The Infodemic: Are Symptomless Patients Spreading the Corona
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:21 pm
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
Read the full story at: Health Feedback
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
Read the full story at: Snopes
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