Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.
Daily Debunk
Claim: The United States government has stopped COVID-19 relief to Uganda after President Donald Trump said “he can’t fund a dictator.”
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: PesaCheck
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Claim that a recently republished novel by UK PM Boris Johson’s father, Stanley Johnson, is about “a government releasing a deadly virus into the population as cover for population control through a forced vaccine.”
Verdict: Misleading
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Fighting COVID-19 with herd immunity?
Herd immunity is usually achieved with a vaccine. In the fight against COVID, some countries gambled on natural herd immunity, allowing infection to spread. But most scientists say it's dangerous and may not even work.
— Deutsche Welle, November 2
