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Years of vaccine research data ignored in coronavirus rant

A speaker at a conference dominated by anti-vaxxers claims scientific research shows vaccines don't work against coronaviruses.

CGTN: China monitors coronavirus mutations to adjust COVID-19 response

BEIJING, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With China loosening its COVID-19 restrictions, some experts have expressed concern that China's relaxation of COVID-19 limitations will enhance the likelihood of the virus mutating. "It is a worry," said CNN, citing William Schaffner, professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville City, Tennessee State, and medical director at the National Foundation...

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FRONTIER BIOTECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES POSITIVE PHASE 1 RESULTS OF ITS FIRST CORONAVIRUS MAIN PROTEASE (MPRO) SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITOR, LAYING FOUNDATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE AND LONG COVID

ATLANTA, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Frontier Biotechnologies, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and dissemination of innovative medicines that improve patient health, announced positive results from the Phase 1 clinical trial of its drug candidate, FB2001 – a small molecule inhibitor of coronavirus main protease (Mpro) – in healthy adult volunteers. The data, presented today at the poster session of the 11th...

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No, this video didn't predict today's coronavirus pandemic in 1956

The viral video is one of many social media sensations that claim to show prophesies of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Coronavirus does not just equal the common cold

A widely-shared Facebook post features a medical text from 1989 and claims that coronaviruses equal the common cold.

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Nobel Prize-winning professor did not say coronavirus was manufactured in China

A post on Facebook claims a Nobel Prize-winning Japanese scientist has said the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the potentially deadly COVID-19 disease was "manufactured" by China.

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US scientist was not arrested for selling coronavirus to China

Claims that COVID-19 is a man-made virus continue to appear on social media, with Facebook post seeking to lay the blame on a United States academic.

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There is no link between NZ's coronavirus lockdown and 5G rollout

A Facebook post claims there is a link between New Zealand's four-week coronavirus lockdown and the installation of 5G towers.

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Italy's COVID-19 situation is dire but a photo of coffins is not from the coronavirus pandemic

Italy is highlighted in a social media post to emphasise the importance of staying home during coronavirus by using a photo of multiple coffins to reinforce the message.

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"Uncle's notes" for guidance on COVID-19 coronavirus treatment are misguided

Accurate advice about COVID-19 is critical during the current pandemic and, as people seek information, a social media post purporting to list symptoms treatments warrants scrutiny.

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Pic of untouched vegan food in supermarket has nothing to do with COVID-19 coronavirus

As people stockpile food and toilet paper over fears of the COVID-19 coronavirus causing disruption in Australia, a Facebook post claims to show vegan foods are being shunned amid the panic buying.

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Social media photos are not of dogs being killed because of coronavirus fears

A social media post claims Chinese officials are killing dogs despite World Health Organization advice that coronavirus is not transmissible between dogs and humans.

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A novel published in 1981 did not predict the 2019 coronavirus

A theory being widely shared on social media posts claims a 1981 novel by best-selling US author Dean Koontz predicted the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak.

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The 2019 novel coronavirus not more deadly than Ebola or HIV

A Facebook post claims that the current 2019 novel coronavirus is more deadly than HIV or Ebola but the statistics for these diseases say otherwise.

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Post makes false claims about coronavirus in foods, at train stations

As authorities work to contain the potentially fatal coronavirus in Australia, misinformation about the outbreak of disease that originated in Wuhan, China has spread quickly across social media.

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The 2019 coronavirus is not a man-made combination of HIV and SARS viruses

The novel coronavirus has triggered multiple false and misleading claims about the origins of the disease outbreak across social media. A new claim is that the infection is a “man-made” combination of the HIV-1 virus and the SARS virus.

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Dettol effective against known strains, not 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Social media users are questioning the origins of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus as it continues to spread after discovering that some Dettol cleaning products “kill” the human coronavirus.

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The WHO has not labelled coronavirus a plague and the virus has not killed 75,000 people

As cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus increase, information on the number of people infected and the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) response to the outbreak continues to spread on social media.

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Crime against humanity claim is 'hyperbolic nonsense'

Recent UN debates have prompted wild claims the global body is voting to include misgendering someone and quoting scripture as a crime against humanity.

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Landmark New Publication: the Forgotten Biochemistry 101 of COVID-19

SALT LAKE CITY, April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TrialSite News features a paper published today in Viruses (Basel), authored by an international team of researchers, including two fellows of their nations' academies of sciences (Colleen Aldous, senior author Wendy Hoy) and others who participated in Nobel prize-honored research (Thomas Borody, Morimasa Yagisawa). The publication reveals how coronavirus biochemistry well-established over past...