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Tag: 2019n-CoV

  • 021720-false-ginger-as-cure-for-ncov.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts claiming 2019-nCoV only survives in ‘cold weather,’ salabat a cure NOT TRUE

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 18, 2020 2:35 AM

    This post is false. Don’t believe it.

    2019n-CoV, COVID-19, Health, health misinformation

  • 021220-fake-pgh-to-start-accepting-wuhan-patients.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT open PGH for Wuhan COVID-19 patients

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 16, 2020 5:09 AM

    This story is fake. Don’t believe it.

    2019n-CoV, COVID-19, Duterte

  • 021420-fake-china-to-kill-20k-ncov-patients.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Report claiming China to kill ‘20k’ COVID-19 patients FAKE

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 16, 2020 5:00 AM

    This story is fake. Don’t believe it.

    2019n-CoV, COVID-19

  • 2112020 FAKE nCoV Marikina.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marikina DOES NOT have ‘2 nCoV patients’

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 14, 2020 11:10 PM

    It’s a trick link.

    2019n-CoV, COVID-19

  • coronavirus pandemic.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    Conspiracy theories thrive in info vacuum

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Feb 09, 2020 5:30 AM

    When I read the news report about a 60-year-old American infected with novel coronavirus who died in Wuhan, China Feb. 6, my first thought was, this debunks the conspiracy theory going around that the fast-spreading virus is directed exclusively against the Han Chinese.

    2019n-CoV, conspiracy theory

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