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Daily Debunk
Claim: Vitamin D insufficiency may account for the majority of COVID-19 deaths.
Verdict: Unsupported
Read the full story at: Heath Feedback
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Meme casting doubt on whether it is possible to make a 95% effective coronavirus vaccine in 10 months, when the flu vaccine has been worked on for 70 years and is still only 40% effective.
Verdict: Missing Context
Read the full story at: Reuters
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Despite promise, few in US adopting COVID-19 exposure apps
Fewer than half of U.S. states and territories — 18 in total — have made such technology widely available. And according to a data analysis by The Associated Press, the vast majority of Americans in such locations haven’t activated the tool.
— Associated Press, December 6
