Daily Debunk
Claim: Android phone users are being signed up for a COVID-19 tracing app by Google without their knowledge.
Verdict: Partly False
Read the full story at: Reuters
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Tweets linking 5G and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: The Verge
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
China Vowed to Keep Wildlife Off the Menu, a Tough Promise to Keep
The government has moved slowly to permanently stop the sale and consumption of wild animals in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, raising fears the practice may continue.
-- New York Times, June 7
Coronavirus weekly: racism, COVID-19, and the inequality that fuels these parallel pandemics
The protests against systemic racism and police violence sweeping the globe highlight the intersection between two pandemics: COVID-19 and racism.
-- The Conversation, June 5
How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again
STAT ... asked 11 experts in infectious disease, epidemiology, and pandemic preparedness how to avoid the mistakes, poor decisions, and incompetence of this spring.
-- Stat, June 5
Does drug touted by Trump work on COVID-19? After data debacle, we still don't know
Hydroxychloroquine was shown in laboratory experiments earlier this year to be able to block the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, but this effect has not been replicated in rigorous trials in people.
-- Reuters, June 4
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
Complaints by officials at odds with body’s public praise of Beijing’s response to outbreak
-- Guardian, June 2
Antibody injections could fight COVID-19 infections – an infectious disease expert explains the prospects
[H]ow can we isolate and produce neutralizing antibodies in large enough quantities to serve everyone who needs them, including research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies?
-- The Conversation, June 1
The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories
Analysts are tracking false rumors about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.
-- Nature, May 27
The coronavirus pandemic moved life online – a surge in website defacing followed.
It appears that websites of small businesses, social clubs and private individuals are being disproportionately targeted by hackers.
-- The Conversation, May 26
The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide
Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
-- Nature, April 28
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