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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: COVID-19 cases have spiked at various times of the year, not only near elections. The
The Associated Press reported on a false claim online that Bill Gates is backing efforts to cut down 70 million acres of trees to fight global warming. There is no
“There’s no biologically plausible or credible reason why spikes would be linked with election seasons,” Dr. Emily Smith, an epidemiologist and assistant professor of emergency medicine and surgery at Duke University, wrote in an email to the AP. Although there is no formal definition of a spike, it can be characterized as the peak of a consistent increase in cases, said Dr. Janak Patel, director of the department of infection control and healthcare epidemiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Cases did spike close to the 2020 presidential electio...
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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts.