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HOAX: 5G does not cause Covid-19
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FALSE: Covid-19 cannot spread in warm weather
Covid-19 can be transmitted in all areas, regardless of climate.
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Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Principal Research Associate with the Malaria Epidemiology Group.
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Infectious Disease and General (Internal) Medicine registrar.
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Physician and clinical researcher focused on managing infectious diseases.
Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifiques.
FNRS Senior Research associate and leads the Spatial epidemiology Lab.
ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York.
Founder and director of ICAP and an international expert in epidemiology.
Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Researcher on interventions for improved detection and access to HIV/TB treatment.
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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A marketing company created groups that fuelled fearmongering and conspiracies.
Facebook shuts down Egyptian disinfo network, bans two marketing companies
More than 1,700 assets targeting people in Middle East and North Africa removed.
Unverified narratives about virus origins spreads across the U.S.
Infodemic worsens as unverified claims about Covid-19 dominate media coverage
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