By Reuters Staff 10 Min Read Social media users have been sharing posts which seek to undermine the global COVID-19 pandemic by claiming that “3rd world countries” have “basically no deaths” due to COVID-19 and that there have been no deaths among homeless people in America. This claim is untrue: although the health impact of COVID-19 on the least developed countries has thus far been less severe than initially expected, there have been COVID-19 deaths recorded in developing countries as well as among the homeless population in the United States. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS The posts (here , here , here) show a screenshot of a tweet from July 9, 2020 (here), which says, “IF this was actually a deadly GLOBAL pandemic bodies would be PILING UP in 3rd world countries that can’t socially distance & have no sanitation. But there are basically NO deaths occurring there. NOBODY in the media is even curious about this. That’s all I need to know.”