The Infodemic: Have Snakes Killed More People Than COVID-19?
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 3:14 pm
A woman passes a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery adorned with tributes to victims of COVID-19, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in New York. The memorial is part of the Naming the Lost project which attempts to humanize the victims who are often…
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Daily Debunk
Claim: More people have died this year from snake bites than from COVID-19.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: RMIT ABC (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Fact Check
Social Media Disinfo
The drug hydroxychloroquine, pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump and others as a possible COVID-19 treatment, is displayed by a pharmacist at the Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S., May 27, 2020. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
Circulating on social media: Claim that hydroxychloroquine is the same as quinine and can be made at home.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Reuters