The Infodemic: Coronavirus Only Lives Up to 9 Days on Object
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:54 pm
The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 29, 2020.
Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.
Daily Debunk
Claim: The Covid-19 virus cannot survive on an inanimate object for more than nine days.
Verdict: Correct
Read the full story at: Africa Check
Social Media Disinfo
Wilson Primary School in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Circulating on social media: Claim that under the "COVID Act," school officials in the U.S. can quarantine children with COVID-19 symptoms outside their family home without their parents' or guardians' consent.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Snopes
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Coronavirus Doctors Battle Another Scourge: Misinformation
Physicians say they regularly treat people more inclined to believe what they read on Facebook than what a medical professional tells them.
-- New York Times, August 17