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No, Morgan Freeman Isn’t Telling People to Stop Taking COVID-19 Tests One way to attract attention to an opinion is to pretend someone popular said it.

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Yes, You Still Need a Booster After Being Infected with Omicron While timelines vary, everyone agrees that vaccinations only help reduce your chances of infection.

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No, Dr. Kerry Chant Didn’t Celebrate the Death of 3 Kids The number of false COVID-19 vaccine death rumors outpaces the number of actually COVID-19 vaccine...

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No, the COVID-19 Vaccine Didn’t Kill ‘Lachlan Leary’ of Australia Australians have been subjected to a flood of COVID-related disinformation since the pandemic began.

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No, Washington State is Not Building Internment Camps for the Unvaccinated A state Board of Health meeting was inundated with comments after claims circulated about them.

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Did Fentanyl Overdose Become Top Cause of Death for Adults Aged 18-45 in the US? An extraordinary milestone went almost unnoticed in December 2021.

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Does This Image Show Innervation of the Teeth? The nerves are said to stem from the brain, then extend around the face before...

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Does Vid Show Seattle First Responders Turning in Boots After Being Fired Over Vaccines? Footage of the alleged protest received more than 3 million online views — and counting.

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Are NY Hospitals Not Letting Unvaccinated Parents Take Their Newborn Babies Home? Current research says that the risk of a newborn getting COVID-19 from a parent is...

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Did Norway Reclassify COVID-19 as the Flu? Social media posts claim the Scandinavian nation stated it was “no more dangerous than the...

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‘Pfizermectin’? Is Pfizer’s New Drug Just Ivermectin in Disguise? "Protease inhibitors" are a class of antiviral drugs that have been used to treat HIV/AIDS,...

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Did a Funeral Home Advertise Using the Slogan ‘Don’t Get Vaccinated’? Photographs of a truck advertising "Wilmore Funeral Home" in North Carolina emerged in September 2021....

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