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At a campaign stop in rural Waterloo, Iowa in late August, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst told a crowd of nearly 100 people that she believed healthcare providers were inflating COVID-19 death counts for profit.”These healthcare providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to …
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By Reuters Staff 5 Min Read A photo with over 1,400 shares on Facebook as of Sept. 9, 2020, shows a poster with a conspiracy theory about the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS The post (here) on a Facebook page named UK Lockdown Truth shows an unidentified woman carrying a poster that …
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In recent weeks, I’ve noticed a shift in how people talk about COVID-19. Where once we simply declaimed the various inconveniences and anxieties associated with the coronavirus, I am increasingly told that, in fact, we are all overreacting, that the virus is not that bad. Six months deep into the …
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Mark Wiener vividly remembers the Great Portland Fluoride Battle of 2013. It wasn’t the kind of clash that has so sadly become the nightly norm in parts of Portland these days, but it was definitely a culture war: the City Council moved to fluoridate the water, and some city residents didn’t like …
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Harrison Hawkins has experienced firsthand the insidious spread of QAnon. In early April, he fell in love with a college student who was spiritual and intelligent. She liked to meditate and take hikes. But within months, she began to express anxiety, filling his phone with troubling links and …
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Image via iStock. On Tuesday, Emily Kaiser, who lives in DC and works at a nonprofit in Silver Spring, was on a routine call with a nurse in CVS’s Accordant program, which is designed to support people with rare and chronic diseases. As she did in previous check-ins, Kaiser spoke to the nurse about …
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U.S. President Donald Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years. Perhaps never before, though, has he pushed so many conspiracy theories at one time. With two months to go until Election Day, Trump is simultaneously promoting at least nine baseless conspiratorial tales — about protests, about …
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Pradheep Shanker, a conservative physician and policy analyst, said he encountered resistance to contact tracing from right-leaning officials when he had tried to advocate robust programs in Michigan and Ohio. “Their instinct is to oppose it,” he wrote in an email to POLITICO. The problem extends …
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NIAID director Anthony Fauci in an ABC interview Tuesday addressed a conspiracy theory recently retweeted by President Trump that falsely interpreted CDC data on the U.S. coronavirus death toll. Driving the news: Trump’s post incorrectly claimed that “only 6%” of those listed in the CDC’s tally …
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