{"id":99774,"date":"2020-12-17T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/the-infodemic-bells-palsy-among-trial-participants-likely-unrelated-to-pfizer-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:21:35","slug":"the-infodemic-bells-palsy-among-trial-participants-likely-unrelated-to-pfizer-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/the-infodemic-bells-palsy-among-trial-participants-likely-unrelated-to-pfizer-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infodemic: Bell&#8217;s Palsy Among Trial Participants Likely Unrelated to Pfizer Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here\u200b.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Daily Debunk<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Claim:<\/strong> Four Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial participants developed facial paralysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> Missing context<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story at:<\/strong> USA Today<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Social Media Disinfo<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure>\n<p><img alt=\"Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/69F5B2A9-7BFA-4103-B638-F3C1015035B5_w250_r0_s-1.jpg\"\/><\/p><figcaption>Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Circulating on social media:<\/strong> A video claiming the optional microchip that could be contained within the syringes label of the eventual COVID-19 vaccine \u201cwould give officials information on who has and has not been vaccinated\u201d and \u201ctrack the location of the patient.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> Partly false<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story at: <\/strong>Reuters<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Factual Reads on Coronavirus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Misting the White House between administrations won\u2019t kill Covid-19 \u2014 and it could be harmful, experts say<\/strong><br \/>[P]rominent expert organizations are clear: misting or fogging disinfectants is not a good way to fight Covid-19.<br \/>&#8212; Stat, December 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here\u200b. Daily Debunk Claim: Four Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial participants developed facial paralysis. Verdict: Missing context Read the full story at: USA Today Social Media Disinfo Screenshot Circulating on social media: A video claiming the optional microchip that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}