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Facebook post cites doctors’ widely disputed calculations on COVID-19 death rate
By Bill McCarthy May 7, 2020

“So 2 doctors from Bakersfield discover that coronavirus mortality rate is 0.03%. 13x less deadly than what was previously thought! Their analysis has since been…

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No, churchgoers don’t have to register with the government
May 7, 2020

Under the mayor’s COVID-19 order, Kansas City “churchgoers must register with the government.”

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Facebook post shares flawed COVID-19 survival statistic
By Samantha Putterman May 7, 2020

Says the current survival rate for COVID-19 in the U.S. is “98.54%”

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Do immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in New York City?
By John Pullano May 7, 2020

“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”

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News outlets did not use photo of same boy to report on 3 COVID deaths
By Samantha Putterman May 7, 2020

Media outlets reported that the same boy died 3 times from the coronavirus, in 3 countries.

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Michigan protest photo shows Brian Cash, not Rob Cantrall
May 7, 2020

A photo shows Rob Cantrall at a recent Michigan protest.

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Can’t blame governor for high Pennsylvania gas prices
May 7, 2020

Gas is under $1 in 13 states, but $2.27 in Pennsylvania, because of the governor.

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Lincoln Project’s “Mourning in America” ad critical of Trump misleads on bailouts
By Louis Jacobson May 7, 2020

"Trump bailed out Wall Street, but not Main Street."

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Roswell post fudges the facts on Democrats’ birthdays
May 7, 2020

Prominent Democrats were born in April 1948, "nine months after" a UFO crashed near Roswell, N.M.

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Trump wrong that COVID-19 death projections omit revisions based on social distancing
By Amy Sherman May 6, 2020

Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”

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No, the flu hasn’t killed more people than coronavirus
By Paul Specht May 6, 2020

"We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we've had COVID-19."

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Laura Ingraham wrong about ‘no real scientific basis’ for social distancing
By Bill McCarthy May 6, 2020

"There was no real scientific basis for believing that" social distancing would be necessary, "since it had never been studied."

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