‘Yesterday, 4 Canadians Died of COVID, 7 Italians, 9 Germans, and 1,263 Americans’
A viral post appears to contrast the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States on a single day in August 2020.
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Richard Rose Dies of COVID-19, After Repeated ‘COVID Denier’ Posts
A Facebook user posted repeatedly that he did not believe COVID-19 was a risk; he contracted SARS-CoV-2 and died in early July 2020.
Did Colorado Revise its COVID-19 Death Count from 1150 to 878 — and ‘Admit’ They Were Counting Deaths from Other Causes?
Ongoing rumors that death rates were being inflated during a pandemic crested when Colorado revised state data, but it’s not as sinister as circulating claims suggest.
‘Major Events in USA History that Cause Major Death Tolls’ COVID-19 Chart
A widely-shared chart credited to a Mario Hardy purportedly contrasts a growing death toll from a coronavirus pandemic against myriad events in American history.
CNN ‘Global Death Toll Approaches Three Million People’ Chyron Error
Screenshots of a CNN chyron purportedly transposing the global death toll of COVID-19 with its infection rate spread on social media.
Does the United States Have 4 Percent of the World’s Population and 25 Percent of the Deaths from COVID-19?
A popular tweet about the number of deaths in the United States attributed to the virus attempted to put them into perspective.