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Daily Debunk
Claim: A rise in tiny particle air pollutants, known as PM 2.5, will significantly increase the mortality rate of Covid-19 in Thailand.
Verdict: Misleading
Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: Claim that an Australian COVID-19 vaccine trial gave trial participants HIV.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: Reuters
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
COVID vaccine race leaders likely won’t be only ones to reap huge payday
Therapeutics and law expert lays out the economics of this drug development.
— The Harvard Gazette, December 17
