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Written by: The Conversation
March 30, 2020
Doctors from around the world are reporting cases of COVID-19 patients who have lost their sense ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 27, 2020
A cease-and-desist letter from the Trump-Pence campaign committee accuses stations of "airing a ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 25, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump presented the results of an extremely limited study to suggest a lar ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 23, 2020
A viral Facebook post argues the mutation rate of the coronavirus is responsible for its pandemi ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 20, 2020
Disinformation-spewing online bots and trolls from halfway around the world are continuing to sh ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 19, 2020
Because novel coronavirus is a new type of virus, there is currently no evidence proving that ta ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 19, 2020
The rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic is taking a particularly harsh toll on older people.
Written by: The Conversation
March 19, 2020
A variety of emergency responses and policy strategies have been implemented with different outc ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 18, 2020
Quarantine and isolation laws vary widely, as do the consequences of breaking them.
Written by: The Conversation
March 18, 2020
In which animal species did the virus occur? A bat, a pangolin or another wild species? Where do ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 17, 2020
In the pandemic of 1918, between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representin ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 17, 2020
Confusing and unsubstantiated reports said the United States offered large sums of money to secu ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 17, 2020
In Ireland, there’s still an important religious and cultural component to the holiday, even as ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 16, 2020
One conspiracy theory claims that the CIA invented the term in 1967 to disqualify those who ques ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 13, 2020
Sources linked to Republican and Democratic lawmakers had each accused the other side of politic ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 12, 2020
Climate change deniers are often known to misrepresent innocuous facts and use those misrepresen ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 11, 2020
“Stocking up on toilet paper is a relatively cheap action, and people like to think that they ar ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 10, 2020
Who really is in charge of the outbreak response? As with most things in American government, t ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 9, 2020
In the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak, some “influencers” are claiming that taking mega ...
Written by: The Conversation
March 9, 2020
In their search to identify the most electable candidate, journalists and their readers often lo ...
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