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Misinformation on the virus is proving highly contagious

By DAVID KLEPPER about the crisis through
Associated Press English-language websites.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As Experts worry the torrent of
the world races to find a bad information is dange-
vaccine and a treatment rously undermining efforts
for COVID-19, there is see- to slow the virus, whose
mingly no antidote in sight death toll in the U.S. hit
for the burgeoning out- 150,000 Wednesday, by
break of coronavirus con- far the highest in the world,
spiracy theories, hoaxes, according to the tally kept
anti-mask myths and sham by Johns Hopkins University.
cures. Over a half-million people
The phenomenon, unfol- have died in the rest of the
ding largely on social me- world.
dia, escalated this week Hard-hit Florida reported
when President Donald 216 deaths, breaking the
Trump retweeted a false vi- single-day record it set a
deo about an anti-malaria day earlier. And South Ca-
drug being a cure for the rolina’s death toll passed
virus and it was revealed 1,500 this week, more than Steve, left, and Chris Brophy, husband and wife owners of Brickley’s Ice Cream, look out from the
that Russian intelligence is doubling over the past shop they closed after teenage workers were harassed by customers who refused to wear a mask
spreading disinformation month. or socially distance, in Wakefield, R.I., Wednesday, July 29, 2020.
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