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Trump coronavirus briefing April 23
Trump says N95 masks can be sterilized for reuse. Only in a pinch, experts warn.
By Shefali Luthra April 29, 2020

“We’re also using a sterilization process ― some great equipment that will sterilize masks up to 20 times per mask. So that’s like ordering 20…

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Convalescent plasma therapy showing promise against COVID-19
By Julia Schneider April 29, 2020

“Small trials” to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients “seem to have had some degree of success.”

Did Fauci tell U.S. ‘not to worry about’ coronavirus?
By Warren Fiske April 29, 2020

Dr. Anthony “Fauci told us there’s nothing to worry about. That’s his quote, ‘There’s nothing to worry about.’”

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Ocasio-Cortez didn’t call Jesus and Trump ‘con artists.’ A satire site made it up
By Samantha Putterman April 28, 2020

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared Trump to Jesus, calling both “con artists.”

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UV radiation is not a common way to kill viruses and bacteria in the body
By Daniel Funke April 28, 2020

“Ultraviolet Radiation is administered into the body as a disinfectant to kill bacteria and viruses and this has been used for a while now.”

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No, Sweden is not faring the same as its locked down neighbors
April 28, 2020

“Sweden has zero lockdown” and “is in no worse shape than Denmark or Norway,” which are in lockdown.

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Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Vos sparks legal conundrum with claim to ‘constitutional’ status
By D.L. Davis April 28, 2020

Says as Assembly Speaker he is a "constitutional officer" of Wisconsin.

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Biden plotted to kidnap John F. Kennedy Jr.? Another unsubstantiated conspiracy
By Bill McCarthy April 27, 2020

“Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats."

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Early date on CARES Act is due to a legislative quirk, not a plot
By Louis Jacobson April 27, 2020

The government must have planned the coronavirus pandemic because the coronavirus relief bill had been introduced three years earlier.

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No proof mosquitoes transfer COVID-19 between people
By Amy Sherman April 27, 2020

Mosquitoes can transfer COVID-19 “from person to person”

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Crowded beaches in Arizona? Coronavirus spoof fools the unwary
By Jon Greenberg April 27, 2020

“People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.”

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Chris Larson has no basis to connect spike in new coronavirus cases to election
By Eric Litke April 24, 2020

Says the April 22 jump in COVID-19 cases was related to the election.

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