a video update on his medical condition, did President Donald Trump say he has "USA" instead of DNA and that doctors never saw a body kill coronavirus the way his does? No, that's not true: There is no record of Trump saying that and h
The Dispatch→ Is the Government Going to ‘Force a Coronavirus Vaccine on Everyone?’
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Poynter→ After contracting COVID-19, Trump was dinged by platforms for spreading coronavirus misinformation
PolitiFact and MediaWise are teaming up to debunk misinformation about the coronavirus crisis. To have Coronavirus Facts delivered to your inbox weekly, click here. This edition of Coronavirus Facts is coming to you a day early because… well… *gest
Snopes→ CDC Says Coronavirus Can Spread Indoors in Updated Guidance
The top U.S. public health agency said that the coronavirus can spread more than 6 feet through the air, especially in poorly ventilated and enclosed spaces.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sen. Thom Tillis Contracted The Coronavirus And WAS Unmasked During Part Of The SCOTUS Rose Garden Event
Did Sen. Thom Tillis contract the coronavirus despite wearing a mask at the White House Rose Garden event announcing President Trump's Supreme Court nominee? No, that's not true: Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, was seen wearing
Washington Post→ Trump kept saying victory over the coronavirus was near. Then he got sick.
Month after month, as the death toll climbed, the president has proclaimed that success was just around the corner. Here's a sampling of his remarks.
Snopes→ Top Trump Aide Hope Hicks Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Hicks is the closest aide to Trump to test positive so far.
Full Fact→ A Covid-19 diagnostic test won’t pick up other coronaviruses
A post on Facebook makes a number of claims about the Covid-19 pandemic, centring on the assertion that Covid-19 tests do not test for Covid-19 specifically, but any coronavirus, including ones which cause “nothing more than cold/flu like symptom
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates online that video shows Thailand’s exiled former PM giving speech on economic impact of coronavirus pandemic
A video has been viewed more than two million times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim it shows Thailand's exiled former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, giving a public speech about the economic impact of the nov
AFP Fact Check→ Trump, Biden trade claims on coronavirus response in first debate
In their first televised debate, Democratic challenger Joe Biden accused US President Donald Trump of concealing the danger posed by the coronavirus and of having no plan to combat it, while the White House incumbent hailed his administration’s respo
Snopes→ Worldwide Grief: Death Toll from Coronavirus Tops 1 Million
Now, 8-1/2 months after an infection doctors had never seen before claimed its first victims in China, the pandemic’s confirmed death toll has eclipsed 1 million.
Snopes→ Virginia Governor, Wife Test Positive for Coronavirus
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, the country’s only governor who is also a doctor, has previously been criticized by some Republican lawmakers who say his restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the virus are too stringent.
AFP Fact Check→ Fake UK health service graphic promotes coronavirus pandemic denial on social media
A graphic has been shared repeatedly in multiple posts on Instagram and Facebook in September 2020 that purports to show advice published by the UK’s health authority, the National Health Service (NHS), stating Covid-19 does not exist. The clai
Snopes→ ‘Unfathomable’: US Death Toll from Coronavirus Hits 200,000
The number of dead in the U.S. is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 67 days.
Logically→ CDC retracted its claim on coronavirus spread.
CDC first posted, and then retracted its take on how the coronavirus spreads from person to person through small droplets in the air.
AFP Fact Check→ Old Myanmar navy photos recirculated with false anti-Bengali claim during coronavirus pandemic
Four photos have been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim they show Myanmar’s navy "shooting Bengalis" to prevent them from entering Myanmar with the novel coronavirus. The claim is false; the photos were origin
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Early Statements About the Coronavirus
President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden have made competing claims about Biden’s early statements on the coronavirus. Following the disclosure of comments he made to journalist Bob Woodward in March about downplaying
Snopes→ CDC Changes, Then Retracts, Its Take on Coronavirus Spread
The top U.S. public health agency has stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person on small droplets in the air.
AFP Fact Check→ AFP photo of Indian migrant workers leaving Delhi falsely circulated as ‘Myanmar people fleeing to Thailand after coronavirus outbreak’
Five photos have been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts that claim they show people fleeing Myanmar and crossing the border to Thailand because of the coronavirus. The claim is false: two of the images -- one of which was taken
AFP Fact Check→ False claim circulates online that Australian TV network predicted coronavirus cases in state of Victoria
An image has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Instagram posts that claim it shows Australian television network 7 News accurately predicted coronavirus case numbers for the state of Victoria on Sunday, September 13. The claim
Snopes→ Does Wearing Glasses Protect You from Coronavirus?
Researchers in China have found that people who wear glasses appear to be at lower risk of catching COVID-19.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Spread Of Novel Coronavirus IS A Pandemic
Is it true that COVID-19 is not a pandemic? No, That's not true: The rapid global spread of COVID-19 fits both the dictionary definition of pandemic and has also ticked enough of the boxes necessary for global and national public health o
Logically→ Russia’s Coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V will be available for public use by the end of 2020.
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has set a timeline to prepare around 100 million doses of Sputnik V in India before 2021.
AllSides→ Report Resurrects Baseless Claim that Coronavirus Was Bioengineered
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/report-resurrects-baseless-claim-that-coronavirus-was-bioengineered/