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- Health
Posted on: 2021-10-04
Article by OffGuardian, ZeroHedge claiming to list 30 facts about COVID-19 contains multiple inaccurate and misleading statements

Claim:

“There has been NO unusual excess mortality” related to COVID; “Lockdowns do not prevent the spread of disease”; “Masks don’t work”; “PCR tests were not designed to diagnose illness”

Source: Zero Hedge, OffGuardian, Kit Knightly, 2021-09-22
Inaccurate
- Health
Posted on: 2021-05-27
PCR tests on vaccinated and unvaccinated people are evaluated using the same criteria; the CDC didn’t change criteria for detecting infection in vaccinated people, as alleged in OffGuardian article

Claim:

The U.S. CDC is “lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected ‘breakthrough infections’” to decrease the number of officially recorded cases

Source: Gateway Pundit, OffGuardian, Zero Hedge, Kit Knightly, 2021-05-18
Inaccurate
- Health
Posted on: 2020-07-12
People have died from the coronavirus, contrary to article claiming to report pathologist’s “revelations” on COVID-19

Claim:

“no one has died from the coronavirus”

Source: OffGuardian, Patrick Corbett, Rosemary Frei, 2020-07-02

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