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Confused malcontents swilling Chardonnay while awaiting the Zombie Apocalypse.
7/24/20
In this issue of CoronaCheck, Fact Check revisits the issue of "links" between the Black Lives Matter protests and Melbourne's coronavirus increase. Plus, Andrew Bolt's column on masks is based on outdated advice.
Read more from www.abc.net.au7/24/20
Whether this is true or not, protesters should keep their distance from each other. There are people who have the virus but don't know it (asymptomatic).
8/21/20
Anti-vaxxers have been using official advice from the WA Coroner's Court on assuming the cause of death as COVID-19 as evidence the death rate for the disease is being overstated. But experts point out this is normal practice in line with other causes of death.
Read more from www.abc.net.au9/4/20
Anti-lockdown advocates have been planning a protest for this weekend, using images of packed streets which they say are of a similar recent protest in Berlin. But fact checkers have found them to be sometimes decades old images from the internet.
Read more from www.abc.net.au9/14/20
It's easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don't have the right context, writes Jacques Raubenheimer.
Read more from www.abc.net.au1/19/21
A former Florida public health whistleblower who says she was fired because she refused to manipulate COVID-19 data turned herself in to face a felony computer offense and was released on bail on Monday, Florida officials and media said.
Read more from U.S.1/24/21
Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who promoted an unscientific 'COVID syrup' as a life-long inoculation against the virus, tests positive for coronavirus.
Read more from www.abc.net.au1/27/21
bml00 said:Ms WANNASCRATCHIT
I laughed at that... aw crap, I'm a racist!