Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.
Daily Debunk
Claim: Liverpool is preparing to open military-manned "COVID isolation camps" to stop virus outbreaks.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Reuters
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: A photo of an article reporting that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “admits there is no Covid-19.”
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results
[M]ost of the efforts are being developed in siloes and trained on limited datasets, raising crucial questions about their reliability.
— Stat, November 18
