The media promotes more fiction than fact about contemporary pandemics
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We still don’t know where coronavirus originated. Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) January 30, 2020
I would note that Wuhan has China’s only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/CtuU2czBLp
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Many false posts have a grain of truth amid the lies. @Seana_Davis speaks with a virologist to break down one such post and show you the science. pic.twitter.com/Z1WFc8J4fS
— euronews (@euronews) April 8, 2020
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BBC News - Coronavirus: Is there any evidence for lab release theory? [16 April 2020]
BBC News - Coronavirus: Bogus Jeff Bezos message and other misleading stories unpicked [11 April 2020]
The Guardian - Tech giants struggle to stem 'infodemic' of false coronavirus claims [10 April 2020]
World Economic Forum - A data visualization expert answers 5 key questions on coronavirus graphics [8 April 2020]
BBC News - Coronavirus: North Korea claims to be 'totally free' of virus [3 April 2020]
BBC News - Coronavirus: How a misleading map went global [19 February 2020]
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BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats - The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers [14 March 2020]
The Guardian - Science Weekly - Covid-19: why are there different fatality rates? [17 March 2020]
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