COVID-19 Pandemic

The Infodemic: Are Symptomless Patients Spreading the Coronavirus?

In this June 9, 2020 photo, a patient has his temperature taken with a non-contact infrared thermometer on arrival at Freshney Green Primary Care Center in Grimsby, northeast England.

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Daily Debunk

Claim: Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus.

Verdict: Misleading

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Social Media Disinfo

Lung transplant operation on a COVID-19 patient at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Northwestern Medicine/Handout via REUTERS

Claim: A photograph shows the damage to a person's lung from the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.​

Verdict: True

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Factual Reads on Coronavirus

Latin American scientists join the coronavirus vaccine race: ‘No one’s coming to rescue us’
Researchers fear that breakthroughs from abroad will be too slow or inequitably shared to benefit the global south.
-- Nature, June 12