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Daily Debunk
Claim: Homeless people in the United States are among those eligible to receive the $1,400 payments being made under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package.
Verdict: True
Read the full story at: Reuters
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Claim that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration presentation on monitoring the safety of COVID-19 vaccines shows the vaccines are known to cause harmful side effects — including death.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: FactCheck.org
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
‘It’s a very special picture.’ Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine
The decision this week by more than 20 European countries to temporarily stop using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has opened a rift between vaccine safety experts, who say the cases of serious clotting and bleeding that triggered the pause are alarming and unusual, and public health officials concerned that the immunization pause on a continent in the grip of the pandemic’s third wave could take a heavy toll.
-- Science, March 17
